Log in to the OpenStack dashboard, choose a project, and click the Instances category. The dashboard lists the instances that are available for this project. Select the instance of which to create a snapshot. From the Actions drop-down list, select Create Snapshot. In the Create Snapshot window, enter a name for the snapshot. Click Create Snapshot. The dashboard shows the instance snapshot in the Images & Snapshots category. To launch an instance from the snapshot, select the snapshot and click Launch. Proceed with .

Log in to the OpenStack dashboard, choose a project, and click the Instances category. The dashboard lists the instances that are available for this project. Select the instance for which you want to change the state. In the More drop-down list in the Actions column, select the state. Depending on the current state of the instance, you can choose to pause, un-pause, suspend, resume, soft or hard reboot, or terminate an instance.

You can track usage of instances for each project. You can track costs per month by showing metrics like number of VCPUs, disks, RAM, and uptime of all your instances. If you are a member of multiple projects, select a project from the drop-down list at the top of the Project tab. Select a month and click Submit to query the instance usage for that month. Click Download CSV Summary to download a CSV summary.