START A VIRTUAL MACHINE IN GOOGLE CLOUD ENGINE

0. Prerequisite

• You have obtained and activated your Google Coupon for this training as described in Appendix 1
• You have accessed to the Google dashboard and tested Starting and Stopping a virtual machine (VM) instance as described in Appendix 1

1. Spin off a virtual Machine bare-galaxy with Google Cloud Engine

Before starting, we recommend you to pay extra attention any time you see the signal.

• Connect to your Google Compute Instances dashboard

• Create a Virtual Machine Instance

with the following settings

• Name: bare-galaxy
• Region europe-west6 (Zurich) Check your Region in the popup table bellow
• Zone: europe-west6-a (or -b or -c) Check your Zone in the popup table bellow
• Configuration de la machine
  • USAGE général
  • Série: E2
  • Type de machine: PRÉDEFINI Standard e2-standard-8
• Disque de démarrage (Modifier)
  • IMAGES PUBLIQUES
  • Système d'exploitation: Ubuntu
  • Version*: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Type de disque de démarrage: Disque persistant avec équilibrage
  • Taille (Go): 200
  • SELECTIONNER
• Pare-feu
  • Check Autoriser le trafic HTTP

Region and Zone assignments to students

As it is possible that a single Google zone will be able to provide enough resources to support 18 virtual machines at the same time, we will distribute our instances to different zones in Europe.

The following table assigns the instances by name to different Regions and Zones.

Please respect this attribution for your final instance, the one you will use during your practical work.

Email prefix	Region	Zone
alix.martin	europe-west1 (Belgique)	europe-west1-b
astrid.canal	europe-west1 (Belgique)	europe-west1-d
camille.jarry	europe-west1 (Belgique)	europe-west1-c
Christine.lin.1	europe-west2 (Londres)	europe-west2-c
claudia.martins	europe-west2 (Londres)	europe-west2-b
coraline.bernachot	europe-west2 (Londres)	europe-west2-a
julie.birgel	europe-west3 (Francfort)	europe-west3-c
lasselin	europe-west3 (Francfort)	europe-west3-a
laurine.bourel77	europe-west3 (Francfort)	europe-west3-b
leila.qebibo	europe-west6 (Zurich)	europe-west6-a
marie.massier	europe-west6 (Zurich)	europe-west6-b
sabine.vautier	europe-west6 (Zurich)	europe-west6-c
Salim.Aiche	europe-west9 (Paris)	europe-west9-a
yelene.etter	europe-west9 (Paris)	europe-west9-b
zoe.guilbert	europe-west9 (Paris)	europe-west9-c

These settings should look like:

When

• you have double-checked all indicated settings
• you are sure that your instance will start in the zone assigned to you

Then you can start you instance by clicking the button

Trouble shouting

In some occasions, launching of your VM may fail as illustrated bellow:

1. Maybe you are not, indeed, using the billing account associated to your Google coupon, but instead using a billing account associated to a "Free Trial".

   • If it is not already done, activate your coupon by following the received instructions, and be sure that you activate a project associated with the billing account of the coupon.

2. The Region and Zone which you have chosen (in the example, europe-west6-a) is overloaded.

   • In this case, try another Zone (-b or -c), and/or another Region, in Europe or America.

2. Connect to the VM using the ssh web console

Roll down the ssh menu in the control pannel and select the first option

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This opens a web ssh shell session to control your VM:

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