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# Manage Instances

<div className="head">Create Instance</div>

<div className="text"><ol><li>Log in to the dashboard.</li><li>Select the appropriate project from the drop down menu at the top left</li></ol></div>


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<div className="text">3. . Navigate to  <span className="blue">Project</span>  > <span className="blue">Compute</span> > <span className="blue">Instances</span>  and click <span className="blue">Launch Instance</span> </div><br/>

<div className="text">4. Specify following details in <span className="blue">Details tab</span>  and click <span className="blue">Next.</span></div><br/>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Instance Name</td>
      <td>Assign a name to the virtual machine</td>
      </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Count</td>
      <td>Number of virtual machines to launch with identical specs. Default is 1.</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table><br/>


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<div className="text">Specify following details in <span className="blue">Source</span> tab and click <span className="blue">Next</span></div><br/>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Boot Source</td>
      <td>Available options are image, volume and snapshots. Default is image.</td>
      </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Volume Size </td>
      <td>Size of root volume</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Image Name </td>
      <td>This field changes based on your Boost Source selection. If you have chosen to
launch an instance using an image, the Image Name field displays. Select the
image name from the dropdown list.</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table><br/>

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<div clssName="text">6. Specify the size of the instance to launch in <span className="blue">Flavor</span> tab and click <span className="blue"> Next.</span></div><br/>

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<div className="text">7. Select <span className="blue"> Network</span> and click <span className="blue"> Next</span> </div><br/>

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<div className="text">8. Select <span className="blue">Security Group(s)</span> and click <span className="blue">Next.</span> </div> <br/>

<img src={in06} alt="Instance" /><br/><br/>


<div className="text">9. Select  <span className="blue">Key Pair</span> and click <span className="blue">Launch Instance</span></div><br/>



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<div className="text">10. Instance will take few minutes to configure depending on size of the image being used</div><br/>



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<div className="head">Connect to Instance</div>
<div className="text"><ol><li>Navigate to  <span className="blue">Project</span> > <span className="blue">Compute</span> > <span className="blue">Instances</span> </li><li>Open on the instance dropdown and click on  <span className="blue">Associate Floating IP</span> </li></ol></div><br/>

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<div className="text">3. If there are no Floating IP Addresses are reserved before, we will get 'No floating IP addresses
allocated' in  <span className="blue">IP Address</span> dropdown.</div><br/>



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<div className="text">4. In case there are no FIP Addresses reserved, click on <span className="blue"> + </span> sign and in <span className="text">Allocate Floating IP</span> dialog box click <span className="blue"> Allocate IP.</span></div><br/>

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<div className="text">5. Now we will be redirected back to <span className="blue"> Manage Floating IP Association </span> dialog box. Select public IP from IP Address dropdown and server private network port in <span className="blue"> Port to be associated </span> dropdown and click
<span className="blue">on Associate</span></div><br/>



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<div className="text">6. Instance now have public IP associated.</div><br/>

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<div className="text">. Instance can be access through public IP if the communication is allowed in security group.</div><br/>

<img src={in14} alt="Instance" /><br/><br/>







