Launching Virtual Machines

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This tutorial is part of the Cloud Starter Series.

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Category: Beginner

Difficulty: 1 out of 5

Duration: 25 minutes

1. Overview 2. Starting the Launch Dialog 3. Details, Source and Flavor 4. Networks, Security Groups and Key Pair 5. Launch Instance 6. Next Steps

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Next Steps

You have:

  • Launched a virtual machine in the Nectar Research cloud
  • Used the Launch Dialog from the Nectar dashboard.
  • Selected a virtual machine Image
  • Applied your Security Group/s & your public key
  • Applied basic networking using the classic network provider

Upon successful launch your Nectar dashboard shows an active running instance on the instances page. Your instance now has an IP address.

Call Security!
Now you’ve got your first VM running, it’s a good time to also be aware of Security measures on the Nectar Cloud! We have checklists and documentation for you to follow here.

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Congratulations!! You’ve completed a Launch. Your first? Now what? Our next tutorial will show you how to connect to your instance using SSH and terminal software.
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