WIN03S, WIN0364S, WIN03E, WIN0364E, WIN03DC, WIN03D64DC, WIN03W: Generic Windows Servers

	At a Glance
	Catalog	system_ms
	Category	Generic
	User volumes	no
	Min. memory	See table below
	OS	Windows
	Constraints	no
	Questions/Comments:	Ask Forum

Functional Overview

WIN03S, WIN0364S, WIN03E, WIN0364E, WIN03DC, WIN0364DC, and WIN03W are general server appliances. They can be branched to make new server appliances: singletons or server classes.

Each includes a reasonably complete installation of its OS, including the GCC compiler if available. This allows installing and building software on the branched appliances.

The generic server appliances are designed to be used in two ways:

• As a customized server, by branching the base class to form singleton and modifying its class volume appropriately
• As a template for building other server appliances, by using it as a base to create new application-specific or global catalog classes.

Here 'server' means virtual server. Virtual servers are similar to appliances in all aspects except intent (virtual servers are made to be logged into for the installation of additional software) and volume size (much bigger than appliance's volumes).

Boundary

Resources

32-bit appliances

64-bit appliances

Terminals

One use of the net output is to connect it to the Subnet Output Gateway in order to download software to be installed on the server. Once you are finished installing, you can disconnect the gateway (or make it standby).

If you branch one of the server appliances in order to create your custom appliances, you may want to remove the unnecessary interfaces.

Properties

(none)

Volumes

Servers have only a boot volume (instantiable class volume). There are no placeholder volumes (although when you branch this class to create a customized server, you can add a placeholder volume).

Notes

Please see the Windows Appliance Notes for significant details on the operation of Windows appliances under AppLogic.

The appliance hostname (set to appliance instance name) cannot be longer than 15 characters. Setting the appliance instance name to more than 15 characters will result in a hostname truncated to the 15th character.

Note that the Windows Server appliances (WIN03X) by default use a random Administrator password for security purposes. If this is not desired, change the password as described in the Windows Appliance Notes.

Note that the Windows Server appliances generate a new random password whenever the appliance class name changes. If you wish to disable this behavior, open a Cygwin bash shell on the running appliance and edit the script /appliance/appliance.sh and insert a line exit 0 after the initial comment block.

3rd party open source software used inside of the appliance

WIN03X uses the following 3rd party/open source packages from Cygwin in addition to any 3rd party/open source packages which may be installed with Windows itself.

To see the full list of open source packages used in this appliance, please see its implementation design.

Related documents

• Test Plan
• Implementation Design

Questions and Comments

To post a question or comment on this appliance, visit our forum.

-- StephenQ - 25 Jan 2010