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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 Azure credentials

    Add Azure credentials
  6. Click Add account

  7. Click Save

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  1. To go into your virtual appliance, click Open under its Name.

    Open your virtual appliance
  2. To create a VM, click Create virtual machine and select a VM template

    1. For the Name, enter a user-friendly name for the VM that meets provider criteria

    2. Select the Availability set

    3. Click Save

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  3. Select an appropriate Hardware profile for your VM

    Select a hardware profile for a VM
  4. On the VM icon from the options menu, select Edit

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  5. Click Network and select Private networks

    1. Drag the Auto-generated IP label into the NICs pane

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  6. Select Public and click Purchase public IP

    1. Click the + add button

    2. Select the Resource group and IP type

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    3. Click Accept

    4. Select an IP address and click Add

  7. Drag the public IP into the NICs pane. Select the VNIC Sequence of 0 and click Accept

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  8. Click Save

  9. To go out of the virtual appliance, click the Name of the virtual datacenter or the myCloud icon

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Configure the VM firewall for public cloud

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  1. Go to myCloud Virtual datacenters → Networks → Firewalls

  2. Select the virtual datacenter

  3. Click the + add button to create a firewall for connections and enter the Name

  4. Select the firewall and click the pencil edit button to add the Firewall rules

    Edit the firewall rules
  5. For Inbound

    1. From Common protocols for a Linux VM, select SSH and/or for a Windows VM, select RDP

    2. Allow incoming connections from your IP address. Or for a temporary test system, allow all connections.

    3. Click Add

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  6. Go to Outbound, select All traffic, click Add, then click Save.
    The platform will create the firewall.

  7. Go to Virtual appliances and on the virtual appliance and click on Open 

  8. Edit your VM

  9. Go to Networks → Firewall

  10. Select your firewall and click Save.

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  • From outside the virtual appliance, on the options menu, select Deploy.

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  • OR From inside the virtual appliance, click the Deploy virtual appliance button. You can also deploy a VM on its own with the Deploy VM button.

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The platform will deploy all the VMs and power them on. You can select the VMs and manage them with the control buttons in the lower right corner of the screen.

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  1. Go to Virtual datacenters and open the Virtual appliance

  2. Select the VM

  3. To obtain the default username (and password for Windows), go to the General tab of the VM control panel and click the default credentials key button

  4. To open the remote connection, click the console button

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  5. A console should open to allow you to connect to your VM. The platform will automatically complete the Username.

  6. For Linux VMs, enter the SSH private key (also called the Decryption key).
    For Windows VMs on Azure, enter the Password.

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    The console will open to let you work on your VM.

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If you cannot connect due to an unsecured certificate error, open a new tab in the same browser, enter the host IP of the VM, and accept the certificate.

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