How to create cloud instance in Enterprise Cloud Stack Server ?

Enterprise Cloud Stack Server Hosting provides easy options to build your cloud instances instantly. In order to create cloud instance, you can go follow the below procedures.

1. Create a volume
2. Launch an instance
3. Allocate Public IP address

How to create a volume
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1. Login to your EnterpriseCloudStack Panel [https://yourservername.com/dashboard]

Note: If you have not installed SSL for your hostname, then you can access the URL in mozilla browser

2. Under Projects >> Click on Volumes.

3. Click on “Create Volume” button on the right side of the panel.

4. Provide the following details

Volume Name – You can specify the domain name for which volume needs to be used
Description – Short notes about the volume
Volume Source – Choose Image as volume source
Use image as a source – Choose the required operating system image or application image
Type – iscsi
Size – You can mention the required volume(diskspace) size of the cloud
Availability Zone – nova

5. Finally click on create volume

Volume creation will take some time to upload the image. So you can allow it to get completed till the status comes as Available.

How to Launch an instance
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1.Expand the Compute tab.
2.Click on “Launch Instance” button on the right side of the panel..
3. Provide the following details

Details tab

Instance Name – Your hostname(domainname) for the cloud
Description – Short notes about the cloud
Availability Zone – nova
Count – 1

Click on Next

Source tab

Select Boot Source – Choose boot source as Volume
Under Available section you can see the volume which you have created.Click on UP Arrow button on the right side of the panel.

Click on Next

Flavour tab

Choose the required Flavour [ number of vCPUS and RAM ] by clicking the UP Arrow in the right corner. It will make your flavour selected into Allocated section.

Click on Next

Networks tab – Choose the PrivateNetwork from available section to allocated section

Click on Next

Network Ports tab – You no need to choose anything. Default options can be present

Click on Next

Security Groups tab

Security group acts as firewall to your cloud which will determine which ports to be allowed. Choose cpanel security group from available section to allocated section

Click on Next

Key Pair tab

Key Pair is used to authenticate the SSH for the first time. After you login to ssh using key pair, you can set the password for cloud server.Choose the available keypair to allocated section

Click on Next

The remaining options of Configuration, Server Groups, Scheduler Hints, Metadata can be left as it is with default option.

Finally click on launch instance. Once the cloud creation is completed, you can see the status as Active.

How to Allocate Public IP address
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Expand your Networks tab
Click on Floating IPs
Click on Associate button on the right side of the panel.
Choose the IP address and the ports(your cloud instance)
Click on Associate

Now you can access the cloud using the IP address which you have allocated