Summary of resources that a cloud user manages.
This section describes the resources that a cloud user manages using the APIs and CLI.
Availability and management of some of these resources might vary depending on the configuration of the vDC. Contact your cloud administrator for more information.
Access keys control access to an account. See Managing Account Access.
Virtual networks (vNets) manage network connectivity of vServers. See Managing Virtual Networks and Managing vIP Addresses.
Server templates specify how an operating system is deployed when creating a vServer. See Managing Server Templates for more information.
Virtual storage is the volumes that are attached to vServers and the snapshots that capture the current state of a volume. See Managing Storage.
Distribution Groups are used to create a behavior in vServers that is similar to anti-affinity scaling properties. See Managing Distribution Groups.
Virtual servers (vServers) expose an interface of a standalone operating system. A vServer has its own identity, local storage, interfaces, and configuration that exist for the lifetime of the vServer. See Managing vServers.
These resources have both attributes and tags:
Attributes: When a resource is created, it has a set of attributes to describe it, such as name, description, and size. Some attributes can be modified. See Managing Attributes of an Account Resource.
Tags: Tags are assigned to a resource to bind cloud user-specific information to account resources. See Managing Tags.