Guide for establishing IXcloud at once

After completing sign up and adding members to project, you can access to management console and create network, key pair and instance.

You can refer to the following if you want to know more about the process after instance is launched.

• To see how to import key-pair and IP address assignment, you can refer to the page ☞ 'Access& Security components of instanse'

• To see how to manage the instance console for each Installed OS, you can refer to this ☞ ' Instance management console (Linux & Windows)'

*Process

1. How to create networks
2. How to create routers
3. How to add rules to a default security group
4. How to create key-pair
5. How to create Instances

1. Create networks

1. Click Log-in in the top right corner of the homepage and continue to the Cloud management console page.

               

2. On the Cloud management console page, click button after Project > Networks.

           

3. In the ‘Create Network’ dialog box, do the following:

       

Network tab

Network name: Type a distinguishable name of network.

       

         

Subnet tab

Create subnet: Please select the check box to create a subnet.

                     If you wish to create a network without a subnet, uncheck the "Create Subnet" checkbox.

Subnet name: Specify the name of subnet. In general, 192.168.0.0 or 10.0.0.0 is used as private bandwidth.

Network Address: Specify IP address of subnet.

IP Version: Select IPv4 or IPv6 as IP version.

Gateway IP: This is optional. If you have a specific gateway you want to use, specify the IP address.

                                                  If you use the default, leave the blank

Disable Gateway: If you don’t want use a gateway, check ‘Disable gateway’ box

   

       

Subnet Details tab

Enable DHCP: If you want use DHCP, select this check box.

Allocation Pools: Specify IP address pools. Each entry is: start_ip_address,end_ip_address (e.g.,168.1.100,192.168.1.120) and one entry per line.

DNS Name Servers:  Specify DNS name server for this subnet.(’ 8.8.8.8’ is the name server of Google)

Host Routes: Specify additional routers to the hosts.

Each entry is: destination_cidr, nexthop (e.g.,192.168.200.0/24,10.56.1.254) and one entry per line.

4. When you click button, you can see the page saying ‘creation is completed’;
   You can check created  networks.

2. Create a router

1. Click button after Project > Networks > Routers.

2. In the ‘Create router’ dialog box, specify the name of routers and click button.

3. Click button of the created router on the ‘Router’ page.
   
   

4. Select a network in ‘External Network’ tab, to which router connects and then, click.

5. If you want to connect the created  router to the private network, do the following:

1. Click the ‘Name of router’ on the Routers page.

 

2. Click button in the interface tab on the ‘Router Details’ page.

3. In the ‘Add interface’ dialog box, do the following:
   
   

Subnet: Select a subnet.

IP address: Type a ‘router interface- IP address’ of selected subnet.

    - If you do not fill this blank, the first IP address of the subnet will be used.
 

6. Click button.

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You can see the created router in ‘Network technology’ as well.

The router called ‘test_plan_routers’ has been created; this is connected to external network. (ext-net)

3. Add rules to the security group

This process allow SSH and  ICMP(Ping) to access to Instance.

Rules of security group apply to the all instances in the project and they must be set to each project, except in the case of preventing access using SSH and  ICMP.

When you add rules, please specify the protocol being used  for the destination port or source port.

1. In the IXcloud console management, click button after Project > Compute > Access& Security.

2. To allow SSH access, click button.

3. In the ‘Add Rule’ dialog box, do the following:

Rule: Select SSH from the list.

Remote: Select CIDR to specify the range of allowed security.

CIDR: Type 0.0.0.0/0
    - IP address to CIDR will be blocked to accept the request of specific range of IP address.

4. Click button. As shown below, a new rule has been added, From now on, Instance receives requests of all IP address to open SSH 22 port.

5. Click to add an ICMP rule.

6. In the ‘Add Rule’ dialog box, do the following:

 

Rule: Select ‘All ICMP’ from the list.

Direction:  Select ‘Ingress’.

Remote: Select CIDR to specify the allowed range of security.

CIDR: Type 0.0.0.0/0.

7. Click button. As shown below, a new rule has been added; From now on, the instance receives all ICMP packets.

4. Create Key Pairs

IXcloud utilizes a remote access with a key pair.

To prevent any risks for managing instance, you need at least one key pair for each project.

If not, you might have some problems when you manage instances.

1. On the 'Key Pair' tab, click button after Project > Compute > Access & Security.

2. In the ‘Create Key Pair’ dialog box, type the name of key pair and click .

3. The key pair should download automatically. If not use the link below.

         

5. Launch Instance

You can select the size, image OS, network and a key pair for security.

1. In IXcloud cloud management console, Click button after Project > Compute > Instance.

2. In the ‘Create Instance’ dialog box, do the following:

 

Details tab

Instance Name: Type an instance name.

Flavor: Choose the size of image to launch.

Price Type: Select the price type ‘On demand/Reserved’

Instance Boot Source: Select from ‘boot from volume’/ ‘boot from image’/’boot from volume snapshot’.

   

Boot from volume

 You can choose the volume on the list at the bottom.

Boot from an image (creates a new volume).

 Select the image on the ‘image name’ list at the bottom and specify the name with size to create a new volume.

 Select the check box at the bottom if you want to terminate volume when you have finished instance.

Boot from volume snapshot (creates a new volume).
 Select a snapshot on the list at the bottom.

 Select the check box at the bottom if you want to terminate a volume when you have finished instance.

  Image name: You can choose an OS image that you want to boot.

  Device size: You can choose the size of volume you want to boot (Units 50GB).

Access & security tab

Key Pair: Choose from the created key pairs for authentication

Security Groups: You can enable the security group being allocated to instance.

- Security group performs functions like a firewall, defining network traffics to an instance.

If you have not created security groups, only default security group can be assigned.

 

Networking tab

Selected network: Choose a network from the available networks

3. CIick button, then a new instance appears.

   

On the instance page you can see the name, image name, IP address, size, details, etc.

   

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