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  • Server
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    • Benchmarking
    • Monitor metrics
    • Recover instances
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  • Instances
    • About instances
    • Create instances
    • Manage instances
    • Configure instances
    • Back up instances
    • Use profiles
    • Use cloud-init
    • Run commands
    • Access the console
    • Access files
    • Add a routed NIC to a VM
    • Troubleshoot errors
    • Instance configuration
      • Instance properties
      • Instance options
      • Devices
        • Standard devices
        • Type: none
        • Type: nic
        • Type: disk
        • Type: unix-char
        • Type: unix-block
        • Type: usb
        • Type: gpu
        • Type: infiniband
        • Type: proxy
        • Type: unix-hotplug
        • Type: tpm
        • Type: pci
      • Units for storage, memory and network limits
    • Container environment
    • Migration
      • Move instances
      • Import existing machines
      • Migrate from LXC
  • Storage
    • About storage
    • Manage pools
    • Create an instance in a pool
    • Manage volumes
    • Move or copy a volume
    • Back up a volume
    • Manage buckets
    • Storage drivers
      • Directory - dir
      • Btrfs - btrfs
      • LVM - lvm
      • ZFS - zfs
      • Ceph RBD - ceph
      • CephFS - cephfs
      • Ceph Object - cephobject
      • LINSTOR - linstor
        • Setup LINSTOR
        • Driver internals
      • TrueNAS - truenas
  • Networks
    • About networking
    • Create and configure a network
    • Configure a network
    • Configure network ACLs
    • Configure network address sets
    • Configure network forwards
    • Configure network integrations
    • Configure network zones
    • Configure Incus as BGP server
    • Display Incus IPAM information
    • Bridge network
      • Integrate with resolved
      • Configure your firewall
    • OVN network
      • Set up OVN
      • Create routing relationships
      • Configure network load balancers
    • External networks
      • Macvlan network
      • SR-IOV network
      • Physical network
    • Increase bandwidth
  • Images
    • About images
    • Use remote images
    • Manage images
    • Copy and import images
    • Create images
    • Associate profiles
    • Image format
    • Default image server
  • Projects
    • About projects
    • Create and configure projects
    • Work with different projects
    • Confine projects to users
    • Project configuration
  • Clustering
    • About clustering
    • Form a cluster
    • Access a cluster
    • Manage a cluster
    • Recover a cluster
    • Manage cluster groups
    • Manage instances
    • Configure storage
    • Configure networks
    • Cluster member configuration
  • API
    • Main API documentation
    • Main API specification
    • Main API extensions
    • Instance API documentation
    • Events API documentation
    • Metrics API documentation
  • Security
    • About security
    • Remote API authentication
    • Authorization
    • Expose Incus to the network
  • Internals
    • Daemon behavior
    • Debug Incus
    • Requirements
    • Packaging recommendations
    • Environment variables
    • System call interception
    • User namespace setup
    • Configuration option index
  • Contributing
    • Introduction
    • Contribute to the code
    • Contribute to the documentation
  • External resources
    • Project repository
    • Image server
    • Third party tools
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