How To Add Os Templates To Ovh

Last updated twelfth October 2020

Objective

OVHcloud offers Linux, Windows Server and Windows SQL server templates (in OVF format) that y'all can deploy direct from your web client (HTML v).

Windows VMs deployed from a template automatically use the SPLA licences provided past OVHcloud. Deploying a Windows VM volition therefore automatically trigger boosted billing.

This guide will show you where yous tin can find the source files, and how to deploy them.

You can find the prices of the images offered by OVHcloud on this page.

Requirements

Web client admission (HTML5)
active Windows licences (actuate via the OVHcloud Control Console, in the Windows licence tab for the datacentre)

Instructions

Observe the URL of the OVF template

In your web browser, go to your Hosted Private Cloud homepage, and click on OVH Templates.

In the OVH Templates screen that opens, y'all will run across the details of the Linux, Windows and SQL templates bachelor.

Select the template you want. A window will open and offer yous the links that y'all will utilise to deploy the template, depending on your vSphere version.

Deploy the OVF template

Once yous have logged into your vSphere Web Client, become to the Hosts and clusters page, right-click on your datacentre and click Deploy OVF template...:

The context menu will open, and you lot can offset configuring how the template is deployed. The first step is to add together the OVH template URL:

In the next step, you can choose the datacentre:

At present y'all can choose the cluster in which the virtual machine volition be deployed:

This page lists all of the template'due south details, including its default password. For security reasons, information technology is important that you change your countersign as soon as yous log in for the start time:

Select the datastore in which the virtual motorcar will be located, and the format of the disk:

You lot now need to select the network that will be used.

The configuration process is nearly complete, and y'all will run across a summary of the configuration requested:

When you click on End, a chore is created, and you can use information technology to runway the progress of the deployment.

Once the deployment is complete, you lot can close this window.

You lot will now find the new virtual machine in your inventory.

Finalising Setup for SQL Server

Start your newly deployed virtual machine and open the console.

Nosotros recommend setting a password that meets these criteria:

Must contain at to the lowest degree viii characters.
Must incorporate at least three types of characters (uppercase, lowercase, numbers, special characters).
Not to be taken from the dictionary.
Do not include personal data (eastward.g. your offset proper noun, surname or date of birth).

In one case you take entered this information, click OK.

A window will open showing the deployment. At the end of the installation, a last window volition open, informing you that the deployment has been successful.

Click OK over again to complete the installation and restart your virtual machine.

Post-obit this reboot, y'all can start using your virtual machine.

Go further

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