info_tfgrid_manual/tosort/weblets/weblets_fullVm.md

Full Virtual Machine

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Process
• New Released Features
• Differences Between Full and Micro VMs
• Manually Mounting Additional Disks
  • Check All Disks Attached to the VM
  • Additional Disks
  • Create the Mount Directory
  • New File System
  • Mount Drive

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Introduction

Deploy a new full virtual machine on the Threefold Grid

• Make sure you have an activated profile
• Click on the Full Virtual Machine tab

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Process

• Fill in the instance name it's used to reference the VM in the future.
• Public IPv4 flag gives the full VM a Public IPv4
• Public IPv6 flag gives the full VM a Public IPv6
• Planetary Network to connect the full VM to Planetary network
• Choose the node to deploy on which can be
• Manual where you specify the node id yourself
• Automatic Suggests nodes list based on search criteria e.g country, farm, capacity..

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New Released Features

Currently the playground is the easiest way to deploy a VM.

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

• Disk name
• Disk size
• Mount point

• Network Name: It's used for Wireguard's private network.
• Network IP Range: It's a private subnet for Wireguard's network. You could use the auto-generated one or replace it with a private subnet.

In the bottom of the page you can see a list of all of the virual machines you deployed. you can click on Show details for more details

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Differences Between Full and Micro VMs

• 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

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Manually Mounting Additional Disks

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

Check All Disks Attached to the VM

fdisk -l

Additional Disks

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

df -h

Create the Mount Directory

To create the mount directory, write the following like:

sudo mkdir /hdd6T

New File System

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdb

Mount Drive

sudo mount /dev/vdb /hdd6T/