# End User

Once the administrator has configured and published the templates and the SKUs for self service VMs, the end user can consume this via the end user facing **self service portal** called the Developer Hub. Please follow the steps below when you are logged in with an end user facing role (Developer, Data Scientist etc).

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## Prerequisites

VMs launched using Rafay on VMware vSphere use an SSH key pair instead of a password to authenticate a remote user. A key pair consists of a private key and public key.

- You keep the private key on your computer and provide the public key when you create an instance.
- When you connect to the instance using SSH, you provide the path to the private key in the SSH command.

> Use the [documented steps](https://docs.rafay.co/template_catalog/vm/ssh-keygen/) to generate SSH key pairs.

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A SSH key pair can be generated for each instance or reused to connect to several instances.

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## Deploy Virtual Machine (VM)

Next, we will use the **end user self service portal** (aka Developer Hub) to deploy an instance of the compute profile.

- Navigate to Developer Hub ( [https://console.rafay.dev](https://console.rafay.dev/)) and login with your end user credentials
- Click "Workspaces"
- Click "New Workspace"
- Enter a name for the workspace
- Click Save

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If you are assigned to multiple projects, please select the project where the SKU is available for you.

- Click "Compute Instances"
- Click "New Compute Instance"
- Click "Select" on the vSphere service card
- Enter a name for the instance
- Modify all of the compute details
- Enter the text of your public SSH key
- Click Deploy

After a short period of time, the instance will be deployed.

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## Utilize

Next, we will use the newly deployed VM.

- Copy the "SSH Details" from the output of the deployed compute instance.
- Use this command, with the substituted Private SSH key path in order to connect to the deployed Virtual Machine.