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Adding a virtual machine to an Edge Gateway device

Use Edge Services portal to add virtual machines to your Edge Gateway device. You can add virtual machines for Virtual Network Functions including routers, firewalls, IT payloads, and Session Border Controllers. You can only have an acceptable combination of virtual machine types. Edge Services portal rejects any invalid combinations.

To add a virtual machine to an Edge Gateway device:

  1. Click Infrastructure, then click Compute.
Edge Service Manager compute list view
  1. In the Hosts section, select the Edge Gateway device.
  1. Click Manage EGW, then click Manage VM.
  1. Click +ADD VM.
  1. In the Add Virtual Machine window, select the virtual machine type for Select VM Type and select the image to use for the virtual machine for Select Image for the virtual machine. Your selection determines what fields populate the window.
  1. Complete the fields for the virtual machine.
  1. To add cloud-init paramters, click ADD CLOUD INIT. To learn more about cloud-init parameters, click the icon. In the Cloud Init section, complete the following fields:
Field Description
Rank X
Select MIME Type X
File Name Type a unique name for the cloud init file.
User Data Source

Select one of the following for the user data:

  • URL—
  • Test—
User Config X
  1. After you complete the fields for the virtual machine, click ADD.
  1. If you want to add the virtual machine now, click EXECUTE NOW.
  1. If you want to add the virtual machine at a later time and date, select the time and date, then click EXECUTE LATER.