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1. Getting More Information and Help 1
1.1. Additional Documentation Available ............................................................................... 1
1.2. Citrix Knowledge Center ............................................................................................... 1
1.3. Contacting Support ....................................................................................................... 1
2. Concepts 3
2.1. What Is CloudPlatform? ................................................................................................ 3
2.2. What Can CloudPlatform Do? ....................................................................................... 3
2.3. Deployment Architecture Overview ................................................................................ 4
2.3.1. Management Server Overview ........................................................................... 5
2.3.2. Cloud Infrastructure Overview ............................................................................ 5
2.3.3. Networking Overview ......................................................................................... 6
3. Cloud Infrastructure Concepts 9
3.1. About Regions ............................................................................................................. 9
3.2. About Zones ................................................................................................................ 9
3.3. About Pods ................................................................................................................ 11
3.4. About Clusters ........................................................................................................... 12
3.5. About Hosts ............................................................................................................... 13
3.6. About Primary Storage ............................................................................................... 13
3.7. About Secondary Storage ........................................................................................... 14
3.8. About Physical Networks ............................................................................................ 14
3.8.1. Basic Zone Network Traffic Types .................................................................... 15
3.8.2. Basic Zone Guest IP Addresses ....................................................................... 16
3.8.3. Advanced Zone Network Traffic Types .............................................................. 16
3.8.4. Advanced Zone Guest IP Addresses ................................................................ 16
3.8.5. Advanced Zone Public IP Addresses ................................................................ 17
3.8.6. System Reserved IP Addresses ....................................................................... 17
4. Accounts 19
4.1. Accounts, Users, and Domains ................................................................................... 19
4.1.1. Dedicating Resources to Accounts and Domains ........... ............. .............. ......... 20
4.2. Using an LDAP Server for User Authentication ............................................................ 21
4.2.1. Configuring an LDAP Server ............................................................................ 21
4.2.2. Example LDAP Configuration Commands ......................................................... 23
4.2.3. Search Base ................................................................................................... 23
4.2.4. Query Filter ..................................................................................................... 24
4.2.5. Search User Bind DN ...................................................................................... 25
4.2.6. SSL Keystore Path and Password .................................................................... 25
5. User Services Overview 27
5.1. Service Offerings, Disk Offerings, Network Offerings, and Templates ... ............. ............. 27
6. User Interface 29
6.1. Supported Browsers ................................................................................................... 29
6.2. Log In to the UI ......................................................................................................... 29
6.2.1. End User's UI Overview ................................................................................... 29
6.2.2. Root Administrator's UI Overview ..................................................................... 30
6.2.3. Logging In as the Root Administrator ................................................................ 30
6.2.4. Changing the Root Password ........................................................................... 31
6.3. Using SSH Keys for Authentication ............................................................................. 31
6.3.1. Creating an Instance from a Template that Supports SSH Keys ............... ........... 31
6.3.2. Creating the SSH Keypair ................................................................................ 32
6.3.3. Creating an Instance ........................................................................................ 33
6.3.4. Logging In Using the SSH Keypair ................................................................... 33
6.3.5. Resetting SSH Keys ........................................................................................ 33