info_tfgrid/collections/dashboard/solutions/fullvm.md

Full Virtual Machine

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Deployment
• Difference Between Full VM and Micro VM
• Manually Mounting Additional Disk
  • Check All Disks Attached to the VM
  • Create a Mount Directory
  • New file system
  • Mount drive

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Introduction

We present the steps to deploy a full VM on the TFGrid.

Deployment

Deploy a new full virtual machine on the Threefold Grid

• Make sure you have a wallet
• From the sidebar click on Applications
• Click on Full Virtual Machine

Process:

• Fill in the instance name: it's used to reference the Full VM in the future.

• Choose the image from the drop down (e.g Alpine, Ubuntu) or you can click on Other and manually specify the flist URL and the entrypoint.

• Select a capacity package:

  • Small: {cpu: 1, memory: 2, diskSize: 25 }
  • Medium: {cpu: 2, memory: 4, diskSize: 50 }
  • Large: {cpu: 4, memory: 16, diskSize: 100}
  • Or choose a Custom plan

• Choose the network

  • Public IPv4 flag gives the virtual machine a Public IPv4
  • Public IPv6 flag gives the virtual machine a Public IPv6
  • Planetary Network to connect the Virtual Machine to Planetary network
  • Mycelium to enable Mycelium on the virtual machine
  • Wireguard Access to add a wireguard access to the Virtual Machine

• GPU flag to add GPU to the Virtual machine

  • To deploy a Full VM with GPU, you first need to rent a dedicated node

• Dedicated flag to retrieve only dedicated nodes

• Certified flag to retrieve only certified nodes

• Choose the location of the node

  • Country
  • Farm Name

• Choose the node to deploy the Full Virtual Machine on

• If you have more than one SSH keys set, you can click on Manage SSH keys to select which one to use for this deployment.

You can attach one or more disks to the Virtual Machine by clicking on the Disks tab and the plus + sign and specify the following parameters

• Disk name
• Disk size

At the bottom of the page, you can see a list of all of the virtual machines you deployed. You can click on Show details for more details:

You can also go to JSON tab for full details:

Difference Between Full VM and Micro VM

• Full VM contains a default disk attached to it which is not the case in the Micro VM where you needed to make sure to attach a disk to it or the VM will fail
• The default disk is mounted on / so if you want to attach any additional disks, you have to choose a different mounting point
• Only cloud init flists can be deployed on Full VM. You can check official Threefold flists here
• In Full VM, you need to mount the additional disks manually after the VM is deployed

Manually Mounting Additional Disk

• You can follow the following commands to add your disk manually:

Check All Disks Attached to the VM

fdisk -l

The additional disk won't be mounted and you won't find it listed

df -h

Create a Mount Directory

sudo mkdir /hdd6T

New file system

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdb

Mount drive

sudo mount /dev/vdb /hdd6T/