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Click Compute Engine and VM Instances.
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Step 2 |
Click CREATE INSTANCE.
Select a boot disk to create a new CSR 1000v VM instance (from "OS Images" or custom images) and enter values for the following
fields.
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Step 3 |
Specify the name for your VM ins the Name field. You can
Name for your VM, using only lowercase letters. Example: "newtestvm".
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Step 4 |
Specify the Region.
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Step 5 |
Specify the Zone. The zone is often a data center with a region.
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Select the Machine type. Select one of the following options from the drop-down list: n1-standard-2, n1-standard-4, n1-standard-8. The machine type is associated with an image filename. For example, the 2vCPUs machine type for the Cisco CSR 1000v has
an image filename of "n1-standard-2".
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Step 7 |
(Optional) Click Customize to select the number of cores(vCPUs), memory size, and GPUs.
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Step 8 |
In the Boot disk section, click Change.
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Step 9 |
Select a Cisco CSR 1000v image. See the Marketplace to select the CSR 1000v image.
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In the Boot Disk window, for the Boot disk type, select SSD persistent disk.
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Step 11 |
Click Select.
In the Create an Instance window, the name of the previously selected image appears in the Boot disk section.
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In the Identity and API Access section, do not change the value of the Service account.
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Step 12 |
Select Allow default access.
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Step 13 |
In the Firewall section, select either: Allow HTTP traffic or Allow HTTPS traffic.
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Step 14 |
Click Management, disks, networking, SSH keys.
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Step 15 |
Click Networking.
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Step 16 |
Click Add interface.
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Step 17 |
In the Networking Interfaces dialog box, select the default interface. For example, the default security group is 10.142.0.0.0/20.
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Step 18 |
In the Networking Interface window, select the first default interface.
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Step 19 |
Set IP Forwarding to On. This setting prevents the traffic from being blocked.
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Step 20 |
Set Primary internal IP to Ephemeral (automatic). This private IP address is obtained automatically from the selected subnet.
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Step 21 |
Set External IP to Ephemeral (automatic).
Specify Ephemeral (automatic). Later, you can use this public IP address when you start an SSH session from a terminal server.
You may also choose to specify this External IP address as static. The external IP address of each interface is either ephemeral
or static.
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Step 22 |
Click Done.
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(Optional) Click Add network interface to add a second interface.
This step is optional. If you do not want to add a second interface, go to step 31 "SSH Keys".
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Step 24 |
Enter Name to specify the name of the second interface.
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Step 25 |
Select a Network.
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Step 26 |
Select a Subnetwork.
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For the primary internal IP, select Ephemeral (automatic). The private IP address is obtained automatically from the selected subnet.
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For the external IP, select None.
For the second interface, you can select None. You do not need a public IP address on this interface as you previously set an external IP address on the first interface.
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Step 29 |
Click Done.
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Step 30 |
In the SSH Keys section, paste the SSH key from the public key that you created earlier in the Create an SSH Key section.
The SSH key is an instance-wide SSH key. The settings are applicable only to this VM instance, and not to the whole project.
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Step 31 |
Click Create.
The newly created Cisco CSR 1000v VM instance boots up, and may take 5 to 10 minutes. To check whether the VM instance is
up, click the Cisco CSR 1000v name and under Logs, click Serial Port. If you see, for example, "Adding eth0 entry", it indicates that the instance is still booting up.
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