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The virtual machine is one of the essential modules of Sangfor SCP to deliver services. Tenants can manage the validity of the virtual machine.

5.3.1.1Create / Delete Virtual Machine

Features:

Guide tenants to create and delete virtual machines.

Precautions:

N/A.

Prerequisite

1. The tenant has uploaded or made the required image to create the virtual machine.
2. The tenant has a sufficient resource quota to create a virtual machine.

Steps:

Step 1.In the tenant portal, navigate to Compute > Virtual Machine. Click New to create virtual machine.

Step 2.Select the Resource Pool and Image for the virtual machine.

Step 3.Configure the Number of Virtual Machines, Compute, Storage, Networking, and other parameters according to actual requirements, then click Next. Parameters configuration can refer to chapter 4.1.5.1 Create Virtual Machine.

Step 4.Fill up the Virtual Machine's name, Description, Group, administrator's password, Hostname, and Expiration Date according to actual requirements, then click Next.

Step 5.After confirming the information, click OK to start creating the virtual machine.

Step 6.After creating the virtual machine, you can click the Console to enter the virtual machine, or click More to Shut Down, Suspend, Restart, Power Off, and Bind Key Pair, Snapshots/Backups Management, Clone, Create Image, Export, Delete, and other operations.

5.3.1.2Virtual Machine Validity

Features:

The SCP platform supports setting an expiration date for the virtual machines, and virtual machines that exceed the service validity will generate alert messages.

Precautions:

1. The expiration date of the virtual machine is in days units, and the minimum granularity of the expiration date is set to days.
2. A cloned virtual machine from the virtual machine with an expiration date the validity of the cloned virtual machine is unlimited.
3. It only supports the setting of the expiration date for the HCI virtual machine and does not support the setting of the expiration date for the VMware virtual machine.
4. The virtual machine is about to expire or has expired. It will not affect any operation of the virtual machine. Only a new alert log about to expire/expired will be added, and the virtual machine's status will be stated as a warning.

Prerequisite

N/A.

Steps:

Login to the SCP, navigate to Compute > Virtual Machine, select the particular virtual machine, click More, look for Set Validity, change the Expiration Date from Unlimited to Specified, and set the expiration date of the virtual machine.

5.3.1.3View Virtual Machine Summary

Features:

Click the corresponding virtual machine name redirecting to the virtual machine summary interface. This interface provides multiple functions such as reviewing virtual machine information, snapshots, backups, operation audits, Alerts, consoles, etc.

For the virtual machine summary, you can view the Running Status information (CPU, memory, hard disk) and the trend chart of the corresponding virtual machine. You can also perform other operations such as shutdown, restart, snapshot, backup disaster recovery, operation audit, and view alerts log of the virtual machine.

5.3.1.4Virtual Machine Snapshots

Features:

Instruct tenants to create virtual machine snapshots.

Precautions:

Snapshots are often used in scenarios where original data needs to be protected before virtual machine patches or upgrades, software updates, and other high-risk operations. If data backup is required, it is recommended to use the backup function.

Prerequisite

N/A.

Steps:

Step 1.In the virtual machine summary, select Snapshots, and click the Take Snapshot button to create a snapshot of the current virtual machine.

Step 2.After creating a snapshot, you can use the snapshot to recover the virtual machine or clone a new virtual machine.

5.3.1.5Virtual Machine Backup

Features:

Tenants can perform backup operations on the virtual machine to protect data.

Precautions:

N/A.

Prerequisite

The tenant has a sufficient backup repository quota.

Steps:

Step 1.
Manual Backup: In the virtual machine summary, select Backups and DR, and click the Backup button to back up the current virtual machine. A tenant can monitor the backup progress in the task list.

Step 2.
Auto Backup: In the virtual machine summary, select Backup and DR, click the Setting button, add a Scheduled Backup policy, and click Create Backup Policy.  You can adjust the backup schedule according to the requirements and follow the steps to associate the virtual machine with policy.

5.3.1.6Browse Files

Feature Description:

When files in the virtual machine are deleted or damaged by mistake, the tenants can recover important files of the virtual machine through the backed-up files, and file recovery is supported for Windows and Linux operating systems.

Precautions:

1. The HCI cluster managed by SCP supports a limited number of file recovery sessions, and each node supports a maximum of 3 sessions. For example, a 3-node HCI cluster supports up to 9 sessions at the same time.
2. Currently, file recovery only supports Windows NTFS, FAT32 file system format, and Linux system ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs file format.
3. The browse of files containing special characters, such as (!@#$%^&*), is not supported.
4. It doesn’t support the browsing of file sizes bigger than 5GB.
5. When the backup of the virtual machine is stored in sffs, the soft connection file of the virtual machine is linked to /proc, and file download is not supported in the /run directory.

Prerequisite

The virtual machine has backup files that exist already.

Steps:

Step 1.Go to the virtual machine summary, select Backup and DR, then click Browse Files.

Step 2.Select the files to be recovered, then click Download File for file recovery.