CloudStack Administration Documentation¶
This guide is aimed at Administrators of a CloudStack based Cloud, for Release Notes, Installation and General introduction to CloudStack see the following guides:
User Interface¶
Managing Accounts, Users and Domains¶
Using Projects to Organize User Resources¶
Service Offerings¶
Setting up Networking for Users¶
Working with Virtual Machines¶
- Working with Virtual Machines
- About Working with Virtual Machines
- Best Practices for Virtual Machines
- VM Lifecycle
- Creating VMs
- Accessing VMs
- Stopping and Starting VMs
- Assigning VMs to Hosts
- Virtual Machine Snapshots
- Changing the VM Name, OS, or Group
- Appending a Display Name to the Guest VM’s Internal Name
- Changing the Service Offering for a VM
- Resetting the Virtual Machine Root Volume on Reboot
- Moving VMs Between Hosts (Manual Live Migration)
- Deleting VMs
- Working with ISOs
- Using SSH Keys for Authentication
- User-Data and Meta-Data
- Assigning GPU/vGPU to Guest VMs
Working with Templates¶
- Working with Templates
- Creating Templates: Overview
- Requirements for Templates
- Best Practices for Templates
- The Default Template
- Private and Public Templates
- Creating a Template from an Existing Virtual Machine
- Creating a Template from a Snapshot
- Uploading Templates
- vSphere Templates and ISOs
- Exporting Templates
- Creating a Linux Template
- Creating a Windows Template
- Importing Amazon Machine Images
- Converting a Hyper-V VM to a Template
- Adding Password Management to Your Templates
- Deleting Templates
Working with Hosts¶
Working with Storage¶
Working with System Virtual Machines¶
Working with Usage¶
Managing Networks and Traffic¶
- Managing Networks and Traffic
- Guest Traffic
- Networking in a Pod
- Networking in a Zone
- Basic Zone Physical Network Configuration
- Advanced Zone Physical Network Configuration
- Using Multiple Guest Networks
- IP Reservation in Isolated Guest Networks
- Reserving Public IP Addresses and VLANs for Accounts
- Configuring Multiple IP Addresses on a Single NIC
- About Multiple IP Ranges
- About Elastic IPs
- Portable IPs
- Multiple Subnets in Shared Network
- Isolation in Advanced Zone Using Private VLAN
- Security Groups
- External Firewalls and Load Balancers
- Global Server Load Balancing Support
- Guest IP Ranges
- Acquiring a New IP Address
- Releasing an IP Address
- Static NAT
- IP Forwarding and Firewalling
- IP Load Balancing
- DNS and DHCP
- Remote Access VPN
- About Inter-VLAN Routing (nTier Apps)
- Configuring a Virtual Private Cloud
- Persistent Networks
- Setup a Palo Alto Networks Firewall
- Using Remote Access VPN
Managing the Cloud¶
System Reliability and Availability¶
Plugins¶
Tuning¶
Events and Troubleshooting¶
- Event Notification
- TroubleShooting
- Working with Server Logs
- Data Loss on Exported Primary Storage
- Recovering a Lost Virtual Router
- Maintenance mode not working on vCenter
- Unable to deploy VMs from uploaded vSphere template
- Unable to power on virtual machine on VMware
- Load balancer rules fail after changing network offering
- Troubleshooting Internet Traffic