Virtual Machine Management

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:

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

• Add to a Cluster (private cloud only): You can add the created VM to an existing cluster if needed.

• Start: Re-start a VM.

• Stop: Stop a running VM.

• 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. 

• Install VM Agent (private cloud only): Lets newly registered hosts to establish communication with HCP and install the agent.

• 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. 

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

• 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:

1. Login to your HCP account.

2. 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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3. We've listed the VM operations you can performed based on VM states in the table below.