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Overview of the service

The Horizon control panel is used to view and manage Openstack services. Available and used HTC Cloud resources can be viewed by selecting Compute→Overview.


Compute→Instances displays a list and serves to manage virtual servers.

Compute→Images displays available images.

Compute→Key pairs display and creation of keys.



Create SSH keys

The keys are used to connect to the server without using a password.

Generate private and public key using putty-gen (Windows) or ssh-keygen (Linux).



In the control panel, select Compute → Key Pairs.


Add key - Import Public Key


Enter the name of the key, type of key (SSH Key) and add the public key Public Key that you created earlier



Select Import Public Key.



Starting a new virtual server

Select Compute  Instances


To start a new virtual server, select Lunch Instances



Enter the name, description and number of the servers


Select image and disk size


Select server resources (resource description). When selecting a resource, the disk size from the previous steps is overwritten with the selected one, so go back to Source and adjust the disk size again if you want.


Select a network (description of networks)


Select the server access key you created in the previous step.


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