Description: Some customers require Canaries within Huawei Cloud. Whilst we don't officially support Huawei Cloud, the following guide will have a Canary up and running in no-time.

Grabbing the VMX disks from your Canary Console

Step 1:

Log in to your Console.

Step 2:

Click the + icon and click Add Canary.

Step 3:

Click Add VMware Canary.

Step 4:

Download and extract the virtual machine disk files (vmdk's) from your Console.

Click Download and then Click VMX to begin the download.

Unzip the archive containing your Canary disks.

$ unzip VirtualCanary_d031f88e_Template_VMX.zip
Archive:  VirtualCanary_d031f88e_Template_VMX.zip
   creating: VirtualCanary-d031f88e-vmx/
  inflating: VirtualCanary-d031f88e-vmx/VirtualCanary-d031f88e-disk2.vmdk  
  inflating: VirtualCanary-d031f88e-vmx/VirtualCanary-d031f88e-disk1.vmdk  
  inflating: VirtualCanary-d031f88e-vmx/VirtualCanary-d031f88e.vmx
  inflating: VirtualCanary-d031f88e-vmx/README.txt 

Step 5:

Upload the VMDK's from above to Huawei Cloud.

Head over to the Object Storage Service.

Create a bucket and upload the VMDK's from above. Use the standard storage class.

Confirm your VMDK's are uploaded to the bucket.

Step 5:

Head over to to Image Management Service and create both a System disk image and a Data disk image from the VMDK's uploaded to the bucket.

Select Private Images and use the Image importing feature to create the System disk image and Data disk image.

Use *disk1.vmdk to create the System disk image and *disk2.vmdk to create the Data disk image (Disk1 will also notably larger than disk2).

Step 6: Create a Canary instance

Head over to Elastic Cloud Server.

Create an instance with at minimum 1vCPU and 2GiB memory. Add both the previously created system disk and data disk. 

Follow the wizard, Select "Next" and...

You're done!