Rebooting Instances

You can reboot a running instance at any time if needed, which corresponds to rebooting the operating system. When rebooting, the instance restarts without going through the stop and start process.

Rebooting an Instance Using Cockpit v1

  1. Click Compute > Instances.

  2. Click the running instance you want to reboot.

    Multiselection is available.

    The instance is selected.

  3. Click Restart .
    The selected instance is rebooted.

Rebooting a VM Using Cockpit v2-beta

  1. Click inside the VMs dashboard to make checkboxes appear.

  2. Check the box of the running VM you want to reboot.

    Multiselection is available.

    The VM is selected and an action menu appears.

  3. Click IconReboot Reboot.
    The selected VM is rebooted.

Rebooting VMs Using OSC CLI

See the RebootVms command sample in the documentation of the OUTSCALE API.

Rebooting Instances Using AWS CLI

To reboot one or more instances, use the reboot-instances command following this syntax:

Request sample
$ aws ec2 reboot-instances \
    --profile YOUR_PROFILE \
    --instance-ids i-87654321 i-12345678 \
    --endpoint https://fcu.eu-west-2.outscale.com

This command contains the following attributes that you need to specify:

  • (optional) profile: The named profile you want to use, created when configuring AWS CLI. For more information, see Installing and Configuring AWS CLI.

  • instance-ids: One or more instance IDs.

  • endpoint: The endpoint corresponding to the Region you want to send the request to.

The specified instances reboot.

Related Pages

Corresponding API Methods

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