This page allows you to create a new virtual system running on Google's
GCE service. Unlike the other virtual system types supported by Cloudmin,
it is not created on a host system owned by you or from one of the locally
stored images - instead, it is created from an image provided by Google or
yourself.
The fields on this form that need to be filled in to create a GCE instance
are :
- Internet hostname
- The hostname that will be used by this instance, like mymachine.
- System description
- A short human-readable description for this new virtual system, like
Webserver on GCE.
- SSH key for root
- New GCE instances are always only accessible via an SSH key, rather than
with a password.
- Allow creation of Virtualmin domains?
- This setting determines if the newly create system can have Virtualmin
domains added to it. Typically you will want to leave this set to
Yes.
- Update Virtualmin packages?
- When this is set to Yes (as it is by default) and you are creating
a system from an AMI that includes Virtualmin Pro, all packages used by
Virtualmin will be updated to the latest available versions after creation
is complete.
- GCE project
- If you have multiple GCE projects registered with Cloudmin, you must select
the one that will own this new instance from this menu.
- GCE system image
- This menu lists all of the GCE images that you have created, and public
Linux images provided by Google.
- GCE instance size
- The size of an instance determines how much RAM, CPU and local disk it
has available. Larger instances cost more per hour to run.
When the Create button is clicked, Cloudmin will call the GCE API to
start
the creation process. Depending on the size of the image, this can take between
1 and 5 minutes. The hostname of the newly created system will be just the IP
assigned by Google, but can be changed later once you have added an entry for the same IP address to your own DNS domain.