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How to start, stop, reboot and monitor your Performance Cloud virtual machines

This guide will show you how to do some basic actions such as starting, stopping, rebooting and monitoring a VM in Performance Cloud.

You must be a Performance Cloud client.

1. Open a web browser and go here: performancecloud.sherweb.com.

Start a VM

2. Click on the VM you wish to start.

3. Click on Start at the bottom of the screen.

4. Click on Yes.

Stop a VM

Note: There are two different options for stopping a VM.

Shutdown: shuts down the operating system before stopping the server
Stop: powers the server off, just as pressing and holding the Power button on a physical server would do.

5. Click on your Virtual Machine and then click on Stop.

6. Click on Yes.

Reboot a VM

7. Click on the VM you wish to delete and then click on Restart.

8. Click on Yes.

Monitor a VM

1. Click on the VM you wish to monitor.

2. All your VM resource statistics and the like are displayed on this page.

All Performance Cloud accounts.