Virtual machines can be created using a free-Form wizard which allows users to pick resources they need but this can be become cumbersome if the user must pick the same option every time there is a need to provision a VM. Hence, at the end of the wizard, users can choose to create a VM or optionally save a blueprint in the App Store so next time user can just provision the VMs in a single click.

Configuring credentials store

Credentials store is a service that allows users to store Credentials in the form of username and password or SSH key-Pair in HyperCloud™ Platform. These credentials are then referenced by Blueprints or Free-Form wizard with the help with HyperCloud™ will provision the VM and setup credentials to access the VM. HyperCloud™ Platform Supports 2 types of Credentials

Key-Pair Store – Create a Key-Pair in HyperCloud™ and uploads it to the public cloud provider.
Password Store – Saves username and encrypted Password in HyperCloud™ Platform

Note: Password Store is only supported for VMware vSphere, Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure

Creating a Key-Pair Credential Store

Login to the HyperCloud™ Platform with your credentials  Click on Services Orchestration Tab  Services Click on Credential Store  Click on New & select Key-Pair Store
- Select the Cloud from the Drop-Down: AWS or Azure or GCP
- Enter a Suffix value Name: AWS-KP1
- (AWS Only) From the Resource Pool Drop-Down: Select the Available Resource pool.

Note: If more than 1 AWS Resource pool is available, then repeat this step for each Resource Pool.

- Click on Generate Keys
- To allow other users to access this credential : Click on Users and Groups
  - In the Users Text Box: Type the first alphabet of a username you would like to add & select the user
  - In the Groups Text Box: Type the first alphabet of a group name you would like to & and select the group.
- Click on Save

Creating a Password Credential Store

Login to the HyperCloud™ Platform with your credentials  Click on Services Orchestration Tab  Services
Click on Credential Store  Click on New & select Password Store
- Enter a Name: vm-user
- Enter a Username: vm-user
- Enter a Password: M!SuperS3cretpassw0rd!
- To allow other users to access this credential : Click on Users and Groups
  - In the users Text Box: Type the first alphabet of a username you would like to add & select the user
  - In the Groups Text Box: Type the first alphabet of a group name you would like to add and select the group.
- Click on Save

Provisioning Microsoft Azure VMs using Blueprints

Virtual Machine blueprints for Microsoft Azure require a Resource Group. All Virtual Machine related objects i.e. disks, ip address, etc. are placed inside this resource group.

Creating a Resource Group

Skip this step, if an existing resource group will be used.

Login to the HyperCloud™ Platform with your credentials  Click on Services Orchestration Tab  Services  Click on Resource Group  Click on New
- Select the Resource Pool for e.g. RP.ARM.EAST US.PROD-RP2
- Enter a Name for e.g. hg-prod-vms-rg
- Click Create Resource Group

Creating Blueprints for Azure VM Provisioning

Use the following steps to Create a Virtual Machine blueprint for Azure VM

Login to the HyperCloud™ Platform with your credentials  Click on Services Orchestration Tab  Services
On the Resource pool page,
- Select the Azure Resource Pool from the drop down list,

Note: Azure resource pool are identified by the prefix RP.ARM.South East Asia.<ResourcePoolName>

- Select the Resource Group: hg-prod-vms-rg  Click Next.
- (Optional) Availability Set: Select an existing or create a new Availability set. This is useful when scaling VMs in a load balancer pool
Select a Size: for e.g. Basic_A2  click Next.
Select an Image (Operating System): for e.g. CentOS 7.6  click Next.
Select the Subnet: for e.g hg-prod-vms-subnet1  Click Next.
Check Assign Public IP : for e.g Basic
Select the Security Group: for e.g hg-prod-sg1
On the Add Credentials details page,
- Uncheck Skip Agent Install

Note: Unchecking will install HyperCloud Agent, once the VM is provisioned. This is mandatory if you would like to run plugins once the Virtual machine is successfully provisioned.

- Select Credentials password or Key-Pair store  click Next
On the Entitle Owner page, Select Only Me  click Next
On the Advanced page,
- Enter a prefix: *hg-prod-vms * Click on Review
- Plugins:(Optional) Select a plugin to be run once the VM is provisioned.

Note: To select multiple plugins to run in a sequence, select one plugin and configure the order of execution for e.g. 1 under the advanced options. Click in plugins drop-down and select another plugin and configure order of execution for e.g. 2

- Lease: (Optional) : Enter a number and select either mins, hours or days.

Note: On lease expiration, the VM will get deleted automatically and user will receive an email notification

- Define a VM Start and Stop Schedule (Optional): Choose a start time and duration daily, weekly or monthly
On the Review page, review the details of the deployment
- VM Count: Update the count of the VM if required.
- Click on Save Blueprint Only which will create a blueprint and open it in the HyperCloud™ AppStore.
Enter a name for the Blueprint for e.g. OpenLogic:Centos7.6
- Entitled Users:
  - To allow all users to access this Blueprint, Click on Everyone
  - To allow specific users to access this blueprint, Click on Users & Groups
    - In the users Text Box: Type the first alphabet of a username you would like to add & select the user
    - In the Groups Text Box: Type the first alphabet of a group name you would like to add and select the group.
- Click on Save Changes
To deploy the VM from the Blueprint, click on the Blueprint and Click on Create Machine and HyperCloud™ Platform will redirect to the Service Orchestration  VMs tab.

Creating Additional Volumes using Blueprints

Use the following steps to edit an existing blueprint and add the YAML for configuring additional volumes post-provisioning of the VM.

