Description
Articles about how to deploy and manage Cloud Servers in an MCP 2.0 data center location.
Introduction / Overview Articles:
Servers
How do I Identify Hardware Specifications and Capabilities Available in a Data Center Location
Introduction to Cloud Server Provisioning, OS Customization, and Best Practices
Introduction to Cloud Server Local Storage ("Disks") and Disk Speeds
Images
- Navigating the Images and Applications Dashboard
- Introduction to the Import / Export Function
- Introduction to the Client Image Export History Dashboard
- Best Practices and Tips around Microsoft Windows Guest OS Customization Client Images
How-to Articles:
Servers
- How to Deploy a Cloud Server from a Guest OS Customization Image
- How to Deploy a Cloud Server from a Non-Guest OS Customization Image
- How to Create a Snapshot Preview Server from a Replicated Snapshot
- How to Manage a Cloud Server
- How to Delete a Cloud Server
- How to Get Virtual Console Access to a Cloud Server
- How to Clone a Cloud Server to Create a Client Image
- How to Manage a Local Storage Disk on a Cloud Server
- How to Add a SCSI Controller to a Cloud Server
- How to View the Status of VM Tools on a Cloud Server
- How to Update VMware Tools on a Cloud Server
- How to Add Additional Local Storage (Disk) to a Cloud Server
- How to Clean / Remove a Failed Server
- How to Remove Local Storage from a Cloud Server
- How to Remove a SCSI Controller from a Cloud Server
- How to Remove ISO / FLP Files from a Cloud Server
- How to Add an Additional NIC to a Cloud Server
- How to Change the Network Adapter of a NIC on a Cloud Server
- How to Add a Server to a VLAN in a MCP 2.0 Data Center Location
- How to Remove a NIC from a Cloud Server
- How to Update Virtual Hardware on a Cloud Server
- How to Notify CloudControl of a Change to the IP Addresses of a NIC in a MCP 2.0 Data Center
- How to Permit Outbound Access to a Certain Port in MCP 2.0
- How to Identify which Servers are Attached to a VLAN in a MCP 2.0 Data Center
- How to Identify which VLANs are Associated with a Cloud Server in a MCP 2.0 Data Center
- How to Add or Remove a Cloud Server to / from a Server Security Group
- How to Add or Remove a Cloud Server NIC to / from a VLAN Security Group
- How to Identify on which User-Manageable Cluster a Server is Located
- How to Manage Server Anti-Affinity
- How to Move a Cloud Server between User-Manageable Clusters
- Bulk Cloud Server Actions
- MCP 1.0 to 2.0 Self-Service Migration
Images
- How Do I Identify the Operating System of a Server or Image
- How to Import an OVF Package as a Client Image
- How to Clone a Cloud Server to Create a Client Image
- How to Import an OVF Package as a Client Image
- How to Export a Client Image to an OVF Package
- How to Manage Client and Long-Term Retention Images
- How to Clean / Remove a Failed Image
- How to Delete Client and Long-Term Retention Images
- How to Copy a Client Image between Locations in the Same Geographic Region
- How to Copy a Client Image between Different Geographic Regions
- How to Copy an OVF Package from Another Geographic Region
- How to Access your Client Image Import and Export OVF Package Staging Folder
VPN and Network
- How to Establish a Secure VPN Connection to Access your Cloud Network and Servers
- Redirecting a Port on a Public IP to a Different Port on an Internal Server in a MCP 1.0 Data Center
- Port Redirection using a Virtual Listener in a MCP 2.0 Data Center Location
OS Specific Information
Microsoft Windows
- Import Function Support for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
- Best Practices and Tips around Microsoft Windows Guest OS Customization Client Images
- How to Identify Additional Local Storage on a Windows Virtual Server
- Microsoft Windows Support Policy
- Issues Importing Windows 2003 Servers with Existing License Keys
- How to Add a RDP Exception in the Windows Firewall on Windows 2003 Servers
RedHat and CentOS
- How to Configure Existing Red Hat Servers to Use the MCP Update Infrastructure
- How do I Relicense an Imported Red Hat Server for the Managed Cloud Platform
- Certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Images
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Support Policy
- How to Add Additional IP Addresses to a Red Hat / CentOS Linux Server
- CentOS 5.4
- Eliminating the Creation of a new NIC Every Time Ubuntu, SUSE/SLES, Red Hat 6 or CentOS 6 is Cloned
- Disable Linux System from Rebooting when CTRL ALT DELETE is Pressed
- Will I Have to Reconfigure Where my Red Hat Servers Get Updates if They Are Copied To Another Location?
SUSE/SLES
Tagging:
- Introduction to Tagging, Tag Keys and Tag Values
- How to Create a Tag Key for your Organization
- How to View and Manage Tag Keys for your Organization
- How to Delete a Tag Key for your Organization
- How to View and Apply Tags to your Cloud Assets
- How to Remove Tags From your Cloud Assets
Cloud Server Snapshot Feature:
- Introduction to Cloud Server Snapshots
- Introduction to Cloud Server Snapshot Long-Term Retention Images
- How to Enable Cloud Server Snapshots on a Server
- How to Take a Manual Cloud Server Snapshot
- How to View and Manage Snapshots for a Cloud Server
- How to Disable Cloud Server Snapshots on a Server
- How to Create a Snapshot Preview Server from a Local Snapshot
- How to Set Pre and Post Snapshot Scripts on a Cloud Server
- How to Disable Pre and Post Snapshot Scripts
- How to Restore a File or Directory from a Cloud Server Snapshot to the Cloud Server
- How to Manage Snapshot Replication on a Cloud Server
- How to Create a Snapshot Preview Server from a Replicated Snapshot
- How to Migrate a "Snapshot Preview" Server to a Normal Cloud Server
- How to Generate a Snapshot Usage Report
- Enabling Network Connectivity to a Snapshot Preview Server using RHEL, CentOS, or Oracle if MAC Addresses Have Changed
- Addressing Boot Order Issues with a Snapshot Preview Server with an IDE Disk
DRS for Cloud:
- How to View and Clean your Consistency Groups
- How to Create a DRS Consistency Group
- How to Create a DRS Target Server
- How to List DRS Snapshots for a Consistency Group
- What Happens to a Source Server when it is added to a Consistency Group?
- What happens to a Target Server when it is added to a Consistency Group?
- How to Delete a Consistency Group
- How to Initiate a Failover for a DRS Consistency Group
- How to Start a DRS Preview for a Consistency Group
- How to Stop a DRS Preview for a Consistency Group
- How to Generate a DRS Pairs Usage Report
- How to Power Off a DRS Source Server