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Windows Installations

AppLogic provides tools that assist in creating your Windows appliances. In addition, you can use appliances with similar functionality, generic appliances, or appliances provided by your service provider.

The Windows Server appliance is the base appliance used to create all other Windows-based appliances. The Windows Server appliance should be created first before any other Windows appliance, except the Windows 2008 Filer.

The following lists a few types of appliances:

• Windows Server - generic Windows server appliance, similar to LINUX6.
• Windows VDS - virtual dedicated server
• Windows VDI - virtual desktop instance
• Windows Filer - filer that performs file-system level operations over ntfs volumes
• Windows IIS Web Server - internet information server appliance
• Windows SQL Server - SQL Server appliance
• WISA/WISAx4 - template applications which use a IIS/SQL/ASP.NET stack

In addition, for the following, refer to the System_ms Catalog section of the Appliance Catalog Reference Guide:

• Scalable Windows IIS Web Server IIS08yx4 and IIS08yx8 - contact your service provider to install this catalog on your grid.

  IIS08yx4 and IIS08yx8 includes references to /system_ms:IIS08y.

  If the system_ms catalog is installed on your grid and any /system_ms:IIS08y appliances are missing, the Infrastructure Editor displays an error message each time an application is opened. To resolve this issue, either create all the /system_ms:IIS08y appliances or remove the unused IIS08x4 or IIS08yx8 appliances from the system_ms catalog.

For additional information on appliances, refer to the Appliance Catalog Reference Guide.

If you are using appliances provided by your service provider, refer to their documentation.

Note: To install Windows, verify the ISO images for the OS installation.

This section contains the following topics:

Windows OS