Overview
The HyperCloud™ Platform (HCP) lets you manage your Virtual Machine (VM) lifecycle. The VM management User Interface allows owners to perform various operations as mentioned below:
Information: The Operations mentioned below are enabled or disabled based on applicability, selection, and the cloud provider.
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Terminal: Opens the Linux Terminal to a VM, for issuing a command.
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Add to a Cluster (private cloud only): You can add the created VM to an existing cluster if needed.
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Start: Re-start a VM.
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Stop: Stop a running VM.
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Destroy: Delete a VM. You'll not be able to delete a VM if your administrator has enabled the Termination Protection feature. A deletion request has to be approved by a Tenant Administrator.
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Install VM Agent (private cloud only): Lets newly registered hosts to establish communication with HCP and install the agent.
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Resize: Lets you resize a VM. Clicking Resize opens up a warning message that your CPU and memory may either increase or decrease. You can only increase the Disk size using Resize.
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Change Owner: This is a ROLE_VM_CHANGEUSER role-based feature and lets Tenant Administrators change the VM Owners.
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Test Connection: You can test the connection between your VM and the HCP portal. You can only test a connection if you have a HCP VM agent installed on your VM.
Perform a VM Operation
To perform an operation on a VM:
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Login to your HCP account.
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Navigate to Service Orchestration > Services > VMs > Click on the ':' next to a VM record, to open the operations drop-down list.
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We've listed the VM operations you can performed based on VM states in the table below.
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Stopped |
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Connected |
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Started |
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Resized |
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Information: To learn about
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HCP VM agent, refer to the article on CMP VM Agent.
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Termination Protection, refer to the article on [CMP] Termination Protection.
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