Overview

Virtual Machines is the compute service in DCP for provisioning and operating virtual machine instances.

In the DCP Console, this product appears under Services → Compute → Instances.

Product scope

• Instance provisioning and lifecycle management
• Instance metadata visibility (status, image, placement, identifiers)
• SSH key management for access control
• Snapshot creation and deletion
• Backup enablement, scheduling configuration, manual triggers, and deletion

Functional areas

• Instances: account-level inventory and lifecycle operations
• Snapshots: account-level and instance-level snapshot records
• SSH Keys: account-level public key registry
• Backup: account-level and instance-level backup operations

Instance details expose additional operational context:

• Overview
• Snapshots
• Backups

Access and prerequisites

• Ensure you have access to Virtual Machines in your account
• Register at least one SSH key before production provisioning
• Review current Limits & Quotas

Next steps

• Launch an Instance
• Connect with SSH
• Manage Snapshots
• Manage Backups
• Manage SSH Keys