Step4. Create an Instance for SBC Server

Create an instance for SBC server from the Google public image Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

  1. Go to the VM instance page.
  2. Select your project and click Continue.
  3. Select an Image for the instance.
    1. Click Image on the left-side navigation, type ubuntu-1604-xenial to search the image.
    2. Click Show deprecated images to show all the relevant images.
    3. Select the image ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20180306.
    4. Click CREATE INSTANCE.
  4. On the instance configuration page, set the instance for your SBC server.
    1. Specify a Name for the SBC instance.
    2. Select the Zone to the same zone as your VPC network.
    3. Select a Machine type for the SBC instance.
      Refer to the SBC system requirements to decide which machine type to choose.
    4. Set the Firewall.
      1. Click Management, disk, networking, SSH key > Networking.
      2. Edit Network interfaces, set Network as your VPC network.
      3. Set External IP to the static external IP address that is created in Step3. Create an External IP Address.
      4. Set IP forwarding to On.
      5. Click Done.
  5. Click Create to create and start the instance.