Clouds

Overview

Clouds are integrations or connections to public, private, hybrid clouds, or bare metal servers. Clouds can belong to many groups and contain many hosts. The clouds view includes clouds status, statistics, tenant assignment, and provides the option to add, edit, delete new clouds. Morpheus supports most Public Clouds and Private Clouds.

Supported Cloud Types

  • Alibaba Cloud

  • Amazon

  • Azure (Public)

  • Azure Stack (Private)

  • Cloud Foundry

  • Dell (Cloud type for PXE and manually added Dell EMC Hosts)

  • DigitalOcean

  • Google Cloud

  • HPE (Cloud type for PXE and manually added HPE Hosts)

  • HPE OneView

  • Huawei

  • Hyper-V

  • IBM Cloud

  • IBM Cloud Platform

  • Kubernetes

  • MacStadium

  • Morpheus (Generic Cloud type for PXE/Bare Metal and manually added Hosts)

  • Nutanix

  • Open Telekom Cloud

  • OpenStack

  • Oracle Public Cloud

  • Oracle VM

  • Platform 9

  • SCVMM

  • SoftLayer

  • Supermicro (Cloud type for PXE and manually added Supermicro Hosts)

  • UCS

  • UpCloud

  • VMWare ESXi

  • VMware Fusion

  • VMWare on AWS

  • VMware vCenter

  • VMware vCloud Air

  • VMware vCloud Director

  • XenServer

Information on each cloud type can be found in the Guides section.

Creating Clouds

Clouds can be added from Infrastructure > Clouds or in Infrastructure -> Groups -> (select Group) -> Clouds. Individual Guides for adding specific Cloud Types can be found in the Guides section.

Cloud Detail View

The Cloud Detail view shows metrics on health, sync status, current month costs, average monthly costs, resource utilization statistics, and resource counts for Container Hosts, Hypervisors, Bare Metal, Virtual Machines, and Unmanaged resources.

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To view the Cloud List View, select the name of a Cloud to display the clouds Detail View.

EDIT

Edit the setup configuration of the Cloud.

REFRESH

Force a sync with the Cloud. Last sync date, time and duration is shown under the Cloud name.

DELETE

Delete the Cloud from Morpheus

Important

All Instances and managed Hosts and VM’s associated with the Cloud must be removed prior to deleting a cloud.

Cloud Detail Tabs

Note

Not all tabs are available for all Cloud Types.

Clusters

The Clusters tab displays clusters provisioned into the Cloud being viewed, including their status, type, name, layout, workers, and compute, memory, and storage stats. You can add a cluster by clicking ADD CLUSTER.

Hosts

The Hosts tab displays available hosts in the Cloud and displays power, OS, name, type, cloud, IP address, nodes, disk space, memory, and status. You can add a resource by clicking ADD RESOURCE, add a hypervisor host by clicking ADD HYPERVISOR, or perform action an action by selecting one or more Hosts and clicking ACTIONS.

VMs (Virtual Machines)

Displays an inventory of existing Instances in your Cloud configuration and provides details such as power, OS, name, type, cloud, IP address, nodes, disk space, memory, and status.

Bare Metal

Setup PXE Boot in the Boot section to add bare metal servers. Once set up you can view information such as power, OS, name, type, cloud, IP address, nodes, disk space, memory, and status.

Security Groups

The Security Groups tab displays a list of existing security groups in the cloud. You can add a security group to this cloud by clicking EDIT SECURITY GROUPS.

Load Balancers

The load balancers tab panel displays available load balancers in the cloud including the name, description, type, cloud and host. You can add a load balancer from this tab by clicking ADD LOAD BALANCER.

Networks

Displays Networks synced or added to the Cloud, including their name, type, CIDR, pool, DHCP status, visibility and targeted Tenant.

Data Stores

Displays Datastores synced or added to the Cloud, including their name, type, capacity, online status, visibility, and targeted Tenant.

Resources

Displays Resource Pools synced from the Cloud, including their name, description, and targeted Tenant.

Policies

Manages Policies enforced on the Cloud. Setting a policy on this tab is equal to creating a policy in Administration > Policies and scoping it to the selected Cloud.

Deleting Clouds

To delete a cloud:

  1. Select the Infrastructure link in the navigation bar.

  2. Select the Clouds link in the sub navigation bar.

  3. Click the Delete icon of the cloud to delete.

Important

All Instances, managed Hosts and VMs must be removed prior to deleting a Cloud. To remove Instances, hosts and VMs from Morpheus without deleting the Cloud resources they represent, select Delete on the host or VM, unselect “Remove Infrastructure”, and select “Remove Associated Instances” if Instance are associated with the selected Hosts or VMs.