How to start a VM from instance snapshot using Horizon dashboard on 3Engines Cloud🔗¶

In this article, you will learn how to create a virtual machine from an instance snapshot using Horizon dashboard.

Prerequisites🔗¶

No. 1 Account

You need a 3Engines Cloud hosting account with access to the Horizon interface: https://3engine.rootxwire.com/.

No. 2 Ephemeral storage vs. persistent storage

Please see article Ephemeral vs Persistent storage option Create New Volume on 3Engines Cloud to understand the basic difference between ephemeral and persistent types of storage in 3Engines.

No. 3 Instance snapshot

You need to have an instance snapshot from which you are going to create your virtual machine. In this article, we will use an exemplary snapshot named my-instance-snapshot - here is how it can look like in section Images -> Images of the Horizon dashboard:

The following articles contain information how to create such a snapshot: