NREC – End User Documentation

Norwegian Research and Education Cloud

Contents:

• Introduction
  • About
  • Who can use NREC?
  • What can you do with NREC?
  • Concepts
  • Conventions
• Project application
  • Demo projects
  • Standard projects
• Logging in
  • First time login
  • Subsequent logins
• The dashboard
  • Overview
  • Choosing Region
  • Project tab
  • Identity tab
• Create a Linux virtual machine
  • SSH key pair
  • Create a virtual machine
  • Allowing SSH and ICMP access
  • Accessing the virtual machine
  • Doing the same with CLI
• Create a Windows virtual machine
  • Caveats and Limitations
  • Setting up a keypair
  • Create a virtual machine
  • Allowing RDP access
  • Retrive Admin password
  • Set Admin Password
  • Launch Remote Desktop
  • Creating a snapshot image
• Using SSH
  • Creating a key pair
  • Connecting to the instance
  • Connecting through a proxy
  • Transferring data
  • Deleting key pairs
  • Caveats and limitations
• Working with Security Groups
  • What is a Security Group?
  • Script snippets to create common security groups
  • The “default” Security Group
  • Understanding CIDR notations
  • Creating a Security Group
  • Adding Rules
  • Deleting Rules
  • Deleting a Security Group
  • Apply or Remove Security Groups
• Create and manage volumes
  • Create
  • Snapshot
  • Attach
  • Partition, format and mount
  • Detach
  • Re-type
  • Delete
  • Doing the same with CLI
• NREC GOLD images
  • Current GOLD images
  • Retired GOLD images
  • UiO Managed
  • Automatic updates
• Upload and manage images
  • Upload an image
  • Doing the same with CLI
  • Useful image properties
• Create and manage snapshots
  • Create
  • Download
  • Upload
  • Launch
  • Delete
• Instance console
  • Accessing the console
  • Console limitations
  • Example remote protocols
• Object Storage
  • Access
  • Usage
  • Public Access (S3)
  • Object Locking (S3)

Advanced topics:

• The NREC DNS service
• OpenStack API and CLI (command line interface)
• (DISCONTINUED) High-Performance Computing (HPC)
• shared High-Performance Computing (sHPC)
• (BETA) Virtual GPU Accelerated instance (vGPU)
• Terraform and NREC: Part I - Basics
• Terraform and NREC: Part II - Additional resources
• Terraform and NREC: Part III - Dynamics
• Terraform and NREC: Part IV - Pairing with Ansible
• Terraform and NREC: Part V - DNS Management
• Terraform and NREC: Part VI - Handling the state files
• Usecase: CS Course with individual Windows instances for students

Other:

• NREC Terms of Service
• Project Lifecycle
• Security Group Sanity Check
• Support
• Pricing
• ACL for Incoming Traffic
• Networking considerations
• Known Issues
• Troubleshoot
• Speculative Execution Attacks
• Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
• Use case toturials
• Changelog

Indices and tables

• Index

• Search Page