Creating a CERN OpenStack VM

First, navigate to CERN OpenStack. After signing in using your CERN credentials, you should see the page below after selecting "Instances" in the left-hand nav menu under "Compute". Then, click "Launch Instance"

Now we will begin to configure your VM. First, you need to give it a name

Now, you will need to specify the OS you would like it to run. For AutoDQM, we use CC7

After that, you need to specify the quantity of disk space you would like to reserve for it (go big or go home!)

Finally, you have to generate a key-pair for it

With that, you are ready to launch your instance

After it has finished setting up (it will take a bit), ssh into lxplus. From there, you can ssh into your brand-new virtual machine!

ssh [name].cern.ch