GCP Marketplace¶

Deployment¶

Go to the GCP Console and log into you account	https://console.cloud.google.com/
In the Google Cloud Platform Console, select the project to use.
Click Marketplace
In the Search for solutions bar, type pixstor and select the pixstor product
Review the documentation then when ready, click the GET STARTED button
Select the Terms and agreements then select AGREE
Select the DEPLOY button
Fill in the New pixstor deployment form Deployment Name The name given to the deployment. Also becomes the systems hostname Zone The zone to deploy into Machine type Choose the machine type to use. The default is an n2-highcpu-32 Disks Boot disk type The type of disk to use for the boot disk Data disk type The type of disk to use for the data disks Networking Choose the network to use Firewall By default we need ports 22, 443, 8008, 19150 445 and 2049 open for access You can specify a Source IP range if required, if not, it’ll allow access from all source IPs Specify if you need IP forwarding enabled or not. Select Deploy to start the build process

Now the pixstor has been deployed, it needs to build all the services.

From the deployment screen select the autogen item to show the output page.

From the outputs page you can watch the build process from the Build status URL

The build process takes between 10 and 15 minutes.

Once the build process has finished, the Management URL interface will be available.

Once the stack has finished building, you can access the system with the below credentials

Credentials

To allow access, your GCP firewall will need to be edited to allow the following Inbound access