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• Your subscription
• Existing resource group (or click on Create new)
• Virtual machine name
• Region for the virtual machine
• Linux image supporting your (choose a supported Linux version or - if appropriate - a prepackaged Charon-SSP version (CentOS 7 in the exampleVE marketplace image)
• Size of your VM (click on Select size to see a list of available sizes)
• User name for the administrative user of the VM
• Authentication type (SSH or password). Then either paste the public key of the key-pair to use into the field provided, or enter and confirm your password.

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Click on Go to resource to get to the details page of the newly created VM. The image below shows a sample of a detail page:

Initial Access to the Instance

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$ sftp -i <path-to-your-private-key> <management-user>@<cloudhost-IP-address>

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