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• Go to Project → Cluster Infra → KASI Cluster Templates menu (Step A), and click Lauch Cluster Stack button of KASI-SingleVM template (Step B). Choose Next to go to Lauch Cluster menu.

• (Step C) Put a Stack Name and the Password for user. Select an OS Image (e.g., ubuntu-20.04-cloudimg), Flavor (e.g., C2M2D20 = 2 CPUs, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB OS storage), Network (kasi-user-network, default), SSH Keys.

• Put a Temporary one-time password for root account

  (Note: this

  , and click Launch button.

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  The intial password may be

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  exposed to other users

  , and must be changed at first-time console log-in), and click Launch button

  . It MUST be changed to a secure one when you log in to the console for the first time.

  
  

4. Configure the VM instance for remote desktop & external datastore

• Go to Project → Compute → Instances menu (Step A), and check your VM instance is in Running Power State (Step A). From the Actions pull-down menu, choose Console.

• Click on the black console screen, and log in with root username and temporary password (Step B).

• First, change the root password and update the OS. Create a user account. Install desktop environment & remote desktop server.

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  ### Change root password $ passwd ### Update OS $ apt update && apt -y dist-upgrade ### Create a user account (recommended) : adduser {username} $ adduser kasi-user ### Grant sudo privilege to the user : usermod -aG sudo {username} $ usermod -aG sudo kasi-user ### Install dekstop environment (minimal installation is recommended) $ apt install xfce4 --no-install-recommends ### Install remote desktop server (RDP) $ apt install xrdp ### Reboot $ reboot

  
  

• After reboot, log in to the console with the user account, and configure SMB client to mount user's external datastore (Step C).

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  ### Install required pacakges : cifs-utils, smbclient $ sudo apt -y install cifs-utils smbclient ### Create a mount directory $ mkdir NAS ### Mount external datastore : mount.cifs -o rw,uid={local user},username={NAS user} {NAS address} {mount directory} $ sudo mount.cifs -o rw,uid=kasi-user,username=kasi-user //210.219.33.249/home NAS ### For more mount options : man mount.cifs ### Check if external datastore is mounted and the user has write permission $ df -H ; ls -l ### DO NOT forget to log out $ exit

  
  

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  NEVER leave the console screen logged in. Other users CAN access your console.

  
  

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