1. The scenario is similar to Scenario 1, but special flavor must be specified
  2. Navigate to to Compute→Instances and press the "Launch Instance" button.
  3. You are presented with a wizard.
  4. On the first page "Details" fill out the field "Name" to give your instance a name. This name will also be put in the /etc/hostname file of the instance.
  5. If in PSNC site (eu-1), on the same page choose  BST1-Proxima  availability zone from the "  list. This is not needed in Safespring site (eu-2).
  6. On the next page "Source" pick an image you would like to use as boot media. 
  7. On the next page "Flavor", pick the flavor for the instance. Flavor depicts configuration of vCPU, RAM and storage for the instance.
    • For PSNC choose flavor fith "G1" prefix, for example: G1-NVME-8vCPU-32R-100D-1GPU. Flavor descriptions: please visit Flavors.
    • For Safespring flavor descriptions please visit  Flavors. GPU flavors has the g2A2 suffix in the name, such as b2.c4r18.g2A2.
  8. On the next page, pick a network.
  9. On the next page, assign Security Groups for you instance. In order to connect to the instance over SSH for managing it, you at least will have to create a security group with port 22 (SSH) open from the outside (Ingress). For more information on Security Groups, please see Security Groups
  10. On the next page "Keypair" assign an SSH key to you instance. See here for information on this. This is needed in order to connect to it over SSH from the outside. This key will be provisioned to the cloud users ~/.ssh/authroized_keys file.
  11. Now you can click "Launch Instance" at the bottom of the wizard.



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