Skip to content

SoftIron Documentation

New Features

Initializing search

Home
HyperCloud
HyperCloud Legacy
New
Appliances
Releases
Advisories

SoftIron Documentation

Home
HyperCloud
HyperCloud
- Getting Started
  Getting Started
  - Deploy HyperCloud
    
    Deploy HyperCloud
    
    Rack Layout
    
    Interconnect Setup
    
    HyperCloud Setup
    
    Customer Uplinks
    
    Reset to Factory
  - Cluster Management
  - Create a Virtual Machine
  - How To
    How To
    
    NVIDIA GRID
    
    Create Images from ISO
    
    Create Win10 Template
    
    Create Win11 Template
    
    Configure Syslog
    
    Upgrade HyperCloud
    
    Upgrade HyperCloud
    
    HyperCloud upgrade prior to 2.1
    HyperCloud upgrade prior to 2.1
    
    HyperCloud upgrade to version 2.2 from before 2.1
    
    Legacy firmware upgrade
- Glasshouse GUI
  Glasshouse GUI
  - Dashboard
    
    Dashboard
    
    Virtual Machines
    Virtual Machines
    
    Shutdown, Undeploy and Terminate
    
    Infrastructure
    
    System
    System
    
    Users and Groups
    
    Virtual Data Centers (VDCs)
    
    Cluster
    Cluster
    
    General
    
    Updating the UI Certificate
    
    Dashboard SSH Keys
  - AI Chatbot
- User Guide
  User Guide
  - Authentication and access
    Authentication and access
    
    Logging in
    
    SSH Keys
    
    User Authentication
    
    Users
    
    Groups
    
    VDCs
    
    Dashboard Admin Password
    
    Setting an SSH Banner
    
    Modifying SSH Cipher
    
    Enabling Cloud Federation
  - Compute
    Compute
    
    Virtual Machines
    
    Virtual Machines
    
    Scheduling Instances
    
    Shutdown, Undeploy and Terminate
    
    Change Syslog Protocol
    
    VM States
    
    Resource Allocation
    
    Autoscaling Services
    
    Load Balancers
    
    Updating UI Certificate
    
    Configuring Client Certificate
    
    Changing Dashboard Admin Password
    
    Enabling Cluster-wide Syslog
    
    NVIDIA GRID
    
    Cloud Bursting
    
    Cloud Bursting
    
    Amazon EC2
    
    Amazon EC2 Reference
    
    Troubleshooting
    Troubleshooting
    
    VMs Wrong Group
    
    Restoring Replicated VMs
  - Marketplaces
    Marketplaces
    
    SoftIron Marketplaces
    
    Marketplace Images Offline
    
    Creating Apps
    
    Custom Marketplaces
  - Containers
    Containers
    
    Enabling LXD Containers
    
    Kubernetes with K3s
  - Images and backups
    
    Images and backups
    
    Creating Templates
    
    Building from ISO
    
    Building with libguestfs
    
    One Context Refresh
    
    Creating a Windows Image Template
    
    Managing Backups
    
    Restoring Large Replicated Volumes
    
    Snapshots
    
    Snapshots
    
    Backups service
    
    Local Snapshot Usage
    
    Remote Snapshot Usage
    
    Archive Snapshot Usage
    
    Snapshot System State
  - Networking
    Networking
    
    Security Groups
    
    Virtual Networks
    
    Virtual Routers
    
    Dashboard Node IP
    
    Static Routes
    
    Manual DNS Entry
    
    DNS with Dnsmasq (GitHub)
    
