Hosts Are bare-metal machines that host VM's. This is available for Oracle customers in their tenancy.
Prerequisites
Have a softdrive Admin account
Be an Oracle customer
1. View & Host
Log in to the Softdrive Dashboard
Open a browser and go to:
http://softnet.softdrive.co/Log in with your administrator or user credentials.
Navigate to the Hosts tab
In this tab you will be able to visualize all organization Hosts. Each item shows basic details from each Host. At the bottom from each host you will have the model. In order to identify the specs from a specific model please go to:
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/computeshapes.htm
By clicking on a Host you can see the status, the region and all the VM's that belong to the HOST among its features. Those VM can be accessed from that window.
2. Create a Host
1. Log in to the Softdrive Dashboard
Open a browser and go to:
http://softnet.softdrive.co/Log in with your administrator or user credentials.
2. Navigate to the hosts tab and click on the plus button on the top right side
3. You will see a pop up to choose the Region and type settings.
Type allows you to select different HOST configurations with varying CPU, GPU, and RAM resources. For detailed specifications of the available HOSTS in Softdrive, please refer to this Oracle link.
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/computeshapes.htm