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  1. Log in with the username and password supplied by Customer Service, or admin and xabiquo.

  2. Click the user icon button in the bottom left corner of the screen and select Edit user
    (OR go to Users view → Users and select and edit your user)

  3. Add an Email address and Phone number to receive notifications from the platform

  4. Go to Advanced andadd an SSH public key

    1. Azure currently supports SSH protocol 2 (SSH-2) RSA public-private key pairs with a minimum length of 2048 bits. Other key formats such as ED25519 and ECDSA are not supported.

    2. For more details see How to work with SSH keys

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Create a public cloud region

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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

    Steps to create a public cloud regionImage Added

  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 Azure credentials

    Add Azure credentialsImage Added

  6. Click Add account.

  7. Click Save

    Add tenant credentials for a public cloud providerImage Removed

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

    Click the import template buttonImage RemovedImport templates for AzureImage Added

  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

    To import a template, click the import symbol Image RemovedImport a template in AzureImage Added

  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. Select and edit the template

    1. The template name is the default name for the VM, so it may be helpful to rename it. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/resource-name-rules

    2. To add default user details for remote access,

    select and edit the templateGo

    1. 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. abiquo. You do not need to enter a password.
      For Windows, enter Administrator and a password with at least 12 characters

  11. Click Save

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To create a virtual datacenter in Azure, if you do not have a resource group, you must first 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 myCloud → Virtual 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

    Steps to create a virtual datacenter in AzureImage Added

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

  5. Select the Resource group

    Dialog to create a virtual datacenter in AzureImage Added

  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

    Create an availability set in AzureImage Added

  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.

    Create a virtual applianceImage Added

The virtual appliance you create will display in the Virtual Appliances list.

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Create a VM in

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Azure

When you create a VM in your virtual appliance, you can select from the compatible templates.

To connect to your VM in AWSAzure, you will need to add a public private IP address (an AWS Elastic IP), as well as a private public IP address in the public subnet.

  1. Click Open under the Virtual appliance name to To go into your virtual appliance, click Open under its Name.

    Open your virtual applianceImage Added

  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

      Select a template to create a VMImage Added

  3. Select an appropriate Hardware profile for your VM

  4. Select the Availability set

  5. Click Save

  6. Select a hardware profile for a VMImage Added

  7. On the VM icon from the options menu, select Edit

    Edit your VMImage Added

  8. Click Network → and select Private networks

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

    .Click Network → Public →

    1. Add a private IPImage Added

  9. Select Public and click Purchase public IP Then on the Purchase public IPs popup, click

    1. Click the + add button

    2. Select the Resource group and IP type

      Create a public IPImage Added

    3. Click Accept

    4. Select an IP address and click Add

  10. Drag the public IP into the NICs pane

Configure the VM network connections

If you would like to connect to a VM in public cloud, you will need to add a public IP address, as well as a private IP address in a public subnet (in AWS and OCI). If you don't configure the network, by default Abiquo will add a private IP address only and you probably won't be able to connect to your VM.

  1. On the VM icon from the options menu, select Edit

  2. Click Network → select Private networks. Select a Private network.
    In Amazon select subnet-xxxx, which is the public subnet. In OCI, also select a public subnet, which has an internet gateway. In GCP, select the subnet of the global network.

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

  4. Click Network → Public → Purchase public IP

  5. Then on the Purchase public IPs popup, click the + add button

  6. Select an IP address and click Add

  7. Drag the public IP into the NICs pane

    Configure VM network connectionsImage Removed

    . Select the VNIC Sequence of 0 and click Accept

    Add a public IP to the VMImage Added

  8. Click Save

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

    Go back to the virtual datacenterImage Added

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Configure the VM firewall for public cloud

To connect to a VM in public cloud, create a firewall to allow access. Because this VM will only be active for a very short time, we will use basic default settings.

To create a firewall in AWS Azure do these steps.

  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, and select the Location and Virtual datacenter

    Create a firewallImage Removed

    Edit the Firewall rules and select 

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

    Edit the firewall rulesImage Added

  5. For Inbound

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

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

    3. Click Add

      Enter an inbound firewall ruleImage Added

  6. Go to Outbound, select All traffic, click Add, then click Save.

    Enter firewall rulesImage Removed

    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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Deploy the virtual appliance in public cloud

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To deploy the virtual appliance

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

    From the virtual appliance options menu, select DeployImage Added

  • OR From inside the virtual appliance, click the Deploy virtual appliance button

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  • . You can also deploy a VM on its own with the Deploy VM button.

    Deploy a virtual applianceImage Added

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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You can connect using SSH for Linux or RDP or another appropriate methodfor Windows.

  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 Default the default credentialskey button

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

    Get remote access credentials and connect to your VMImage Added

  5. A console should open to allow you to log in 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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    Enter credentials for Linux remote access on AzureImage Added

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

    A Linux VM console on AzureImage Added

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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