Clones

Managing and monitoring clone virtual machines

The Clones page displays all clone virtual machines in your Axilon system. Clones are used for failover operations and testing configurations without affecting the primary systems.

Clone List View

The clones table displays the following information for each clone:

• Name: The name of the clone virtual machine

  • C badge indicates this is a Clone machine

• Primary Machine: The primary machine that this clone is associated with

  • P badge indicates the Primary machine

• Configuration: The configuration used for this clone

• VM Image: The virtual machine image name used for this clone

• Clone Status: Current operational state of the clone

  • Running: Clone is active and operational

  • Stopped: Clone is not currently running

  • Starting: Clone is in the process of starting up

• CPU/RAM: Resource allocation for this clone (e.g., "2 / 8GB" means 2 CPU cores and 8GB RAM)

  • Click the info icon to see total available CPU and RAM resources on the system

• Created By: The user who created the clone

• Created At: The date and time when the clone was created

Filtering Clones

Click the filter icon in the upper right to filter clones by any column, including:

• Clone name

• Primary machine

• Configuration

• Status

• Created date

• User

Clone Actions

Click the three-dot menu (⋮) on the right side of any clone row to access the following actions:

View

Opens the clone details page showing comprehensive information about the clone VM, its configuration, and status.

Start Failover

Initiates a failover operation, switching operations from the primary machine to this clone. Use this when the primary system needs maintenance or experiences issues.

Create Snapshot

Manually creates a snapshot of the clone's current VM image. This is useful for capturing the clone's VM image at a specific point in time.

Delete

Removes the clone virtual machine. Use caution as this action may be irreversible.

Creating a New Clone

To create a new clone, click the Create Clone button in the upper right corner. See Clone Operations for detailed instructions on creating and managing clones.