Accessing your virtual machines can have various procedures depending on what you have selected as your external network. Read the correct guide in the section with the same name as your external network.
ntnu-global
If you have global IPv4 addresses on your virtual machine you should be able to communicate with the virtual machine globally. That means that you should be able to contact the virtual machine over SSH (if it is linux) or Remote desktop (if it is windows) from the whole world, as long as the security-groups your machine is a part of are configured correctly.
It is smart to limit who is able to connect to your machines over these protocols, as the internet is regularly scanned to discover hosts communicating with SSH or RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol).
ntnu-internal
Addresses in this network are available troughout NTNU, but not in the rest of the world. That means that if your client are on a NTNU network you can contact it directly similar as if the virtual machine is in the ntnu-global network.
If you want access to your machines from home you would need to connect to the NTNU VPN service first.
How to log in
For more detailed info about how to login to a Linux or Windows VM, read here.
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Whatever you do, do NOT rely on using the web console as your primary access. The web console is not meant to be a stable work surface, as it has very limited functionality. It is at best just meant to be a "window", so you can see what's going on during boot etc |
Currently there are some differences in how to access the virtual machines based on which openstack installation you are working on.
stack.it.ntnu.no
Currently the openstack installation in trondheim (stack.it.ntnu.no) uses addresses which is routed troughout the NTNU campus. To contact a virtual machine in this cloud you would simply just create a floating IP, assign it to the VM, allow traffic trough the security group and then connect to the machine. In the case you are off-campus you can VPN (sslvpn.ntnu.no) to the campus first.
skyhigh.hig.no
The openstack installation at Gjøvik (SkyHiGh) is currently addressed using private IP addresses which is not available troughout the campus. There are a couple of alternatives on how to connect to the virtual machines in this cloud:
Get assigned a global IP
SkyHiGh has a few global addresses. If your project is of such a kind that global addresses is required it is possible to NAT in a global address to an internal floating IP. Then this floating IP can be assigned to a virtual machine; and this virtual machine is then accessible trough the assigned global IP from NTNU campus. Be aware that NTNU IT enforces some firewalling entering that subnet; so services hosted there needs to be coordinated with them to be campuswide available.
Trough a jumphost
All floating IP's within skyhigh is accessible to all machines in the cloud (if permitted by the access groups). All users with an active project in skyhigh is able to log in to "skyhigh.hig.no", and trough that machine it is possible access all other machines. This machine also allows ssh-tunnels to tunnel other traffic trough SSH (f.ex RDP, HTTP(S) and similar).
PPTP VPN
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