[CMP] Virtual Machine Details

Overview

Once you create a new Virtual Machine (VM) on the Cloud Management Platform (CMP), you can view the configuration of your VM in detail. To view your VM configuration details:

1. Login to your CMP account.

2. Navigate to Service Orchestration > Services > My VMs > Click a VM to view details of your VM.

VM details are available in the form of tabs below.

Overview

You can view these VM details:

• Name and IP of the VM

• Instance Type

• Owner of the VM

• Security Group and Blueprint of the VM

• Resource Pool that the VM belongs to

• VM Agent Install: to know more about this feature, refer to the article on Cloud Management Platform (CMP) VM Agent. You can install the VM Agent using these commands: 

  • Execute this command as root on Linux/RHEL/Cent on your OS host
    /bin/yum -y install curl || /usr/bin/apt-get update && /usr/bin/apt-get -y install curl; curl -Ls https://repo.skygrid.cloud/snapshot/6.5.2/LATEST/agents/hcp_linux_agent.sh | bash -s https://repo.skygrid.cloud/snapshot/6.5.2/LATEST 95633832-7071-4344-9f03-0d03f3522173 52.170.147.166 5671 docker.skip

  • Execute this command as an Administrator on your Windows host
    powershell.exe -Command "Invoke-WebRequest https://repo.skygrid.cloud/snapshot/6.5.2/LATEST/agents/hcp_agent_install_windows_test.ps1 -OutFile hcp_agent_install_windows.ps1 ; & .\hcp_agent_install_windows.ps1 https://repo.skygrid.cloud/snapshot/6.5.2/LATEST 95633832-7071-4344-9f03-0d03f3522173 52.170.147.166 5671 docker.skip "

• VM Stats: view the Status and Creation Date of your VM.

• Lease: view the VM Lease Duration and the Expiry Date set by your Administrator.

• Termination Protection: this feature protects a VM from accidental deletion. You'll need Tenant Administrator approvals to delete a VM.

• Size: you can view these details: 

  • Memory: view status for used and percentage used memory out of the total memory.

  • Disc: view status for used and percentage used storage out of the total storage.

  • CPU: view details for the number of core processors in a VM.

Timeline

You can view these details:

• VM Status and Logs from the time of creation

• Detailed VM logs in detail. To view a log in detail, click view execution logs

• User, Date, and Time for a VM task

Monitoring

You can view these details:

• Graph, Pie-charts, and Utilization details for these resources:

  • CPU

  • Memory

  • Disk

• Detailed resource utilization view for Daily, Hourly or Custom time periods.

System Info 

You can view these details:

• System Info: details of the Operating System (OS) on the VM

• CPU Details
  

  

• Primary Network details of the VM

• CPU utilization statistics

• VM Memory statistics
  

  

Compose

The CMP portal comes bundled with automated and self-service Infrastructure and Application provisioning features.

• To generate a YAML-based Machine Compose template, click Machine Compose.

  • You can use this as your standard template.

  • You can set the granular controls and share the template with your Users.

Plugin

You can run Plugins on your VMs. Plugins let you send controlled updates to your VMs and Containers. The plugin framework relies on custom scripts like BASH, PowerShell, Puppet, Perl, Ruby or Python.

Recommendations

The Recommendations tab is optional. You can enable or disable recommendations via Feature Preference section. Our intelligent CMP portal provides VM recommendations. These recommendations are based on:

• Actively searching your regional Cloud Provider landscape for price inefficiencies

• Identifying alternative and cheaper VM configuration choices

Schedule

You can define the VM Start and Stop Schedule via Schedule tab. To know more about VM scheduling refer to the article on VM Start & Stop Scheduling.

Tagging

Yo can tag your Cloud Resources using Tags. Tagging a resource lets you monitor and manage your resources via the CMP portal. To know how to use this feature, refer to the article on Cloud Resource Tagging.