Online resources
Information services page
http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/research-support/research-computing/ecdf/cloud
Research services wiki page
https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=ResearchServices&title=Eleanor+-+Research+Cloud
Quick start
https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/ResearchServices/Cloud+Quickstart
Service login
http://eleanor.cloud.ed.ac.uk/
Instructions on the quick start page
Login to the Web Dashboard
(the Domain field should be set to 'ed')
Create an SSH Key Pair
(or upload the public part of an existing key)
Launch an Instance
(select instances)
(launch instance)
Details Name 'one'
Zone 'nova'
Source Boot 'image'
Image 'Centos7'
Flavour + m1.small
Network + VM Network Private
Security default
SSH key + mykey
Custom -------
Server group -------
Scheduler -------
Metadata -------
Create instance
Action
Associate floating IP
Select IP address [+]
Pool
Floating Network Private (UoE access only)
>> Associate IP
....
>> Associate
SSH login
ssh centos@172.16.49.73
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Fix the DNS servers (NOT permanent)
#[root@virtual]
cat > /etc/resolv.conf << EOF
search roe.ac.uk
nameserver 129.215.166.13
nameserver 129.215.70.239
EOF
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Update the system.
#[root@virtual]
yum update -y