Create a virtual machine (Advanced Console)

This article will help you create a new virtual machine (or instance).

In the DataTenant Cloud, a virtual machine is called an 'instance'. This article will guide you on creating a new instance.

Prerequisites

In order to have a successful instance build, you'll want to make sure you have a few things squared away first.

• Ensure you have a keypair available to use. Your keypair will be used to grant you access to the virtual machine after it's been created.
  • If you need help creating a keypair, please review our Create a keypair article.

• Ensure you have an acceptable security group created for your network purposes.
  • If you want, you can accept the 'default' security group to get started and edit this later. But, best practice will always be to ensure you have a security group set up in advance and select it during provisioning. For help doing this, please review our Create or edit a security group article.

• Create a boot volume.
  • You must provision a boot volume in advance or your instance creation will fail. To do this, please review our Create a volume article.

• Create a network port (optional)
  • You can opt to have a network port auto-created during the instance creation process, but the IP address for the instance will be assigned at random. If you want to set a static IP address, please follow our article Create a network port.

Create a virtual machine (instance)

Login to the DataTenant Cloud. Navigate to the Project, Compute, Instances menu.

Click 'Launch Instance'.

Give your new instance a unique name. For instances other than virtual appliances, the name you provide here will be set as the hostname in the resulting instance OS.