Overview of Kyndryl Cloud Uplift
- Service limits for Kyndryl Cloud Uplift
Access requirements
Creating environments
- Creating an environment from a template
  - Using public templates
- Copying environments
- Copying environments with running VMs (live clone)
  - Quiescing VM activity
- Building a VM from an ISO
Importing VMs
- Preparing Power LPARs for import
- Preparing x86 VMs and vApps for import
  - Creating MD5 hash values for VM imports
- Importing VMs using the VM Imports page
  - Retrying a failed import
- Importing Power LPARs
- Testing imported VMs
- Resolving import errors
Running and stopping VMs
Accessing VMs
- Accessing VM desktops from a browser
- Accessing VMs with RDP
Transferring files to a VM
- Adding and sharing files with the Assets page
- Using ISO files
- Using ISO files with an AIX LPAR
- Using Kyndryl Cloud Uplift public assets
Editing environments and environment networks
- Adding VMs to an environment
- Multi-attach storage for Power VM environments
- Locking environments
Editing VMs
- Hardware settings for IBM i VMs
  - Editing vCPUs and RAM for IBM i VMs
  - License settings for IBM i VMs
- Hardware settings for AIX and Linux on Power VMs
  - Editing vCPUs and RAM for AIX and Linux on Power VMs
  - License settings for AIX and Linux on Power VMs
- Hardware settings for x86 VMs
- VM network settings
- Storing VM credentials
- Licensing the guest OS
- Installing and upgrading VMware Tools - Linux
- Installing and upgrading VMware Tools - Windows
- Improving operating system or application performance within the VM
Using containers in Kyndryl Cloud Uplift
- Getting started with containers
- About the container host
- Creating a container host
  - Enable IP address forwarding for a container host
- Adding containers to a container host
- Managing individual containers
- Containers: Known issues
- Troubleshooting the VM Agent
Managing networks
- Network overview
  - Default host-naming behavior
  - What is the difference between automatic and manual networks?
- Viewing the network topology for an environment
- Using multiple networks in an environment
- Networking between environments
  - Using NAT to avoid IP address conflicts
- Editing an automatic network
  - Editing the network NAT subnet
- Connecting an environment network to a VPN or Private Network Connection
- Manually configuring domain name servers
- Exposing and blocking public Internet access to VMs
- Deleting a network
- Moving a VM to a different environment
- Deleting VMs
Sharing VMs and environments with sharing portals
- Creating a sharing portal
- Using a VM or environment from a sharing portal URL
- Finding and sharing the URL for a sharing portal
- Exporting sharing portal information and URLs
- Disabling or deleting a sharing portal
Sharing resources with projects
- Creating and deleting projects
- Adding and removing environments
- Adding and removing templates
- Adding and removing assets
- Adding and removing users
- Adding and removing groups
- Understanding project roles
- Finding project resources
Adding a shared template to your account
Saving an environment as a template
- Copying a template
- Deleting templates
Understanding regions
- Changing your default region
- Copying an environment to another region
- Copying a template to another region
- What to expect when you copy an environment or template
Managing your account settings
- Changing your password
- Changing your user account time zone
- Finding your primary administrator
- Finding your user role
- Finding your user name and API token
- Resetting your API token
Viewing your current usage and usage limits
- Viewing recent activity for an environment
Best practices
- Automating VMs and environments
- CI/CD reference architectures
- IBM i Data Protection and Resiliency Solutions
  - IBM i backup and restore
  - IBM i disaster recovery and high availability
- Creating recovery copies of VMs and environments
- Disaster recovery reference architectures
- Monitoring your usage with email notifications
- Organizing resources with labels and tags
- Security best practices
- Using Kyndryl Cloud Uplift for demos
- Using Kyndryl Cloud Uplift for training classes
Knowledge base
- Security improvements: Deprecation and end of life (EOL) notices
- How to add notes to VMs, environments, templates, and assets
- How to change the name of a VM
- How to change the name or description of an environment
- How to check VM hardware version
- How to connect to a VM from an iPad or iPhone
- How to connect to Kyndryl Cloud Uplift using a private WAN connection
- How to delete environments
- How to export a list of environments, templates, or assets
- How to export VMs
- How to find the ID for a VM, VPN, environment, or template
- How to find the Instance URL for a Kyndryl Cloud Uplift on Azure account
- How to find the IP addresses for a VM
- How to find the network gateway IP address
- How to find your user name and API security token
- How to generate an API security token for your account
- Guide to the Dashboard
- Protecting a VM that is exposed to the internet or compromised
- Time zones and UTC offsets
- Understanding storage
- Using search
- Using Windows in Kyndryl Cloud Uplift
  - Fixing duplicate SID errors for Windows networking
  - Resolving prompts to reactivate a Windows license
  - Running a Windows domain
- Using Power VMs in Kyndryl Cloud Uplift
  - Differences between Power and x86 VMs
  - IBM i FAQ
  - Viewing system reference codes for an IBM i VM
  - Applying PTFs to an IBM i VM in Kyndryl Cloud Uplift
  - Manually refreshing IBM i licenses
  - Refreshing IBM i licenses with LICKEY
  - Booting an AIX VM into maintenance mode
  - Configuring TCP/IP network settings for an AIX VM
  - Connecting to an AIX VM with X Windows
  - Importing Power VM
  - Known issues for Power VMs
  - Preserving AIX disk numbering with ghostdev
  - Overview of Assure MIMIX™ Software
- Editing VMs outside of Kyndryl Cloud Uplift
  - Compressing VMX files to OVA for import
  - Converting a physical machine to a VM
  - Converting non-VMware-based VMs for import
  - Converting OVF files to VMX for use with VMware Converter
- Troubleshooting connections to a VM from a Windows 10 computer?
Troubleshooting

Managing individual containers

The container management feature in Kyndryl Cloud Uplift has been deprecated and will be disabled on November 30, 2026.
For more details, see Deprecation of Kyndryl Cloud Uplift container management.

After you’ve added containers to a container host, you can rename a container, change the run state of each container individually, view details about each container, and delete containers.

The following commands are available for each container:

(Rename this container) – Change the name of this container.

(Start/Unpause this container) – Start a container or resume this container.

(Pause this container) – Pause this container.

(Stop this container) – Gracefully stop this container

(More options) – Shows a drop-down menu with additional options for this container:

(Restart) – Stop and re-run this container.

(Kill) – Abruptly force stop this container.

(View log) – View the most recent entries to the log file for this container.

For more information about what information is logged, see docker logs.

(Delete) – Delete this container from the container host.

The container summary page

The container summary page displays detailed information about a container and provides controls to change the run state of the container.

summary

In addition to the run state commands, the following details are displayed for the container:

(Inspect container) – View the docker inspect report for this container.
(View log) – View the most recent entries to the log file for this container.
- Choose the number of lines to view from the drop-down.
  
  For more information about what information is logged, see docker logs
ID – The full ID of the container.
Created – The date and time that the container was created.
Started At – The date and time that the container was last started.
Image – What image created the container.
Privileged – Whether this container runs in Privileged mode.
Command – Arguments fed to the ENTRYPOINT.
Entry Point – The command that is always executed when this container starts.
Labels – Docker metadata labels attached to this container.
Network - IP address – The IP address of this container.
Ports – Port bindings for this container.

If you have mapped a host port to this container (see Port mapping), you can connect a Kyndryl Cloud Uplift published service (see Accessing VMs with published services) to this container.
Mounts – Filesystem mounts for this container.