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Overview

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The Cloud Management The HyperCloud™ Platform (CPMHCP) lets you manage your Virtual Machine (VM) lifecycle. The VM management User Interface allows owners to perform various operations as mentioned below.:

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Information: The Operations mentioned below are enabled or disabled based on applicability, selection, and the cloud provider.

  • Terminal

    Terminal:

    opens

    Opens the Linux Terminal to a VM, for issuing a command.

  • Add to a Cluster (private cloud only):

     We

     You can add the created VM to an existing cluster if needed.

  • Start:

     re

     Re-start a VM.

  • Stop:

    stop

    Stop a running

    VM 

    VM.

  • Destroy:

    delete

    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. 

  • Install VM Agent (private cloud only):

    lets newly

    Lets newly registered hosts to establish communication with

    CMP

    HCP and install the agent.

  • Resize:

    lets

    Lets you resize a VM. Clicking Resize opens up a

    Warning

    warning message that your CPU and memory may either increase or decrease. You can only increase the Disk size using Resize. 

  • Change Owner:

      is

      This is a ROLE_VM_CHANGEUSER role-based feature and lets Tenant Administrators change the VM Owners. 

  • Test Connection:

    Test

    You can test the connection between your VM and the

    CMP

    HCP portal. You can only test a connection if you have a

    CMP VM

    HCP VM agent installed on your VM.

Perform a VM Operation

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To perform an operation on a VM:

  1. Login to your

    CMP

    HCP account.

  2. Navigate to Service Orchestration > Services > VMs > Click on the ':' next to a VM record, to open the operations drop-down list.

    Operations on VMImage RemovedOperations on VMImage Added
  3. We've listed the VM operations you can performed based on VM states in the table below.

     

VM states

Lifecycle operations

Stopped 

  • Start

  • Destroy

  • Resize 

Connected 

  • Stop

  • Destroy

  • Test Connection

  • Change Owner 

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Started

  • Stop

  • Destroy

  • Test Connection 

Resized

  • Start

  • Stop

  • Destroy

  • Test Connection 

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Information: To learn about

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  • HCP VM agent, refer to the article

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  • on CMP VM Agent.

  • Termination Protection, refer to the article

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