    Configure MTU
    
    Network Initialization
    
    Change Syslog Protocol
    
    Troubleshooting
    Troubleshooting
    
    Firewall Drops Packets
    
    Bridging Loop
  - Storage
    Storage
    
    Datastores
    
    Managing Files
    
    EC Datastores
    
    VirtIO-SCSI
    
    Bcache Devices
    
    Shared Block Storage
    
    Block IO Size
    
    Bcache Tuneables
    
    Filesystem Usage
    
    Remote and Backup List and Import
    
    Object Storage with MinIO
    
    Full Disk Encryption
    
    TrueNAS Integration
    
    Troubleshooting
    Troubleshooting
    
    Recovering Corrupted Monitor
    
    Recovering Failed Disk
    
    Restoring Replicated VMs
    
    ARM Node Boot Failure
  - Cluster management
    Cluster management
    
    Setting Dashboard CPU, Memory, and rootfs
    
    Pausing Storage
    
    Shutting Down Cluster
    
    Accounting
    Accounting
    
    Accounting Client
    
    Showback
    
    IPMI
    
    Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
    
    Prometheus Exporter Python Package
    
    Hot Patching
    Hot Patching
    
    Creating Hot Patches
    
    Installing Hot Patches
    
    Expunging Hot Patches
    
    Listing Hot Patches
    
    Automatic Patching Rules
    
    Emergency Hot Patching
  - External Clouds
    External Clouds
    
    S3 Documentation
    
    Amazon EC2
    
    Amazon EC2 Reference
  - Command Line
    
    Command Line
    
    Accounting
    
    Access-control lists
    
    Cluster
    
    Datastore
    
    Group
    
    Hook
    
    Host
    
    Image
    
    Market
    
    Marketplace appliances
    
    Security groups
    
    Showback
    
    Template
    
    User
    
    vCenter
    
    Virtual datacenter
    
    Virtual machine
    
    Virtual network
    
    Virtual Network template
    
    Virtual Router
    
    Zone
- Manifold API
  Manifold API
  - Interacting with Manifold
  - HyperShell
- Further Reading
  Further Reading
  - Problem
  - Design Goals
  - Architecture
    Architecture
    
    Hardware Management
    
    Networking
    
    Storage
    
    Virtualization
    
    Containerization
    
    Service Catalog
    
    Tenancy Management
    
    Management
    
    Reference Configuration
HyperCloud Legacy
HyperCloud Legacy
- Getting Started
  Getting Started
- Glasshouse GUI
  Glasshouse GUI
  - Dashboard
    
    Dashboard
  - Turbine Hypervisor
    
    Turbine Hypervisor
    
    VM SSH Keys
    
    VM Passwords
  - Neutron Storage
    
    Neutron Storage
    
    Block IO Size
    
    Optimizing VM disks
  - Electron Network
    
    Electron Network
    
    Virtual Networks
  - Amplifier Marketplace
    
    Amplifier Marketplace
    
    Accessing Amplifier images offline
  - Catalyst Importer
    
    Catalyst Importer
  - AI Chatbot
- Command Line
  Command Line
  - Dashboard commands
    Dashboard commands
    
    cluster-reboot
    
    decom-node
    
    hypercloud
    
    install-ai-model
    
    manage-admin-password
    
    manage-catalyst-ssh-keys
    
    manage-ldap
    
    manage-networking
    
    manage-nfs
    
    manage-tls-certificate
    
    nvidia-grid-install
    
    nvidia-grid-uninstall
    
    set-syslog-protocol
    
    sifi
    
    ssh
    
    upgrade
  - Host commands
    Host commands
    
    dashboard-console
    
    manage-iscsi.md
    
    vm
  - cluster-manage
  - debug
  - halt
  - help
  - image
  - manage-cluster-name
  - manage-disk-encryption
  - manage-license
  - manage-ssh-keys
  - pager
  - reboot
  - setterm
  - show-current-config
  - storage
  - uptime
  - version
- Manifold API
  Manifold API
  - Interacting with Manifold
- Troubleshooting
  Troubleshooting
  - Known issues
  - Hardware specific issues
New
New
- NVIDIA GRID
- AI Chatbot
Appliances
Appliances
Releases
Releases
- HyperCloud
- Appliances
Advisories

New Features

This section details new features in HyperCloud.

Learn how to use NVIDIA GRID
Enable AI Help with AI Chatbot

Hardware specific issues

Copyright © SoftIron Limited 2026. All rights reserved.