VDC Customer Guide

Introduction

VHI is Virtuozzo's implementation of OpenStack that greatly simplifies installation and management of OpenStack.
Due to the simplicity of management combined with the features and ecosystem of OpenStack is was been selected to replace VMware at Voyager.

The Aim of this guide is to provide information to Voyagers customers to enable them to use the Virtuozzo Tenant portal.

The following content will be covered in this guide:

• Accessing the tenant portal.

• Creating a project.

• Creating a user account for the project.

• Configuring a network.

• Creating firewall rules / security groups.

• Provisioning a virtual machine, including adding a floating IP.

Accessing Virtuozzo Tenant Portal

1. To access the tenant portal, head to the following links:

   • https://vcloud-akld.isx.nz/login/tenant

   • https://vcloud-chch.isx.nz/login/tenant

2. Login with the credentials provided by our MSD team.

Configuring a Network

The following will show Voyager customers how to configure a Network in Voyagers Cloud Data Centre.

1. Once Logged in to the tenant portal click on Compute on the left-hand side of the page.

2. Click on Networks in the Compute menu.

3. Click on Create Network.

   

4. In the create virtual network menu, name the network. You can decide if you would like to manage IP addresses by selecting the slider. After selecting and naming click next.

5.  If IP address management is selected, click on button to add subnet details.

6. Add IP address details in the CIDR column and Add default gate way. Note even though it says Default gate way is optional we still recommend entering those details.

7.  Add your allocation pools and DNS servers and click next.

8. Confirm all the details you have entered are correct and click create virtual network to complete the creation of your network.

Creating Firewall Rules / Security Groups

The firewall in use for VDC is a stateless firewall.

The default rules that get applied to a VM are "Allow all" as shown below.

We recommend creating your own security groups. You can create multiple security groups covering different allow/deny rules.

Follow the below to create a security group.

1. login to the client portal.

2. Click on Compute on the left-hand side of the page.

3. Click on Security groups.

4. Click on Create Security group.

   

5. Name your Security group and click add.

   

6. Click on your new Security group that has been added to the list to begin editing.

   

7. For either inbound or outbound you can either remove rules by clicking the trash can or click add to add rules.

   

8. Once you have clicked on add for either inbound or outbound, select required parameters and then click the tick to add the rule. 

   

9. Once you have clicked add it should now show in the list of rules.

   

From here you can either decide to add more required rules to your current security group or create different groups for certain rules.

Provisioning A Virtual Machine Including Adding Floating IP’s to VM’s

Provisioning Virtual Machines

1. To create a Virtual Machine in the tenant portal you first need to login.

2. Once Logged in click on compute -> virtual machines -> create virtual machine.

   

3. Name the VM and set the following parameters:

   1.  

      • Image: Select the ISO that you wish to mount to install the OS.

      • Volumes: The VM disk and ISO that will be attached to the VM. Edit the "Boot" volume and select the size for the VM, ensure to tick "Delete on termination" which means when a VM is deleted the disk will also be removed.

        

      • Flavors: Select the flavor that matches the amount of CPU cores and RAM, so for example if you require 4CPUs and 6GB of RAM select the
        c4.m6 flavor.

      • Network interfaces: Add a network and use the "Private" interface that you added, this will be the internal IP addressing one. Leave all the other options as the defaults.

      • Advanced Options: Enable these options, enable CPU and RAM hot plug. UEFI Boot (For OS that you wish to have UEFI).

4. Once you have set the parameters click deploy.

   

5. Ensure "Enable CPU and RAM hot plug" is ticked.

6. Once all parameters are selected press deploy.

7. The New VM should now be deployed and showing in Compute -> Virtual machines.

   

Adding Floating IP addresses to Virtual Machines.

To add a floating IP address to your new VM follow the following instructions

1. Click on Compute -> Floating IP’s.

2. Click Add floating IP.

   

3. In the Add floating IP address menu you will add:

• Network: Select the Floating IP interface.

• VM or load balancer: Select the VM that you just created.

• IP address: Select the Internal IP that will bind to the external floating IP.

  

4. Once adding the floating IP address, the Compute -> Floating IP’s page will show you what your external IP address will be along with the Internal IP address.