Stopping and restarting your clusters allows you to save all of your Streams, Destinations, and Production Instances while limiting your AWS fees when you’re not using them.
When a cluster is stopped, it will halt everything in the cluster, like Streams, Destinations, and Production Instances.
Click on the Stop icon towards the right of the Cluster menu to stop the cluster.
It can take a few minutes to fully stop the cluster. The Status icon will turn yellow while it is stopping the cluster, then turn gray once it’s completely stopped.
While the Cluster is stopped, all Streams, Destinations, and Production Instances will be grayed out.
You will not be able to see details, delete, or edit anything.
You will also be unable to create any new Streams, Destinations, Multiviews, DVR Recordings, Clips, or Production Instances.
You will be able to view existing multiviews, but the preview screens will be empty.
You can preview existing DVR Recordings and Clips.
The menu will only display active streams if you have other active clusters running.
Go back to the Cluster tab and click on the Start icon to restart the cluster.
The cluster’s status icon will turn yellow while it is starting up, then turn green once it’s fully restarted.
VVCR will generate new IP Addresses for everything in the cluster unless you enabled Persistent IP in the cluster creation menu.
Persistent IP Addresses:
VVCR gives you the option to enable Persistent IP Addresses to keep the same IP addresses after stopping and starting the cluster.
If you don’t enable this, VVCR will generate new IP addresses every time you restart the cluster.
You have a limited number of addresses per region. This is determined by the number of elastic IP addresses enabled on your AWS account. By default, every account has 5 available addresses per region.
The available addresses will be listed in the Persistent IP dropdown menu. To enable Persistent IP, select an IP address.
If you use the Manual Cluster Creation page, follow the same steps. Click on the Persistent IP dropdown menu and select an IP Address.