129 lines
5.3 KiB
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129 lines
5.3 KiB
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE section [
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<!-- Some useful entities borrowed from HTML -->
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<!ENTITY ndash "–">
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<!ENTITY mdash "—">
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<!ENTITY hellip "…">
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]>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
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xml:id="dashboard_launch_instances">
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<title>Launch and manage instances</title>
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<para>Instances are virtual machines that run inside the
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cloud.</para>
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<para>You can <link
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linkend="dashboard_launch_instances_from_image">launch an
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instance</link> from the following sources:</para>
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<itemizedlist><listitem><para>Images uploaded to the OpenStack Image Service, as described
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in <xref linkend="dashboard_manage_images"/>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Image that you have copied to a persistent volume. The instance
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launches from the volume, which is provided by the
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<systemitem class="service"
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>cinder-volume</systemitem> API through iSCSI.</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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<?hard-pagebreak?>
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<xi:include
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href="section_dashboard_launch_instances_from_image.xml"/>
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<?hard-pagebreak?>
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<section xml:id="ssh-into-instance">
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<title>Connect to your instance by using SSH</title>
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<para>To use SSH to connect to your instance, you use the
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downloaded keypair file.</para>
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<note>
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<para>The user name is <literal>ubuntu</literal> for the
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Ubuntu cloud images on TryStack.</para>
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</note>
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<procedure>
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<step>
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<para>Copy the IP address for your instance.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>Use the <command>ssh</command> command to make a
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secure connection to the instance. For
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example:</para>
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<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>ssh -i MyKey.pem ubuntu@10.0.0.2</userinput></screen>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>At the prompt, type
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<literal>yes</literal>.</para>
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</step>
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</procedure>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="track_usage">
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<title>Track usage for instances</title>
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<para>You can track usage for instances for each project. You
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can track costs per month by showing metrics like number
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of vCPUs, disks, RAM, and uptime for all your
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instances.</para>
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<procedure>
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<step>
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<para>Log in to the dashboard, choose a project, and
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click <guilabel>Overview</guilabel>.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>To query the instance usage for a month, select
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a month and click
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<guibutton>Submit</guibutton>.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>To download a summary, click <guibutton>Download
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CSV Summary</guibutton>.</para>
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</step>
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</procedure>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="instance_snapshots">
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<title>Create an instance snapshot</title>
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<procedure>
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<step>
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<para>Log in to the dashboard, choose a project, and
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click <guilabel>Instances</guilabel>.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>Select the instance from which to create a
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snapshot.</para></step>
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<step>
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<para>From the <guilabel>Actions</guilabel> list,
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select <guilabel>Create
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Snapshot</guilabel>.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>In the Create Snapshot dialog box, enter a name
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for the snapshot, and then click <guibutton>Create
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Snapshot</guibutton>.</para>
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<para>The <guilabel>Images & Snapshots</guilabel>
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category shows the instance snapshot.</para>
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</step>
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</procedure>
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<para>To launch an instance from the snapshot, select
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the snapshot and click
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<guibutton>Launch</guibutton>. Proceed with
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<xref
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linkend="dashboard_launch_instances_from_image"
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/>.</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="control_instance_states">
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<title>Manage an instance</title>
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<procedure>
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<step>
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<para>Log in to the dashboard, choose a project, and
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click <guilabel>Instances</guilabel>.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>Select an instance.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>In the <guilabel>More</guilabel> list in the
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<guilabel>Actions</guilabel> column, select
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the state.</para>
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<para>You can resize or rebuild an instance. You can
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also choose to view the instance console log.
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Depending on the current state of the instance,
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you can pause, resume, suspend, soft or hard
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reboot, or terminate it.</para>
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</step>
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</procedure>
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</section>
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</section>
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