Adding Dedicated Hosts

Control placement of EC2 instances on a physical server with a Dedicated Host

Adding Dedicated Hosts to launch EC2 instances

Use Dedicated Hosts to launch Amazon EC2 instances and provide additional visibility and control over how EC2 instances are placed on a physical server; enabling you to use the same physical server, if needed.

Prerequisites

Configure the DuploCloud Portal to allow for the creation of Dedicated Hosts.

1. In the DuploCloud Portal, navigate to Administrator -> System Settings.

2. Click the System Config tab.

3. Click Add. The Add Config pane displays.

4. In the Config Type field, select Flags.

5. In the Key field, select Allow Dedicated Host Sharing.

6. In the Value field, select true.

7. Click Submit. The configuration is displayed in the System Config tab.

Add Config pane configured to Allow Dedicated Host Sharing

Creating Dedicated Hosts to launch EC2 instances

1. In the DuploCloud Portal, navigate to Cloud Services -> Hosts.

2. In the EC2 tab, click Add. The Add Host page displays.

3. After completing the required fields to configure your Host, select Advanced Options. The advanced options display.

4. In the Dedicated Host ID field, enter the ID of the Dedicated Host. The ID is used to launch a specific instance on a Dedicated Host. See the screenshot below for an example.

5. Click Add. The Dedicated Host is displayed in the EC2 tab.

EC2 page with Advanced Options displayed including Dedciated Host ID

Viewing Dedicated Hosts to launch EC2 instances

After you create Dedicated Hosts, view them by doing the following:

1. In the DuploCloud Portal, navigate to Cloud Services -> Hosts.

2. In the EC2 tab, select the Host from the Name column. The Dedicated Host ID card on the Host page displays the ID of the Dedicated Host.

Dedicated Host ID card on the Host page displaying ID of the Dedicated Host