Creating a Windows Server 2019 Demo Network

1. Navigate to https://gateway00.americancloud.com:8443/client

2. Login to your ACE environment using the credentials from the Knox Vault.

Build Network

1. First, create an Isolated network to build your VM's on.

1. Click "Add network"

1. Provide the required information:

Name: Provide a name based on your required naming convention

Description: Helps to distinguish between networks

Zone: This should be the zone you're wanting to build the VM's in.

Domain: Since building an isolated network be sure to select the domain.

Account: Once the domain is selected an additional box will display labeled account. Select the appropriate account for the network.

Network Domain: Leave Blank

Network Offering: Select [[Offering for Isolated networks with Source Nat service enabled]].

External ID: Leave Blank

1. The remainder of the boxes can be left blank unless building the network for a VPC. Select 'OK'.

1. Click "Win-Demo-Net" or the network built.

1. Click "Public IP addresses"

1. To begin we'll be missing an IP for our network. Following the first build ACE will assign an IP to the machine and enable that IP as the source NAT.

On this page additional IP's can be acquired and managed for sequential machines.

Build the Instance

1. Click [[cloud/instance]] icon from the left navigation bar and select [[instances]].

1. Select [[Add Instance +]] toggle.

1. Select the zone the VM should reside in. The zone should mirror the zone of the network to build on.

Alert: Currently Zone 0 offers a standard and premium node while Zone 1 only offers standard.

1. Click the "Search" field.

1. Type "wind [[enter]]" This will narrow down the selection of offerings presented.

2. Click "Community"

1. Click [[AC-OS-Windows-Server-2019-Standar-2024-07-01]] is the newest template of windows. Select it by the radio button to the left.

1. If selecting an offering for zone0, you'll see two different options. An [[ACE-1C32-1R64-P]] and [[ACE-1C32-1R64-S]] where P= premium and S= standard. Zone 1 as stated above will only have the standard cluster.

Select the appropriate offering. The ones listed above are custom offerings, allowing you to provision the vm more to your needs. We also have several default offerings.

Once you've selected the CUSTOM service offering select the CPU cores from 1-32 and RAM from 1000-64000. This can all be scaled at a later date if necessary.

1. Once CPU/RAM have been selected. You'll want to decide upon the size of the root disk. While looking at the VM build in the right-hand pane. You can identify the default disk offering of 50 GB. If your project requires more of a root disk. Select [[Override root disk offering]] toggle. In the disk offerings section select [[CustomLocal]]. Then scale the root disk to the appropriate size.

If additional data disk are required select the size in section 4. Data Disk.

1. Select the network for the VM. For the initial build we select the network we built in the first steps.

Under default network we can leave the IP Address and MAC Address blank as they'll be issued via Cloudstack.

1. The additional blocks are informational and optional. Fill them in as necessary and select [[Launch Instance]].

1. The machine will launch and move to a starting status.

1. Once the machine goes to a running state, the password will be presented. Be sure to copy and securely store this password for SSH purposes if you haven't built a ssh key. You can close the popup once copied.

Tip: Congrats you've built your Windows machine.

Access Machine

1. Click "VM-12c7eb61-e7ea-4b26-80f2-8ca4d77b5bb2"

1. Click this icon.

1. Initial a new password for the Administrator is required. Select 'OK'.

1. Once the password has been excepted and changed successfully. Select 'OK'

1. You'll be logged in and directed to the Server Manager for windows 2019 datacenter.

Tip: Additional to the ACE console is remote access. Remote access is a more desirable connection.

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