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Deploy a VM

We present the steps to deploy a full VM on the TFGrid.

Make sure that you set up properly SSH keys before deploying a VM. For more information, read the previous section.

Deployment​

Deploy a new full virtual machine on the Threefold Grid

  • Make sure you have a wallet
  • From the sidebar click on Applications
  • Click on Full Virtual Machine

Process:

  • Fill in the instance name: it's used to reference the Full VM in the future.

  • Choose the image from the drop down (e.g Alpine, Ubuntu) or you can click on Other and manually specify the flist URL and the entrypoint.

  • Select a capacity package:

    • Small: {cpu: 1, memory: 2, diskSize: 25 }
    • Medium: {cpu: 2, memory: 4, diskSize: 50 }
    • Large: {cpu: 4, memory: 16, diskSize: 100}
    • Or choose a Custom plan

  • Choose the network

    • Public IPv4 flag gives the virtual machine a Public IPv4
    • Public IPv6 flag gives the virtual machine a Public IPv6
    • Planetary Network to connect the Virtual Machine to Planetary network
    • Mycelium to enable Mycelium on the virtual machine
    • Wireguard Access to add a wireguard access to the Virtual Machine

  • GPU flag to add GPU to the Virtual machine

  • Rented By Me flag to retrieve nodes currently reserved by you

  • Rentable flag to retrieve nodes that can be reserved as dedicated node

  • Certified flag to retrieve only certified nodes

  • Choose the location of the node

    • Country
    • Farm Name

  • Choose the node to deploy the Full Virtual Machine on

  • If you have more than one SSH keys set, you can click on Manage SSH keys to select which one to use for this deployment.

You can attach one or more disks to the Virtual Machine by clicking on the Disks tab and the plus + sign and specify the following parameters

  • Disk name
  • Disk size

At the bottom of the page, you can see a list of all of the virtual machines you deployed. You can click on Show details for more details:

You can also go to JSON tab for full details: