Viewing and modifying cloud groups

You can view or modify a cloud group in IBM® Cloud Pak System Software for Power®.

Before you begin

You must be assigned one of the following permissions to perform these steps:
  • Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud groups (Read-only permission)
  • Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud groups (Read-only)
  • Resource level administration role with Read access rights permission (ACL) to view a specific instance
  • Resource level administration role with Write or All access rights permission (ACL) to view and manage a specific instance
Restriction: A user with no System level permissions might not be able to edit a Cloud group even if that user has full permission for the Cloud group.

About this task

You can use the console, the command line interface, or the REST API to complete this task. For the command line and REST API information, see the Related information section.

Procedure

  1. Access the console pane. Click Cloud > Cloud Groups. If you are on 2.3.3.3, Cloud > Architecture > Cloud Groups.
  2. Select a cloud group. You can view or modify the following fields. Editable fields display either edit or remove links, or are underlined with a dash line.
    Jobs
    Specifies the jobs associated with this cloud group. Click View details to view the jobs.
    Description
    This optional field specifies the description of this cloud group. Click the dotted line to add or edit the description.
    State
    Specifies the state of the cloud group.
    Created on
    Specifies the time stamp with day and time that the cloud group was created.
    Updated on
    Specifies the time stamp with day and time that the cloud group was last updated.
    Hypervisor type
    Specifies the hypervisor type.
    Type
    Specifies the cloud group type. You cannot modify cloud group Type while in use. You can modify Type when creating a new cloud group and, only when resources (IPs and computing resources) in the cloud group are not in use by any other form (LPARs).
    IP groups
    Specifies the IP groups associated with this cloud group. Expand the IP groups section to review details on the IP Groups page. To add an IP group to the cloud group, click Add more in the menu and select an IP group to add. To remove an IP group, click the Delete icon in the "Action" column.
    Storage pools
    Specifies the storage pools associated with this cloud group. Expand the Storage pools section to review the details on the Storage pools page. To add a storage pool to the cloud group, click Add more in the menu and select a storage pool to add. To remove a storage pool, click the Delete icon in the "Action" column.
    Compute nodes
    Shows the compute nodes assigned to the cloud group. Expand the Compute nodes section to review the details on the Compute nodes page. Click Add more to assign a new compute node. Click the Delete icon in the "Action" column to remove an assigned compute node.
    Note: A single compute node cannot be assigned to multiple cloud groups.
    Restriction: A cloud group must contain the same type of compute node. You cannot add both POWER7® compute nodes and POWER8 compute nodes in the same cloud group.
    Hardware information
    Specifies the usage and allocation of CPU resources and physical memory.
    Virtualization statistics
    Specifies the utilization of virtual CPU resources and virtual memory allocated to active virtual machines in this cloud group.
    Virtual machines
    Expand the Virtual machines section to view the details of the virtual machines assigned to this cloud group. You can view information including name, status, virtual memory utilization and virtual CPU utilization.
    Virtual machine configurations
    Expand the Virtual machine configurations section to view the configuration details of virtual machines assigned to this cloud group. You can view information including name, virtual memory, CPU count and description. To delete a virtual machine configuration, click the Delete icon in the Action column. Click Create a new configuration to create a virtual machine configuration for this cloud group. Describe the configuration that you want to create by entering the name in the Name field, a description in the Description field, a numeric value in the CPU count field, and numeric value in the Virtual memory (MB) filed. Click OK.
    Volume configurations
    Expand the Volume configurations section to view the configuration details of volumes assigned to this cloud group. You can view information including name, size and description. Click Create a new configuration to create a volume configuration for this cloud group. Describe the volume configuration that you want to create by entering the name in the Name field, a description in the Description field, and size in the Size (MB) field. Click OK.
    Note: You can define the size of your volume up to the following maximum values:
    • VMFS volume: 1.8 TB
    • RAW volume: 2 TB
    Access granted to
    Select user IDs from the Add more menu for those users who require access to the cloud group. To view the users with admin access, click admin. To display all users, click all. To remove a user, click remove.