Quick Start Guide for Intel® FPGA Development Tools on the Microsoft* Azure* Platform

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1. Quick Start Guide for Intel® FPGA Development Tools on the Microsoft* Azure* Platform 2. Document Revision History for Quick Start Guide for Intel® FPGA Development Tools on the Azure* Cloud
1. Quick Start Guide for Intel® FPGA Development Tools on the Microsoft* Azure* Platform x
1.1. Creating an Azure* Account 1.2. Licensing Intel® FPGA Software for the Azure* Cloud 1.3. Licensing IP Cores 1.4. Managing Intel® FPGA Software on the Azure* Cloud 1.5. Persistent Storage and Data Transference 1.6. Hosting a License Server in the Microsoft* Azure* Cloud 1.7. Connecting to the License Server 1.8. Example: Running Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Space Explorer II 1.9. Example: Running the ''Hello World'' Program Using the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™
1.4. Managing Intel® FPGA Software on the Azure* Cloud x
1.4.1. Signing In the Azure* Web Portal 1.4.2. Selecting Intel® FPGA Tool from the Azure* Marketplace 1.4.3. Specifying the Virtual Machine Characteristics 1.4.4. Launching the Virtual Machine 1.4.5. Connecting to the Azure* Virtual Machine Using SSH 1.4.6. Obtaining a GUI Desktop on the Running Azure* Virtual Machine 1.4.7. Opening the Intel® Quartus® Prime Software 1.4.8. Terminating the Virtual Machine
1.4.3. Specifying the Virtual Machine Characteristics x
1.4.3.1. Basic Settings 1.4.3.2. Machine Size and Instance Type 1.4.3.3. Network Settings
1.4.5. Connecting to the Azure* Virtual Machine Using SSH x
1.4.5.1. Connecting from a Windows* Computer 1.4.5.2. Connecting from a Linux Computer
1.6. Hosting a License Server in the Microsoft* Azure* Cloud x
1.6.1. Create a License Server Machine in the Azure* Cloud 1.6.2. Upload the Flexlm License Server to the Server Machine 1.6.3. Configure and Start the License Server 1.6.4. Manage the License Server
1.7. Connecting to the License Server x
1.7.1. Preserving the MAC Address
1.8. Example: Running Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Space Explorer II x
1.8.1. Starting Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Space Explorer II 1.8.2. Setting Up an Intel® Quartus® Prime Project
1. Quick Start Guide for Intel® FPGA Development Tools on the Microsoft* Azure* Platform
2. Document Revision History for Quick Start Guide for Intel® FPGA Development Tools on the Azure* Cloud

1.5. Persistent Storage and Data Transference

An Azure* machine has two types of storage: Local storage and managed disk.

Local storage is available on /mnt/resources, and is physically attached to the machine. When you stop the machine, the data in /mnt/resource is removed.

Managed disk is available in /dev/sda, and contains two partitions: /opt is mounted on the /dev/sda2 partition, and contains the installation of Intel® FPGA software.

The root directory / is mounted on /dev/sda1 and has 30GB of storage. You cannot expand /dev/sda1.

  • To add more disk space to the OS disk, you can update the size of the disk, create a new partition, and mount the partition on a directory under / such as /mydata.
  • To share storage among multiple virtual machines, or with machines on premise, use one of the following methods:
    Table 4.  Storage and File Sharing Methods for Azure* Virtual Machines
    File Sharing Method More Information
    Secure Copy Protocol Linux scp For information about using the Secure Copy Protocol with Azure* machines, refer to the Microsoft* Azure* Documentation.
    Windows WinSCP
    Windows (PuTTy) pscp
    Azure* File Share For information about Azure* File Share, refer to the Microsoft* Azure* Documentation.
    Network File System NFS Allows you to share a directory for all your machines.

    For information about NFS, refer to Configure shared storage and move database files in the Microsoft* SQL Documentation.

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