Export Instance

How to export a Instance from Cube.COS

Connect to admin console with SSH

$ ssh admin@IPADDRESS
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.X.X' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Password:
Welcome to the Cube Appliance
Enter "help" for a list of available commands
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controller>

Export Instance

controller> image
controller:image> export_instance

Select domain:

1: default
Enter index: 1

Select tenant:

1: admin
2: bigstack
Enter index: 2

Select instance:

1: Webserver
Enter index: 1

Output format

Is the instance installed apt - qemu-guest-agent?
Is a requirement for this operation
Enter 'YES' to confirm: YES
Select output format:
1: vmdk
2: raw
Enter index: 1

Select output destination:

1: usb
2: local
Enter index: 2

Export in progress

[13:36:55] fetch Webserver disk information ... done
[13:37:02] upload Webserver disk 0 (volume: 92b0808f-ffd3-4639-90eb-dfcc237e6b08) to image repository . done
[13:37:19] download uploaded image to file /mnt/cephfs/glance/Webserver-export-ea54737a-20220127-133655-disk0.raw ...
[=============================>] 100%
[13:37:24] convert to /mnt/cephfs/glance/Webserver-export-ea54737a-20220127-133655-disk0.vmdk ...
    (100.00/100%)
[13:37:24] delete uploaded image ... done
Exporting Webserver complete. It is safe to remove the local image file.