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.

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:
Select the Infrastructure link in the navigation bar.
Select the Clouds link in the sub navigation bar.
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.