Edinburgh Eleanor - Research Cloud

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Quick start instructions

Based on the Quick Start instructions

Login to the Web Dashboard (setting the domain to 'ed')

Register a SSH key

If you already have a SSH key of your own you can upload it.

Create an SSH Key Pair (or upload an existing key)

Create an instance

Launch an instance, by selecting 'Instances' in the left hand navigation, and then select the 'Launch Instance' button on the right.

Details panel

Give you VM a name
Select 'nova' as the zone
Set count to 1

Source panel

Select 'Boot Image' from the source drop down.

Add the image you want to use, e.g. Centos7, by clicking on the plus sign.

Flavour panel

Add the 'flavour' (size) of VM you want by clicking on the plus sign. Note - free accounts are only allowed t1.tiny.

Network panel

Add the network that you want the VM to be connected to. For internal use, select 'VM Network Private'

Network Ports

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Security panel

Check the VM is in the 'Default security group'

Key Pair panel

Add your ssh key to your VM, by clicking on the plus sign.

Configuration

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Server groups

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Scheduler

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Metadata

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Create the VM

Click on the big blue 'Launch Instance' button to launch your VM instance.

Configure network

To configure the network connection, select 'Associate floating IP' from the 'Actions list for your VM instance.

Click on the plus sign to allocate a new IP address for your VM instance to use.

Select 'Floating Network Private (UoE access only)' as the pool, and then click the big blue 'Allocate IP' button.

Finally, click the big blue 'Associate' button to associate the allocated IP address with your VM instance.

You should now be able to login to your VM instance via ssh.

Note - the user name is derived from the OS name of the image, so for a Centos7 image, login as 'cenos', for a Ubuntu-16 image login as 'ubuntu'.

    ssh centos@172.16.49.33

Configure DNS

By default the DNS settings in the VM are not set correctly

Execute the following commands to reapir the settings.

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# 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