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.