ovhcloud_cloud_instance_shelve.md

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ovhcloud cloud instance shelve

Shelve the given instance

Synopsis

The resources dedicated to the Public Cloud instance are released. The data of the local storage will be stored, the duration of the operation depends on the size of the local disk. The instance can be unshelved at any time. Meanwhile hourly instances will not be billed. The Snapshot Storage used to store the instance's data will be billed.

ovhcloud cloud instance shelve <instance_id> [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for shelve

Options inherited from parent commands

      --cloud-project string   Cloud project ID
  -d, --debug                  Activate debug mode (will log all HTTP requests details)
  -e, --ignore-errors          Ignore errors in API calls when it is not fatal to the execution
  -o, --output string          Output format: json, yaml, interactive, or a custom format expression (using https://github.com/PaesslerAG/gval syntax)
                               Examples:
                                 --output json
                                 --output yaml
                                 --output interactive
                                 --output 'id' (to extract a single field)
                                 --output 'nested.field.subfield' (to extract a nested field)
                                 --output '[id, "name"]' (to extract multiple fields as an array)
                                 --output '{"newKey": oldKey, "otherKey": nested.field}' (to extract and rename fields in an object)
                                 --output 'name+","+type' (to extract and concatenate fields in a string)
                                 --output '(nbFieldA + nbFieldB) * 10' (to compute values from numeric fields)
      --profile string         Use a specific profile from the configuration file

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