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Steps To Install Windows Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine is a software implementation of a physical machine that allows multiple virtual machines with their own operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical machine. Amazon EC2 allows users to create and run virtual machines in the cloud by launching instances of operating systems like Windows Server. The process involves selecting an AMI, instance type, security groups, storage, and key pair before launching the instance. Once launched, the user can retrieve the administrator password by decrypting it with their private key file and use it to connect to the virtual machine via RDP.

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Steps To Install Windows Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine is a software implementation of a physical machine that allows multiple virtual machines with their own operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical machine. Amazon EC2 allows users to create and run virtual machines in the cloud by launching instances of operating systems like Windows Server. The process involves selecting an AMI, instance type, security groups, storage, and key pair before launching the instance. Once launched, the user can retrieve the administrator password by decrypting it with their private key file and use it to connect to the virtual machine via RDP.

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Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine is a completely separate individual operating system installation


on your usual operating system. It is implemented by software emulation and
hardware virtualization.

Virtual machine is a software implementation of a physical machine - computer -


that works and executes analogically to it. Virtual machines are divided in two
categories based on their use and correspondence to real machine: system virtual
machines and process virtual machines. First category provides a complete
system platform that executes complete operating system, second one will run a
single program.

Frequently multiple virtual machines with their own OS's are used in server
consolidation, where different services are run in separate virtual environments,
but on the same physical machine.

Launch a Windows Virtual Machine with Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 is the Amazon Web Service you use to create and run virtual
machines in the cloud (we call these virtual machines 'instances').

WORKING AND INSTALLATION FEATURES

Steps to install Windows Virtual Machine:

 Log in to AWS and Enter the EC2 Dashboard. When you click here, the AWS
management console will open in a new browser tab. Find EC2 under
compute and click to open the Amazon EC2 Console.
 Create and Configure Your Virtual Machine
 Now in the Amazon EC2 console. Click Launch Instance
 Find Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Base and click Select.
 Choose an instance type. Instance types comprise of varying combinations
of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity so choose the
appropriate applications. Select the default option of t2.micro - this
instance type is covered within the free tier. Then click Review and Launch
at the bottom of the page.
 Review the options that are selected for the instance which include AMI
Details, Instance Type, Security Groups, Instance Details, Storage, and Tags.
Leave these at the defaults and click Launch from the bottom of the page.
 Create a Key Pair and Launch Instance

 To connect to virtual machine need a key pair. A key pair is used to log into
your instance (just like your house key is used to enter your home).
 In the popover, select create a new key pair and name it MyFirstKey. Then
click Download Key Pair. MyFirstKey.pem will be downloaded to computer.
 After downloaded and saved key pair, click Launch Instance to start
Windows Server instance.
 On the next screen, click View Instances to view the instance which is just
created and see its status.
 Connect to Your Instance
 After launching your instance, it's time to retrieve the administrator
password and connect to it using a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client.
 AWS documentation includes information on how to install a RDP client if
you need one.
 Select the Windows Server instance you just created and click Connect
 In order to connect to Windows virtual machine instance, it will need a user
name and password:
The User name defaults to Administrator
To receive password, click Get Password

 In order to retrieve the password, it will need to locate the Key Pair which
had created. Click Choose File and browse to the directory it stored
MyFirstKey.pem. The Key Pair will surface in the text box. Click Decrypt
Password.
 Now decrypted password for Windows Server instance. Make sure to save
this information in a secure location. The Windows Server admin login is
credentials.
 Click Download Remote Desktop File and open the file.
 When prompted log in to the instance, use the User Name and Password
generated in to connect to virtual machine.
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF VIRTUAL MACHINE

ADVANTAGES

Multiple OS environments can exist simultaneously on the same machine,


isolated from each other;

Virtual machine can offer an instruction set architecture that differs from real
computer.

Easy maintenance, application provisioning, availability and convenient recovery.

DISADVANTAGES

When multiple virtual machines are simultaneously running on a host computer,


each virtual machine may introduce an unstable performance, which depends on
the workload on the system by other running virtual machines;

Virtual machine is not that efficient as a real one when accessing the hardware.

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