August 2013
Table of Contents
1. What is Virtzone Cloud Control? ... 3
2. What this document covers ... 3
This document covers the basic steps required to log on to and manage your virtual servers and environment. Advanced functions are also available but will not be covered in this document. ... 3
3. Terms you should know. ... 3
4. Logging On ... 3
5. Navigating the cloud platform ... 4
6. Managing and Provisioning Instances ... 5
7. Storage ... 10
8. Network ... 11
9. Templates and Events ... 13
10. Projects ... 14
11. Accounts and Domains... 18
1. What is Virtzone Cloud Control?
The SystemBind cloud platform allows you to create, remove and manage your virtual server environment. It provides your organization a fast, efficient and secured connection to your virtual servers. To allow ease of use this guide has been created to provide you with step by step instructions on the features available in the cloud platform.
2. What this document covers
This document covers the basic steps required to log on to and manage your virtual servers and environment. Advanced functions are also available but will not be covered in this document.
3. Terms you should know.
VPC: Virtual Private Cloud. This refers to your environment being setup in a private network accessible by your servers only.
Virtual Server: A virtual server is a server setup in a datacentre that provides similar functions to a traditional in-house physical server.
Host: Host refers to the address of the server. For example desktop.example.com may be the location of the virtual desktop for the organization example.com
4. Logging On
To login to the SystemBind cloud platform open your favourite browser and go to
Image 1 – Login Page
To Login you will require the following information:
Username: This is your email password registered on this system
Password: This will be provided by SystemBind help desk
Domain: This will be the domain name associated with your account.
5. Navigating the cloud platform
Once you have logged on you will see a screen similar to the one in image 2. This is your dashboard and provides a high level overview of the number of servers (running and stopped) as well as latest events, network events and public events.
Image 2 – Dashboard Screenshot
From here you can launch the following:
Instances: This section allows you to provision new instances and manage existing servers. Storage: Allows to manage your disks and take snapshots.
Network: Allows the management network and IP address
Domains: Allows you to view your domain details
6. Managing and Provisioning Instances
The instance section allows you to provision and manage your instances. (See Image 3)
Image 3 – Instances
To manage an instance you can click on the name of the instance and the pop up window allows you to view the details or perform certain functions on the instance.
For example you can click on
Details provide specific information around instance names, server types and template names.
NIC’s allows you to view the IP’s allocated to the instance. Statistics allows you to view the usage details of an instance.
The top menu bar also allows you to perform certain functions on an instance. (See Image 4)
Stop Instance: Allows you to force stop your instance Reboot Instance: Allows you to restart your instance
Destroy Instance: Allows you to terminate your instance. Note you have 2 minutes to revert this action if performed accidentally. If not changed data loss will occur.
Reset VM: Allows you to reset the VM
Attach an ISO: Allows you to attach an ISO file to boot from or connect too. Reset Password: Allows you to reset the servers password
Change Service: Note you can change the services associated with the instance. View Console: Allows you to connect to your instance via a console connection
Image 4 – Instances Functions To Provision an instance:
First click on the Add Instance button located on the right hand side (See Image 5)
Image 5 – Add instance button
Once you have clicked on this button you can proceed with selecting your zone and
Image 6 – Select Template
Now you can select your instance size. The amount of resources should be selected with care as too little may have adverse effects on the performance of your instance.
A vCPU is a virtual CPU that your virtual server will detect.
A vCU is a computing core this is the number of cores or threads that your virtual server will detect.
Lastly the amount of RAM selected will allow your virtual server to detect selected amount of RAM.
Image 7 – Select Instance Size.
Image 8 – Select Disk Size
Image 9 – Selecting a Network
Finally you can review your configuration and give your server a name and group name.
7. Storage
In this area of the site you can select volumes for creation of snapshots and add a new volume to attach to a server. (see image 10)
To create a snap shot of an existing volume click an instance and click on Take a Snapshot icon alternatively you can click on Setup a Recurring Snapshot which will allow you to schedule the creation of snapshots of your instance.
WARNING: Note that creation of a snapshot can cause temporary unavailability of the server being snapshotted.
Image 11 – Storage Details
In this section you can also delete your volume or attach an alternative disk to this volume. WARNING: Data corruption or loss of files can occur if a volume is accidentally deleted. Adding a volume can also be achieved by pressing on the Add Volume button. You will be required to give the volume a name and select the zone to store the volume in and lastly you will be required to select the disk size.
8. Network
Image 12 – Network Main Page
Selecting the View allows you to select which type of network you would like to manage. This could be a guest network, a VPC or a VPN customer Gateway. In most scenario’s your server environment will be configured as a VPC.
If you wish to configure your VPC you can do so by clicking on the configure button of an existing VPC and from here you can create an additional tier in your network architecture or add a VM to a specified network layer. (See Image 13)
Finally you can also create a new VPC network for your environment. To do so click on the Add VPC icon as seen in image 12 and from there you can enter in the following details to configure your new network.
Name: This is the name of the network
Description: This is a short description of the network
Super CIDR for Guest Networks: This is the IP range you wish to select for your new network. If already taken this section will prompt you with a warning.
DNS domain for Guest Networks: This is an optional field if you wish to supply a domain name server.
Image 14 – Add a new VPC
9. Templates and Events
Image 15 – Templates Main Page
In the events section you can view the last set of actions performed on your account. It provides details on what occurred by whom and at what time. See image 16
Image 16 – Events Main Page
10. Projects
The projects section allows you to assign user accounts and allocate a number of resources to a project that those users can use. Everyone within this group has access to the
Image 17 – Projects Main Page
Image 20 – Projects Customize Page Resources
11. Accounts and Domains
The accounts and domains sections of the site allows you to view the accounts that have been created and domain information.
Image 20 – Accounts -> User Details
The domains section provides details on the overall limits placed for your account. Limits are placed on the amount of instances that can be provisioned, IP addresses allocated, volume limits and more.
12. Further Help
If you require specific help you can proceed to SystemBind support at
