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Documentation and tutorials on how to design and provision and manage infrastructures.

• Getting started
• Concepts
  • Important concepts
  • Instance Arrays and Drive Arrays
  • Infrastructures
  • Servers and Instances
• Managing infrastructures
  • Creating an infrastructure using the UI
  • Creating an infrastructure using the CLI
  • Listing infrastructures using the CLI
  • Changing an infrastructure’s properties using the UI
  • Deleting an infrastructure using the CLI
• Managing instance arrays
  • Deploying an instance array using the Infrastructure Editor
  • Retrieving server access credentials using the UI
  • Deploying an instance array using the CLI
  • Retrieving server access credentials using the CLI
  • Checking the power status of all the instances in this instance array using the CLI
  • Rebooting an instance using the CLI
• Managing networks
  • Using multiple links
  • Joining an existing network
  • Creating a LAN network
  • Advanced: Subnet pools
  • Advanced: Network profiles
• Managing drive arrays
  • Creating a drive array using the UI
  • Listing drive arrays of an instance array using the UI
  • Adding a new drive
  • Removing a drive
  • Expanding disk size
  • Creating a drive array using the CLI
  • Listing drive arrays of an infrastructure using the CLI
  • Deleting a drive array via the CLI
  • Manually logging into the iscsi target
• Deploying Kubernetes on MetalSoft
  • Deploying Kubernetes using the UI:
  • Setting up a sample application on Kubernetes
• Using the CLI
  • Installation
  • Getting the API key
  • Getting a list of supported commands
  • Getting started
  • Kubernetes-style Apply support
  • Condensed format
  • Using label instead of IDs
  • Permissions
• Connecting to linux servers through SSH
  • Locating access credentials and connecting
• Connecting to Windows servers through RDP
  • Locating access credentials
  • Connect to your server via RDP.
  • Locate your RDP Rule
  • Creating Your IP Restrictions
• Delegating access to an infrastructure
• Retrieving the utilization report
  • The Detailed utilization report
  • Viewing server subscriptions (reservations)
  • Automating chargeback or billing in reselling scenarios
• Configuring a custom RAID profile
• Enabling two factor authentication (2FA) in Metalcloud
• Manually managing iSCSI connections
  • Retrieving the drive array’s connection details from the UI
  • Retriving iscsi access credentials using the CLI
  • Logging into the iSCSI target from Linux (CentOS/Redhat)
  • Logging into a drive on Windows using PowerShell
  • Prepare and format disk in Powershell
  • Disconnect from all iscsi targets in Windows using Powershell Or Just disconnect Offline target
  • Disable indexing on a drive in Powershell
• Setting delegation for reseller scenarios
  • Setting up users and permissions in a referral scenario when end-users own the infrastructures
  • Setting up users and permissions in a fully managed reseller scenario
  • Setting up users and permissions in a reseller scenario when end-users have access to infrastructures
• Forcing specific servers at deploy