Creating a VM Instance from an Image

This section describes how to create a VM instance from a DSG image.

Ensure that the DSG image is downloaded from the My.Protegrity portal to your GCP account.

To create a VM instance from an image:

1. Login to the GCP console.

2. Under the Compute section, click Compute Engine > VM instances.

3. On the VM instances screen, click CREATE INSTANCE.

   The Create an instance screen appears.

4. On the Create an instance screen, select the configurations as per your requirements. Some of the configurations on this screen must be set as provided in the sub steps so that the DSG can be installed successfully.

   1. Under Machine Configuration, click the Serial and the Machine type drop down list and select the required configuration.

      It is recommended that an instance with minimum 4 Core CPU and 16 GB RAM configuration is selected. The instance type listed is the minimum hardware configuration.

      The hardware configuration required might vary based on the actual usage or amount of data and logs expected.

   2. Under Boot disk, click Change.

      1. Click the Custom images tab, and click the DSG image, dsg-pap-all-64-x86-64-gcp-3-3-0-0-x, in the image drop down list.
      2. Select the required boot disk type and set the value for the Size(GB) option as 64 and then click Select.

   3. Under Firewall, ensure that the Allow HTTP traffic and Allow HTTPS traffic check boxes are selected.

   4. Click the Networking tab and add two NICs.

      For ensuring network security, the DSG isolates the management interface from the service interface by allocating each with a separate network address. Ensure that two NICs are added to the DSG.

5. Click Create to create the VM instance.

   After the instance is created, a notification stating that the VM instance has been created appears in the Notifications tab.

6. On the VM instances screen, search or enter the name of the VM instance.

7. Click the VM that you created.

   The VM instance details screen appears.

   Ensure that you validate the details, such as, Machine Type, Boot disk, Firewall, and the Network Interfaces on the VM instance details screen.