Validate Hosted Cloud Deployments

This short guide explains how to access a Hosted OpenNebula Cloud Deployment via the web UI and instantiate and access a Virtual Machine.

After successfully verifying the infrastructure deployed by the automations, to run a Virtual Machine access the OpenNebula web UI at:

http://<Front-end public IP>:2616/fireedge/sunstone

To log in, use the default username oneadmin, and the password specified in the one_pass variable of the inventory file.

The image below shows the Alpine Linux 3.20 Virtual Machine included in the OpenNebula installation:

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To instantiate the VM, in the Sunstone UI’s left-hand menu go to Instances –> VMs. Click the Create icon highlighted below, then select the Virtual Machine image.

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Follow the steps of the VM instantiation wizard. Ensure to attach a NIC and choose the public bridge, as shown below. All other values can be left empty or at their defaults.

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Add a PASSWORD field and specify the desired root password for the VM, then click Accept, as shown below.

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Log in to the VM via VNC (click the screen icon on the right). Log in as user root with the password that you specified in the previous step.

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To test connectivity, from the deployed VM, ping a public IP address, e.g. 8.8.8.8, as shown below.

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Finally, as a cleanup step, terminate the VM by clicking the red “Trash can” icon, then verify that the VM transitions to state DONE, as shown below.

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