This guide provides a quick view of how to start using your ACE environment and how to build your first VM. For more detailed articles click the following links:

• KNOX User Guide

• ACE VPN Portal

• Adding New Users

• Installation of Open Tofu/Terraform

• Affinity Groups

• Templates and ISO's

• SHH Key Pairs

Getting Started with ACE

After connecting to the ACE VPN Navigate to https://gateway00.americancloud.com:8443/client/#/dashboard.

Enter your username, password and domain ID to log in on the ACE panel.

• Tip! These Credentials are NOT the same as your **AmericanCloud.com customer portal. These are the credentials that were shared with you in your KNOX Vault. (https://knox.americancloud.io/#/login)

Click "Login"

Creating a Virtual Machine and Isolated Network

• Tip! We recommend adding a network or VPC before building your VM.

Adding an Isolated Network

An isolated network can be deployed with different services like an HAproxy load balancer in the virtual router or source nat to communicate with other networks or a simple layer 2 network. A Network Offering in ACE defines how the isolated network is set up and which services to include with its deployment.

Offering For Isolated Networks with Source Nat Service Enabled is our default offering that creates a single virtual router with Source Nat service enabled and egress traffic blocked by default. It provides the following services [DHCP, firewall, port forwarding, Source NAT, Static NAT, User data, DNS, Load balancer and VPN]

• We also have an offering used for our Kubernetes Service which is explained in a separate article.

From the Dashboard Select "Network"

Select "Guest Networks"

Click "Add Network"

Name your Network and Add a Description if Needed

Select your Domain

Select the Zone where you will be building your Network and VM

Select "Offering for Isolated networks with Source Nat service enabled"

Click "OK"

Your Isolated Network has Been Allocated. The network can be viewed by going to Network > Guest networks

Creating a New Virtual Machine

From the ACE Dashboard panel choose Compute > Instances, click Add Instance

Select "Instances"

Select "Add Instance"

Choose the zone where you will be building your VM and have already built your Network

Choose a Template or ISO. *Templates are images containing an OS used to boot up the server, or boot from an ISO a virtual DVD/ CD that can be uploaded separately. Too see a list of all of our templates *Click Here.

Select a Compute Offering for your Instance, which determines how many CPU cores and memory is allocated to the server or Create a custom offering.

Override the Root Disk Offering if needed

Select the Network in which the server will be deployed that was created earlier in this tutorial.

You can Choose to associate an SSH key pair to the server. If you created SSH key pairs under the Account section they will show up here.

Tip! Select additional options under Advanced Mode, like boot type, add user data and/or select an Affinity Group to place the virtual machine in.

• These options are not required but can help with setting up the virtual machine in a more specific state.

Click "Launch Instance"

After the server is deployed, you will see the password show up in the panel if the password set has been configured in the chosen Template. Make sure to the save the password in a password manager of your choice.