CLOUD
Cloud articles cover the main OpenStack compute workflows in cloud environment: creating virtual machines, accessing them, managing images and snapshots, using security groups, understanding quotas and flavors, and working with selected advanced VM configurations.
Use this section when you need to create or manage virtual machines through Horizon or CLI, prepare images, resize instances, work with snapshots, or troubleshoot common VM access and console issues.
Concepts, quotas, and projects
Create and access virtual machines
- How to create new Linux VM in OpenStack Dashboard Horizon
- How to create a Linux VM and access it from Linux command line
- How to create a Linux VM and access it from Windows desktop
- How to create a VM using the OpenStack CLI client
- How to access the VM from OpenStack console
- How to create key pair in OpenStack Dashboard
Windows virtual machines
Images, snapshots, and volumes
- What Image Formats are Available in OpenStack the cloud
- How to upload custom image to the cloud using OpenStack Horizon dashboard
- How to upload your custom image using OpenStack CLI
- How to create instance snapshot using Horizon
- How to start a VM from a snapshot
- How to start a VM from instance snapshot using Horizon dashboard
- How to create a VM from volume snapshot using Horizon dashboard
- How to transfer volumes between domains and projects using Horizon dashboard
- VM created with option Create New Volume No
- VM created with option Create New Volume Yes
Credentials, CLI access, and tools
Resize, clone, console, and security