Viewing suspend billing feature
From your Device List, you can see what virtual server instances are using the suspend billing feature. Use the following steps to see which of your devices support suspend billing.
Your virtual server instances must be configured with the following settings to support the suspend billing feature.
- Hourly SAN
- A public profile from one of the following families
- Balanced
- Compute
- Memory
- Variable compute
Before you begin
First, go to the device menu and make sure that you have the correct account permissions to complete the task.
- Go to your console's device menu. For more information, see Navigating to devices.
- Make sure that you have any necessary account permissions and device access. Only the account owner, or a user with the Manage Users classic infrastructure permission, can adjust the permissions.
For more information about permissions, see Managing device access.
Viewing the suspend billing feature
To determine whether your virtual server instance supports the suspend billing feature, use the following steps:
- From the Devices menu, select Device List.
- From the Device List, click the name of your virtual server instance.
- In the Instance details section, you can view whether your virtual server instance supports the suspend billing feature.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Suspend billing: Enabled on Power Off | Suspend billing is supported. |
| Suspend billing: Not available | Suspend billing is not supported. |
Viewing the suspend billing feature through the IBM Cloud® API
The following command is an example request of verifying whether your virtual server instance supports the suspend billing feature through the IBM Cloud® API.
The following JSON request and response is a generic example.
curl -X GET \
https://$SOFTLAYER_USERNAME:$SOFTLAYER_API_KEY@api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest/<VSI ID>/getAttributes.json
The following example is the JSON response to the request:
[{"value":"1","type":{"keyname":"SUSPENDED_BILLING","name":"Suspended Billing"}}]
For more information, see the SLDN API documentation.
Next steps
For more information about the suspend billing feature, see the following information: