Managing instances

Your instance can be managed using the buttons at the top of the machines details page:

View VM in browser

This allows you to view your SPICE/VNC session using your web browser. SPICE is the preferred connection method as it provides some key advantages over VNC such as improved performance, clipboard support and USB pass-through. The connection method can be changed under the Input/Output section of your template.

Note

We recommend using a dedicated SPICE/VNC client for the best user experience over the web interface version.

Save As template

While the instance is powered off you can save it as a template allowing you or others to bring up the same templated instance multiple times.

Lock/Unlock menu

Locking an instance stops others users who also have access to the instance from making any changes to the configuration or state of the instance. The user that initiated the lock will be the only one who can unlock the machine.

Suspend menu

Suspend where the VM state is saved in the running Host. When a suspended VM is resumed, it is immediately deployed in the same KVM host by restoring its saved state.

Stop which will gracefully shuts down a running VM, sending the ACPI signal, the VM state is saved to later resume it. Unlike Suspend This frees up the KVM hosts resources that had been allocated to the instance.

Power menu

Power Off Gracefully powers off a running VM by sending the ACPI signal. It is similar to suspend but without saving the VM state. When the VM is resumed it will boot immediately in the same Host.

Power Off Hard Same as above but the VM is immediately powered off. Use this action when the VM doesn’t have ACPI support.

Undeploy Gracefully shuts down a running VM, sending the ACPI signal. The Virtual Machine disks are transferred back to the system datastore. An undeployed VM can be resumed, and the scheduler will choose which KVM host to re-deploy it to meaning you may have to change you Remmina/virt-viewer configuration for that instance.

Undeploy Hard Same as above but the running VM is immediately destroyed.

Note

Undeploy is similar to Suspend but is useful for a long term pause as it frees up KVM host resources.

Reboot menu

Reboot Gracefully reboots a running VM, sending the ACPI signal.

Reboot Hard Same as above but the VM is immediately rebooted. Use this action when the VM doesn’t have ACPI support.

Labels

This feature enables the possibility to group different instances under a given label and filter them.

The list of defined labels will be shown in the left navigation menu. After clicking on one of these labels only the resources with this label will be shown in the table. These filters are also available in the cloud view when creating an instance to easily select a specific template.

You can also create a label hierarchies, using the ‘/’ character. For example, you could have the labels ‘Linux/Ubuntu’ and ‘Linux/CentOS’. Please note that a resource with the label ‘Linux/Ubuntu’ is not automatically added to the parent ‘Linux’ label, but you can do it explicitly.

The padlock icon next to a created label allows you to make a label persistent, these types of labels will not be deleted even when they have no associated resources.

Terminate menu

Terminate Gracefully shuts down and deletes a running VM, sending the ACPI signal. Once the VM is shutdown the KVM host is cleaned, and persistent and deferred-snapshot disk will be moved to the associated datastore.

Terminate Hard Same as above but the VM is immediately destroyed. Use this action instead of terminate when the VM doesn’t have ACPI support.