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- Log in to the dashboard.
- Select the appropriate project from the drop down menu at the top left.
- On the Project tab, open the Compute tab and click Instances category.
- By clicking the menu list of an instance, you can perform various actions:
- You You can resize or rebuild an instance.
- You can also choose to view the instance console log, edit instance or the security groups.
- Depending on the current state of the instance, you can pause, resume, suspend, soft or hard reboot, or terminate it. Although, the cleanest way to shutdown (or reboot) an instance is to log on the VM and issue from the shell the shutdown or reboot command.