Expire an instance

You can set an expiration date to delete unneeded instances. Instance expiration dates can help:

• Improve security by ensuring that virtual machines are updated.

• Manage your limited virtual resources.

• Ensure new instances are available when required.

• Save your organization money.

You can set expiration dates to 1, 3, 6, or 12 months from the most recent day that all of the instance's nodes are stopped. Set this limit when creating the instance, but you can change it any time before the instance is automatically deleted.

Expiration and deletion dates

The instance expires on the earlier of the user-selected expiration date and the suite role deletion date.

Expiration period and suite role deletion date

The system calculates the instance expiration date based on the user-selected expiration period. The following scenarios determine the expiration date:

• If the expiration period date is after the suite role deletion date, the suite role deletion date takes priority, and the instance expires on that date.

• If the expiration period date is before the suite role deletion date, the expiration period date takes priority, and the instance expires on the expiration period date.

Notes

• Upcoming expirations appear in the AVEVA Integration Studio notification hub. You can also change an instance's expiration period from the notification panel until the expiration day.

• AVEVA Integration Studio emails you a list of instances near their expiration.

• When an instance expires and is deleted, it cannot be recovered. You can only create the instance anew.

• While the instance is running:

  • You cannot delete any of its nodes.

  • Node expiration dates are not visible.

• If you restart a stopped instance, its expiration timer restarts. For example, consider an instance created on January 1 with a 3 month expiration period. You stop it on February 1, then restart it on April 1 and stopp it again on May 1. Its new expiration date is extended to July 31.

Extend or shorten the expiration period of a stopped instance

1. Select Change.

   

   The Change expiration date dialog appears.

   

2. Change the Expiration period to a new value.

3. Select Save.

   Warning: If the new expiration period is shorter than the old one, the instance may be deleted immediately.