How to connect to a virtual machine via SSH from Windows 10 (Command Prompt) on ESA HPC

Requirements

• The private and public keys were created and saved on local disk of the computer (How to create key pair in OpenStack Dashboard on ESA HPC).

• During the virtual machine creation procedure, the generated key was attached (How to create new Linux VM in OpenStack Dashboard Horizon on ESA HPC)

• Floating IP were assigned to VM (How to Add or Remove Floating IP’s to your VM on ESA HPC).

• Check in “Installed features” if OpenSSH client is installed, if not click Add a feature search for OpenSSH client and install it.

Step 1 Run the Command prompt and change folder to the folder, where your keys files are.

For example:

Step 2 In case of name of your ssh key is id_rsa and the floating IP is 64.225.129.203 type:

if username changed to eouser@test, the connection was successfully established.