Groups

Page Description

This page allows the creation of groups that you can assign one or more virtual machine to. Virtual machines are then displayed under their respective group name within the virtual machines table on the virtual machines page.

In This Guide

What is a virtual machine group?

Grouping is designed to help you categorise your virtual machines. As an example your virtual machines might serve the purpose of web servers and database server and so you may wish to group servers of each type using those respective titles. Once you've added a virtual machine to a group it will then appear underneath the group title within the main virtual machines table on the virtual machines page. Grouping virtual machines also affords you the opportunity to have machines of the same group placed onto different backend servers; therefore improving resiliency. Note, a virtual machine can only belong to one group. For further categorisation consider using tags.

Create a virtual machine group

  1. Select Compute -> Virtual Machines from the sidebar
  2. Select Groups from the now exposed child menu in the sidebar
  3. Click on the Add new virtual machine group button at the top of the groups page
  4. Complete the subsequent form, selecting which machines you wish to add to the group.
  5. Click the Save button.

Edit a virtual machine group

  1. Select Compute -> Virtual Machines from the sidebar
  2. Select Groups from the now exposed child menu in the sidebar
  3. Select the group you wish to edit.
  4. Click Save once you have made your desired changes.

Delete a virtual machine group

Warning - Segregation Reversal:
Deleting a group that has segregation enabled might result in any now group-less machines being placed on the same backend servers in future.

  1. Click the three dots to the right hand side of the group within the groups table.
  2. Click Delete
  3. Confirm the action

Adding a new virtual machine(s) to an existing group

There are currently two different ways to add a virtual machine to a group, as follows:

Option One: Assign a group at virtual machine creation

When creating a new virtual machine you are provided the opportunity to assign it to an existing group.

Option Two: Assign a group to an existing virtual machine

To add an existing virtual machine to an existing group:

  1. Select Compute -> Virtual Machines from the sidebar
  2. Select Groups from the now exposed child menu in the sidebar
  3. Click the name of the group you wish to assign one or more virtual machines to
  4. In the Virtual machines field begin typing the hostname or name of a machine you wish to add to the group. Select it from the list of options.
  5. Repeat step 4 as many times as needed.
  6. Click the Save button.

The machine(s) in question now belongs to the given group.