Instances screen details

Overview screen details

The overview screen shows the current list of instances. You can expand each instance to view more details. See Status and severity icons for additional information.

Screen component Description
State

State of the instance.


[IMPORTANT: ]

IMPORTANT: Do not use the CloudSystem Console or the CloudSystem Portal to change the state of virtual machines that were instantiated using the Enterprise Cloud Service Management Console.


Active

Instance is available for use.

Error

An error prevents the instance from running.

Suspended

Instance is temporarily not running, and the content of the virtual machine is stored in memory (RAM).

Paused

Instance is temporarily not running.

Stopped

Virtual machine is powered off and the action was initiated by the system.

Shutoff

Virtual machine is powered off.

Resize pending

Instance is being resized.

Created

Date and time that each virtual machine instance was created.

Image

Name of the image used to create each virtual machine.

IP addresses

IP address(es) assigned to the instance. Each instance can be assigned one IP address for each network associated with the instance.

Flavor

Name of the flavor used to define the resource sizes assigned to each instance.

Hosted on

Compute node on which each virtual machine is running.

OS type

Operating system derived from the image and assigned to each virtual machine. See Edit Image.

OS description

Description of the operating system derived from the image and assigned to each virtual machine. See Edit Image.

vCPU

Number of processor units (cores) allocated to each virtual machine, based on the selected flavor.

Memory (GB)

Memory allocated to each virtual machine, based on the selected flavor.

Boot disk (GB)

Size of memory set aside for booting each virtual machine, based on the selected flavor.

Instance ID

The Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of the instance.

Create image screen details

Screen component Description
Image name

A unique name to identify the image.

Data type:

A maximum of 255 characters. All characters (alphanumeric, spaces, and special characters) are accepted.

Description

Optional description of the image.

Data type:

A maximum of 255 characters. All characters (alphanumeric, spaces, and special characters) are accepted.

Instance actions

Screen component Description
Create image

Create an image from a snapshot of an instance. See Create image from a snapshot of a virtual machine.

Start

Start an instance, if the virtual machine is Suspended, Started, or Stopped. See Start instance.

Reboot

Soft reboot, which performs a shutdown and restart of the virtual machine software; or hard reboot, which forces a power cycle.

Instances in a Shutoff state can be started using the Reboot action. See Reboot instance.

Delete

Delete an instance. See Delete instance.

See also