Quick Start

In this quick start guide, you will create and access your first instance (sometimes referred to as a virtual machine or VM) on your dedicated Hypervisor.

Before Instance Creation

Before you create an instance, ensure that Exoscale Support has provisioned your dedicated resources and provided you with the relevant Deploy Target. Without this you will not be able to launch instances on your dedicated Hypervisor.

For Linux or BSD based instances follow the tutorial on SSH Key Pair Setup first before you start this guide so instances are configured with a key for access.

Confirm deployment target

Run the following command with valid credentials for the target account, be sure to use the correct zone [the CLI command exo zone will return you a list of these] should you have multiple dedicated clusters:

exo api list-deploy-targets  --zone=ch-gva-2 

Run the following command to view the current allocation of your cluster, replacing the DeployTarget with the ID returned in the previous command. Ensure you select the correct Zone.

exo api get-deploy-target DeployTarget --zone=ch-gva-2

Create Your Instance

With the above information you will be able to launch your instance :

exo compute instance create INSTANCENAME –deploy-target TARGETID

[You will want to add any other configuration as you would for any other instance.]

Confirm launched instance placement

Run the following command to check the instance had landed on your dedicated hypervisor.

exo api get-deploy-target DeployTarget --zone=ch-gva-2