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  1. Open Infrastructure view by clicking the servers icon at the top of the main menu

  2. Go to Public

  3. Click the + add button at the bottom of the Public cloud regions list

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  4. Enter the Name of your public cloud region

  5. Select the Provider

  6. Select the Region to add. You can add more than one regionSCREENSHOT

    Select the public cloud region to addImage Added
  7. Click Next

  8. Select the Remote services. Abiquo uses Remote services to connect to the providers and manage the cloud.

    1. In the first IP address box, click the down arrow and select the Remote service URL from the pull-down list, or enter the URL of your Monolithic server

    2. Click the link to Duplicate IP addresses at the top of the popup

  9. Click Check all to check the connection to the remote services

     Add the remote services
  10. Click Save

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  1. Go to Users and edit the tenant enterprise

  2. To allow users of the tenant enterprise to deploy in the public cloud region, go to Datacenters, and check that the public cloud region is in the Allowed datacenters list. If not, drag it into the list.

    Allow an enterprise to access a public cloud provider or region
  3. Go to Credentials → Public

  4. Select the Provider

  5. Enter the Access key and the Secret access key. For more details, see Obtain AWS credentials

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  6. Click Add account.

  7. Click Save

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The tenant's account will be added for the provider and displayed in the public cloud view of the Infrastructure tab.

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  1. Open the Catalogue view by clicking the Catalogue icon

  2. Go to Select Public

  3. Select the public cloud region

  4. Click the import template button

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  5. Enter the ID of a template to import, or a Name text, for example Linux, because we recommend that you use a Linux template.

  6. Optionally, filter by template providers, for example, use the Canonical provider and search for an ubuntu template.

  7. Click Search

  8. Select a Template to import and click the import symbol beside the template

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  9. If your template has terms of use, accept them now or when you first deploy a VM from the template. 

    1. This requires the privilege to Manage virtual machine template terms of use and it enables programmatic deployment of the template for your Azure subscription.

      1. If you then disable programmatic deployment in the portal but you would like to deploy the template, you will need to delete it from the platform and import it again.

  10. To add default user details for remote access, select and edit the template

  11. Go to Advanced

    1. Optionally, select a Guest setup mode

    2. Select the template Operating system. For the latest version, do not set the OS version

    3. Enter a Username. For Linux, enter root. For Windows, enter Administrator and a password with at least 12 characters

      Edit Advanced options for VM template in AzureImage Added
  12. Click Save

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Create a resource group

To create a virtual datacenter in Azure, if you must first do not have a resource group, you must create a resource group. You can use resource groups to manage groups of related resources in the cloud provider. 

To create a resource group:

  1. Go To go to myCloudVirtual datacenters by clicking , click the cloud button

  2. Go to the Global → select section

  3. Select the Azure cloud provider

  4. Go to In Resource groupsClick ,click the + add button

  5. Complete the dialog . as described below

    Create a resource group in AzureImage RemovedCreate a resource group in AzureImage Added
    1. The Name must be unique in the subscription, which means in the enterprise

    2. Select the Region that will store the metadata of the resource group

  6. Click Save

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  1. To open the myCloud Virtual datacenters view, click the cloud icon

  2. Click the + add button at the top bottom of the Virtual Datacenters list and select

  3. Select Create virtual datacenter

  4. Enter a Name, and select the Public cloud region

  5. Select the Resource group

  6. Click Save

  7. To use VMs with a basic SKU load balancer, in your virtual datacenter, go to Network and create an Availability set

  8. Select the virtual datacenter and in the Virtual Appliances pane, click the + add button and enter the Name of the virtual appliance then click Save.

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