As an administrative user, you can manage instances for users in
various projects. You can view, terminate, edit, perform a soft or hard
reboot, create a snapshot from, and migrate instances. You can also view
the logs for instances or launch a VNC console for an instance.

For information about using the Dashboard to launch instances as an
end user, see the OpenStack End User Guide </user/launch-instances>.

Create instance snapshots

1. Log in to the Dashboard and select the admin project from the
   drop-down list.
2. On the Admin
   tab, open the Compute tab and click the Instances category.
3. Select an instance to create a snapshot from it. From the Actions
   drop-down list, select Create Snapshot.
4. In the Create Snapshot window, enter a name for the
   snapshot.
5. Click Create Snapshot. The Dashboard shows the instance
   snapshot in the Images category.
6. To launch an instance from the snapshot, select the snapshot and
   click Launch. For
   information about launching instances, see the OpenStack End User Guide </user/launch-instances>.

Control the state of an
instance

1. Log in to the Dashboard and select the admin project from the
   drop-down list.

2. On the Admin tab, open the Compute tab and click
   the Instances
   category.

3. Select the instance for which you want to change the
   state.

4. From the drop-down list in the Actions column, select the
   state.

   Depending on the current state of the instance, you can perform
   various actions on the instance. For example, pause, un-pause, suspend,
   resume, soft or hard reboot, or terminate (actions in red are
   dangerous).

Track usage

Use the Overview category to track usage of instances for
each project.

You can track costs per month by showing meters like number of VCPUs,
disks, RAM, and uptime of all your instances.

1. Log in to the Dashboard and select the admin project from the
   drop-down list.
2. On the Admin
   tab, click the Overview category.
3. Select a month and click Submit to query the instance usage for that
   month.
4. Click Download CSV Summary to download a CSV
   summary.