Instance Overview

Lifecycle, actions, console access, and key metrics for VMs.

Lifecycle

State	Description
Running	VM is powered on and billable for compute
Stopped	Powered off; billing is still on
Rebooting	Graceful restart
Error	Provisioning or runtime error

Actions ⚙️

• Start / Stop / Restart

• Resize (where supported), automatically scale up resources

• Snapshots and Backups

• Destroy (requires confirmation)

Console & metrics

• Web/Serial console to recover from network issues

• Monitoring tab for CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network graphs