openstack-manuals/doc/user-guide/section_dashboard_manage_instances.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
xml:id="dashboard_manage_instances">
<title>Manage instances</title>
<?dbhtml stop-chunking?>
<section xml:id="instance_snapshots">
<title>Create instance snapshots</title>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>Log in to the OpenStack dashboard, choose a
project, and click the
<guilabel>Instances</guilabel>
category.</para>
<para>The dashboard lists the instances that are
available for this project.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Select the instance of which to create a
snapshot. From the <guilabel>Actions</guilabel>
drop-down list, select <guilabel>Create
Snapshot</guilabel>.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>In the <guilabel>Create Snapshot</guilabel>
window, enter a name for the snapshot. Click
<guibutton>Create Snapshot</guibutton>. The
dashboard shows the instance snapshot in the
<guilabel>Images &amp; Snapshots</guilabel>
category.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>To launch an instance from the snapshot, select
the snapshot and click
<guibutton>Launch</guibutton>. Proceed with
<xref
linkend="dashboard_launch_instances_from_image"
/>.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
<section xml:id="control_instance_states">
<title>Control the state of an instance</title>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>Log in to the OpenStack dashboard, choose a
project, and click the
<guilabel>Instances</guilabel>
category.</para>
<para>The dashboard lists the instances that are
available for this project.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Select the instance for which you want to change
the state.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>In the <guilabel>More</guilabel> drop-down list
in the <guilabel>Actions</guilabel> column, select
the state.</para>
<para>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. <figure>
<title>OpenStack dashboard: Actions</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata
fileref="../common/figures/change_instance_state.png"
format="PNG" contentwidth="4in"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
<section xml:id="track_usage">
<title>Track usage</title>
<para>You can track usage of instances for each
project.</para>
<para>You can track costs per month by showing metrics like
number of VCPUs, disks, RAM, and uptime of all your
instances.</para>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>If you are a member of multiple projects, select
a project from the drop-down list at the top of
the <guilabel>Project</guilabel> tab.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Select a month and click
<guibutton>Submit</guibutton> to query the
instance usage for that month.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Click <guibutton>Download CSV
Summary</guibutton> to download a CSV
summary.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
</section>