Using the ibmcloud CLI, how do I specify Suspended billing?
I am trying to create two identical VM instances, the first via the GUI and the second via the ibmcloud CLI.
Classic Infrastructure.
CLI command:
ibmcloud sl vs create -H ibm -D example.com -c 1 -m 2048 -d dal13 -o UBUNTU_18_64 --disk 25 --san
When I compare the two instances in the GUI, they are identical except for hostname, IP addresses and Suspended billing. The are also identical when using the CLI command ibmcloud sl vs detail ID.
The problem I am trying to solve is: instances created with the CLI have Suspending billing as Unavailable. Instances created thru the GUI have Suspended billing as Enabled on Power Off.
This link is the documentation that I am using for creating an instance with the CLI. No mention of Suspended billing options.
I solved this problem, but I am very open to additional information. Please comment if you know the link to any documentation on this matter.
It appears that you must select a preconfigured virtual server instance type called "flavor" to enabled suspended billing. I could not find any clear documentation on this, but I saw this in API calls link.
I found this command which lists the flavors available:
ibmcloud sl vs options
This CLI command creates an instance with suspended billing enabled. Notice the use of the --flavor command line option:
ibmcloud sl vs create -H ibm2 -D example.com --flavor B1_1X2X25 -d dal13 -o UBUNTU_18_64 --san