Question 1

VM Creation

Accepted Answer

Adding a Virtual Machine on Xen or VMware Hypervisor

Select Xen/VMware hypervisor Virtual Machine.

Click on Add Rapid Machine and Select Zone & Network.

Zone: You can create Virtual Machines in any of the three data centers situated in Karachi and Lahore.

KHI03
KHI04
LHR01

Network: All Virtual Machines will be added to the default network-tier. You can also add a tier to the VPC. There is another procedure for VPC creation

Select the Operating System.

Windows
Linux

Select a Template as per your requirement from the options available.
Select a Service Offering from the dropdown menu.
Name the Machine and assign it to a group. You can create a new Group or choose an existing Group. To add a Virtual Machine to an existing group, the same naming conventions must be followed
Review the summary of the Rapid Machine being created and click on Submit to proceed.
A pop-up will appear to show that your Job has been queued.
Refresh the Portal and the VM would have been deployed
VM password can be viewed directly from the portal in Credentials section of "Message Center" on top right corner. Expand green plus icon to see password.

|| NOTE: After a few minutes you will also receive notification on registered email informing

Question 2

IP Address Addition

Accepted Answer

How to Add an IP Address

To allow access of Cloud VM's from your on-premises devices, you must acquire an IP address by following the steps below:

Select the IP Address tab and then click on Add IP Address.

Select Zone and click on Next.
Review the summary of the plan and click on Submit.
You will receive a confirmation email after an IP has been acquired.
Once the IP address has been added, you can perform various functions.

|| NOTE: When you acquire an IP Address, at first it will be “unassigned”, therefore, you will have to enable port forwarding as to allow traffic through that network. Or you could enable Static NAT directly after an IP has been acquired. You can also add Port Forwarding Rules on a Source NAT IP.

${color}[#ff8000](How to Enable Port Forwarding on the Acquired IP:)

To enable port forwarding, click on Port Forwarding option on acquired IP and provide the following details:

Assign the public & private port range for the ports which can publicly & privately access the rapid machine.
Provide the Protocol, Network and the Instance name respectively.
Click on Add and the job will be queued.

|| NOTE: You can also delete the Port Forwarding

Question 3

Change Password

Accepted Answer

All VM passwords can be viewed directly from the portal. Please note, upon new VM creation all credentials will only be available on the portal. Only vm creation notification email will be sent on your registered email address without password details. This is in line with the new Information Security policies under our recent GDPR framework compliance.

Reset/recover VM password:

Search the VM whose password reset is required.
To reset your password, the machine must be stopped.
Scroll to right of stopped VM and press the key icon and an automatically random password will be generated and displayed in Credentials section of "Message Center" on top right corner.
Click on green plus icon to see the password

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