 Hi, my name is Marcin Gil. I'm working for CloudFerror and today I will show you how to create a Windows Server virtual machine and access it from Linux desktop. First of all, I need to log in to CRODS site. Now, when I am logged in, I can access my virtual resources in OpenStack Dashboard. I can access it from my account and your cloud environment. So I click on your cloud environment. I have a choice to log in using my OpenID Connect credentials, so the same as logging to CRODS. Or I can use Keystone credentials. Then I have to enter my domain number and username and password. So I will use my OpenID Connect and by clicking Connect, using SSO, I will be moved directly to OpenStack Dashboard. In overview, I can see my limits. So for instance, this user can create 10 instances, up to 20 use, up to 20 vCPUs and other resources are shown here. And I can choose in which project I will be creating the resources. At this moment, the project which is chosen is called Test Project. However, when I open the menu, I can see that there are some other projects as well. If you log in for the first time, you will see the first two projects. So a cloud number of your domain, project with or and a cloud number of your domain projects without or. But you can later create your own projects as well. Some other projects with your with your names. And having this, you have to create also network resources. So create routers. If you want to create your own project, please check on our page on Claudia's site, the tutorial how to do it. So now, if I want to create instance Windows instance, I will go to instances pane. At this moment, there are no instances. So I click on launch instance, give a new instance a name, I will call it test. And I can click either next or next pane, choose source. Now I can choose how this instance will be created. It can be a boot from either image or instance snapshots, volume or volume snapshot. So I will choose image. And I can choose from the images here. So I will use Windows 2019. After clicking on the arrow up arrow, the choice will be shown here. And I can also choose whether to create new volume or not. By default, it is chosen the option no. If I want to have the disk that is bigger than the flavor, which I will choose in a moment, I can choose yes. And then choose the size of the system disk. So in our case, I will choose no. Next step is to choose the flavor. There are various flavors. And those which are signed with yellow triangle are either too small or unavailable for this image. So as you can see, the smallest virtual resource for Windows Server image is EO1 large with 4 vCPUs and 8 GB of RAM and 32 GB system disk. So let's choose this flavor. After choosing the flavor, the next step is to go to networks. In networks, I have the choice of private networks. In this project, I have two external networks, external 2 and external 3. If you register now in Gradius, you will have access to external 3 because external 2 and external 1 have already expired number of floating IPs. So in my case, I will also choose external 3. And if I want to have access to EO data, that is to satellite products gathered on our resources in our repository, then I will also choose the EO data. Having this, I can go to next pane. In the pane network ports, I don't need to input anything. So I go to security groups. And by default, there is one security group called default. But if I want to access the virtual machine from the outside world, from internet, I need to add a security group which allows me to access the virtual machine. In case of Windows, I will use RDP. So I can either choose this security group, allow ping SSH RDP, or create my own group. And if you want to create your own security group, please also visit our site to see the relevant tutorial. So now I will choose the allow ping SSH RDP. And that's all. Other panes are not necessary to configure. In case of Windows, you don't have to create and use keepers. Keepers would be necessary to use in Linux machines if you want to SSH to Linux machine. But in case of Windows, we will be using RDP and keeper is not necessary. So now I click on launch instance. And we will wait for the instance to be created. Now the instance has been created. It's already running. It doesn't have floating IP associated yet. But first in case of Windows, I need to go to console on the dashboard to set up the password. So I choose from the menu on the right, I choose the console. I can see that now the console shows that the Windows is being installed on the machine. This console is very limited. You cannot copy and paste from your desktop. So you need to put all the data from the keyboard and you can use mouse and keyboard only. So it is good for some additional operations. But normally we use other ways of accessing the virtual machine, either RDP or SSH in case of Linux machines. So now we are waiting for the startup of Windows. At the bottom you can see the information about the ports which should be open in your network environment of your desktop. So please be aware that if some ports are blocked by your firewalls, this console will not be visible. Okay, so I can see that now the instance, the Windows has already been installed. And we need to set up the password. As you can see when I move my mouse the cursor in the console is behaving a little bit different. So it can be difficult to operate. This is an intrinsic characteristic of this spice console. Unfortunately, we cannot do anything with this. So the best way is to go to one of the corners slowly and then you can have more control on the arrow in the console. So now I go to OK. As you can see I can click and then I can put the password. The password has to be inserted twice. And after that I click on the arrow. The password has been set up and now I click on OK. Okay, so now the Windows has been nearly ready. We will now go to instances because working in the console here is not very easy. So it is better to go to use other way of communication with your server. In our case we will use the application in Ubuntu called Remina. So to do that first we need to attach floating IP to the instance. So I go to instances. Now I open the menu here and click on associate floating IP. There are no floating IPs allocated to my project. So I click on plus. Choose one of the private networks. In our case we will use external free network. So I click on external free and click on allocate IP. The IP has been allocated and now I have to add it to the one of the ports and beware do not try to add it to your data port. You should rather use the other ports connected to the private network. So I choose the private network external free and click on associate. Okay, so now as you can see the floating IP has been added to the virtual machine and I can access it using RDP protocol from other application. In my case it will be Remina. Remina is open source software that you can use in Linux desktops. So now I configure the access to the server. So I give it a name. It can be any name but I use the same test. I choose the protocol RDP remote desktop protocol and I put the address of the server and the username will be administrator and the user password is this one that I inserted a moment ago and having this I click on save and connect. I accept the certificate and now I'm already logged in using Remina to my desktop and it's much easier to use this access way. I can now click on toggle full screen so that it will be on my whole screen. Now I can choose any of this like no it's okay and now I can configure some more parameters of the Windows server. I will close this dashboard and as you can see I can first of all it's I advise you to change the password because most probably the password that you entered during the first setup is not long enough to prevent from attacking from hackers and especially Windows is vulnerable for attacks so it's best way to choose the stronger password now. So now I will click on the start with my right button of my mouse and choose computer management. Now I choose on local users and groups and click on users and right click again on administrator and set password. Click on proceed and now I can choose some stronger password. I can now copy and paste from because this Remina allows me to copy and paste from my desktop so it's not it's much easier to copy a strong password from your password manager which is advised and click okay the password has been set okay now I can leave I can disconnect from my server and change the password which I set at first in Remina so I can edit once again my connection and copy this stronger password to use a password save and connect as you can see now I connect it again with my stronger password and now I will show you how to see the your data by default the your data is not mounted on the server so if I click on file explorer and this pc I can see that I can access the disk c and if I want to access your data I need to use the script which is shown here on the desktop as mount your data so I click twice I close this and open again and if this happens as this happened now that I cannot see your data in spite of my clicking on this command so now I can do some work around which we will fix soon which we should fix soon so I click on run cmd and copy another command and this command should clear the situation so close once again and click command ARdata I didn't help so once again okay so now it is it is ready and as you can see this is as another network resource it's access to your data is used with NFS protocol so when I click on this it takes a moment okay so now as you can see I can access satellite data which is which is ready on our repository so for instance if I go to Sentinel 2 I can see the catalogs of various products from various years so this is so here you can do some processing on directly from the from your virtual machine so in case of going deeper into the catalogs it takes sometimes longer time because these are very huge repositories and they are growing day by day so you can access needed data and but it takes some time however it's much quicker if you comparing to downloading the data from the internet if you would like to okay so that's all for today thank you very much