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In the YAML Editor pane, append the YAML under vol: as shown below:

Machine:
region: westus
group: hg-ub16
image:
instanceType: Basic_A3
resourceGroup: hg-vm-rg
network: hg-vm-vnet1
subnet: hg-vm-vnet1-subnet1
securityGroup: hg-vm-nsg
skipAgentInstall: false
assignFloatingIP: true
publicIPSku: basic
password: "{{credentials

2c9180866a79b909016ba03eca9b308c }}"
count: 1
terminationProtection: DISABLED
vols:

!vol*
prefix: hg-ub16-dd1
size: 10
count: 1|
Note: Size unit is in GB, Prefix will be used to name the volume/disk.

Click on Save Changes.

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Note: By default, this volume will be mounted under /var/lib/hypercloud.

Additional volumes created and attached to the VM will be listed under Service Orchestration  Services  Storage

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Use the following steps to create a Virtual Machine blueprint for Amazon AWS

Login to the HyperCloud™ Platform with your credentials  Click on Services Orchestration Tab  Services
On the Resource pool page, Select the Amazon AWS Resource Pool from the drop down list,

Note: AWS resource pool are identified by the prefix RP.AWS.ap-southeast-1.<ResourcePoolName>

Select a Size: for e.g. t2.micro  click Next.
Select an Image (Operating System): for e.g. Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM)  click Next.
Select the Subnet: for e.g hg-prod-vms-subnet1  Click Next.
Select the Security Group: for e.g hg-prod-sg1
On the Add Credentials details page, Select Key-Pair  click Next
On the Entitle Owner page, Select Only Me  click Next
On the Advanced page,
- Enter a prefix: *hg-prod-vms * Click on Review
- Plugins:(Optional) Select a plugin to be run once the VM is provisioned.

Note: To select multiple plugins to run in a sequence, select one plugin and configure the order of execution for e.g. 1 under the advanced options. Click in plugins drop-down and select another plugin and configure order of execution for e.g. 2

- Lease: (Optional) : Enter a number and select either mins, hours or days.

Note: On lease expiration, the VM will get deleted automatically and user will receive an email notification

- Define a VM Start and Stop Schedule (Optional): Choose a start time and duration daily, weekly or monthly
On the Review page, review the details of the deployment
- VM Count: Update the count of the VM if required.
- Click on Save Blueprint Only which will create a blueprint and open it in the HyperCloud™ AppStore.
Enter a name for the Blueprint for e.g. AMI Linux 2
- Entitled Users:
  - To allow all users to access this Blueprint, Click on Everyone
  - To allow specific users to access this blueprint, Click on Users & Groups
    - In the users Text Box: Type the first alphabet of a username you would like to add & select the user
    - In the Groups Text Box: Type the first alphabet of a group name you would like to add and select the group.
- Click on Save Changes
To deploy the VM from the Blueprint, click on the Blueprint and Click on Create Machine

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Use the following steps to create a Virtual Machine blueprint for Amazon AWS

Login to the HyperCloud™ Platform with your credentials  Click on Services Orchestration Tab  Services
On the Resource pool page,
- Select the Azure Resource Pool from the drop down list,

Note: Azure resource pool are identified by the prefix RP.VMW.AZ1.<ResourcePoolName>

Select a Size: cpu=2,memory=4GB,disk=40GB  click Next.
Select an Image (Operating System): for e.g. VMT-Win2016x64  click Next.
Select the Subnet: for e.g dvs-vlan-100  Click Next.
On the Customization page, Select one of the following:
- Using Cloud Image (Recommended)

Note: This requires VMware Template to be installed and configured with cloud-init.

- Using SSH via Login Credentials

Note: This will install the HyperCloud Agent via SSH. (Linux VM only)

- Skip Agent Install

Note: HyperGrid Support can help setup Guest Customization to enable agent installation

- Click Next
On the Entitle Owner page, Select Only Me  click Next
On the Advanced page,
- Enter a prefix: *hg-prod-vms * Click on Review
- Plugins:(Optional) Select a plugin to be run once the VM is provisioned.

Note: To select multiple plugins to run in a sequence, select one plugin and configure the order of execution for e.g. 1 under the advanced options. Click in plugins drop-down and select another plugin and configure order of execution for e.g. 2

- Lease: (Optional) : Enter a number and select either mins, hours or days.

Note: On lease expiration, the VM will get deleted automatically and user will receive an email notification

- Define a VM Start and Stop Schedule (Optional): Choose a start time and duration daily, weekly or monthly
On the Review page, review the details of the deployment
- VM Count: Update the count of the VM if required.
- Click on Save Blueprint Only which will create a blueprint and open it in the HyperCloud™ AppStore.
Enter a name for the Blueprint for e.g. Win2k16
- Entitled Users:
  - To allow all users to access this Blueprint, Click on Everyone
  - To allow specific users to access this blueprint, Click on Users & Groups
    - In the users Text Box: Type the first alphabet of a username you would like to add & select the user
    - In the Groups Text Box: Type the first alphabet of a group name you would like to add and select the group.
- Click on Save Changes
To deploy the VM from the Blueprint, click on the Blueprint and Click on Create Machine

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Configuring credentials store

Creating a Key-Pair Credential Store

Creating a Password Credential Store

Provisioning Microsoft Azure VMs using Blueprints

Creating a Resource Group

Creating Blueprints for Azure VM Provisioning

Creating Additional Volumes using Blueprints

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Old Version 6

New Version 7

Key

Configuring credentials store

Creating a Key-Pair Credential Store

Creating a Password Credential Store

Provisioning Microsoft Azure VMs using Blueprints

Creating a Resource Group

Creating Blueprints for Azure VM Provisioning

Creating Additional Volumes using Blueprints