WIN08: Generic Windows Servers

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WIN08: Generic Windows Servers

WIN08


At a Glance
Catalog	system_ms
Category	Generic
User volumes	no
Min. memory	See Resources
OS	Windows
Constraints	no
Questions/Comments	WIN08x

Functional Overview

WIN08 for the various supported versions is a general server appliance that can be branched to make new server appliances: singletons or server classes.

Each version 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.

Important! 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).

The WIN08 appliances are not currently distributed with CA AppLogic. For additional information on creating appliances, refer to the Appliance Developer Guide.

The WIN08 versions are as follows:

OS	Class Name	Install Size
Windows Server 2008 DataCenter Edition without Hyper-V SP2 32-bit	WIN08DC	12 GB
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition without Hyper-V SP2 32-bit	WIN08E	12 GB
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition without Hyper-V SP2 32-bit	WIN08S	12 GB
Windows Server 2008 Web Edition SP2 32-bit	WIN08W	12 GB
Windows Server 2008 DataCenter Edition R2 64-bit	WIN0864DC	12 GB
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition R2 64-bit	WIN0864E	12 GB
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition R2 64-bit	WIN0864S	12 GB
Windows Server 2008 Web Edition R2 64-bit	WIN0864W	12 GB

Resources

Class Name	CPU min	CPU max	CPU default	Mem min	Mem max	Mem default	BW min	BW max	BW default
WIN08DC	0.25	32	1	512M	64G	2G	1M	2GB	1M
WIN08E	0.25	8	1	512M	64G	2G	1M	2GB	1M
WIN08S	0.25	4	1	512M	4G	2G	1M	2GB	1M
WIN08W	0.25	4	1	512M	4G	2G	1M	2GB	1M
WIN0864DC	0.25	32	1	768M	64G	2G	1M	2GB	1M
WIN0864E	0.25	8	1	768M	64G	2G	1M	2GB	1M
WIN0864S	0.25	4	1	768M	32G	2G	1M	2GB	1M
WIN0864W	0.25	4	1	768M	32G	2G	1M	2GB	1M

Terminals

Name	Direction	Protocol	Description
in	in	Any	Generic input
out	out	Any	Generic output for a single host
net	out	Any	Generic output for subnet access
mon	out	CCE	Sends performance and resource usage statistics.

Note:

One use of the net output is to connect it to the Subnet Output Gateway 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 to create your custom appliances, you may want to remove the unnecessary interfaces.

Volumes

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

Notes

For the details on the operation of Windows appliances, refer to the Appliance Developer Guide.

Note:

The appliance hostname (set to appliance instance name) cannot be longer than 15 characters. If set to more than 15 characters, the hostname truncates to the 15th character.
By default, Windows appliances use a random Administrator password for security purposes. If needed, you can change the password as described in the Windows Appliance Notes.
The Windows Server appliances generate a new random password whenever the appliance class name changes. If you want 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

In the appliance, WIN08 uses the following third party and open source packages from Cygwin as well as third party and open source packages which may be installed with Windows itself.

Software	Version	Modified	License
alternatives	1.3.30c-2	No	GPLv2
ash	20040127-3	No	BSD
base-files	3.7-1	No	GPLv2
base-passwd	2.2-1	No	GPLv2
bash	3.2.39-19	No	GPLv2
bzip2	1.0.5-2	No	BSD
libbz2	1-1.0.5-2	No	BSD
coreutils	6.10-1	No	GPLv2
cpio	2.9-1	No	GPLv2
crypt	1.1-1	No	GPLv2
curl	7.16.3-1	No	MIT
libcurl4	7.16.3-1	No	MIT
cygrunsrv	1.34-1	No	GPLv2
cygutils	1.3.2-1	No	GPLv2
cygwin	1.5.25-15	No	GPLv2
cygwin-doc	1.4-4	No	Not Applicable
db4	5.20.2-2	No	BSD
diffutils	2.8.7-1	No	GPLv2
editrights	1.01-2	No	BSD
expat	2.0.1-1	No	Thai
libexpat1	2.0.1-1	No	Thai
libexpat1-devel	2.0.1-1	No	Thai
file	4.21-1	No	BSD
findutils	4.4.0-1	No	GPLv3
gawk	3.1.6-1	No	GPLv3
libgdbm4	1.8.3-8	No	GPLv2
libintl2	0.12.1-3	No	GPLv2
libintl3	0.14.5-1	No	GPLv2
grep	2.5.1a-4	No	GPLv2
groff	1.18.1-2	No	GPLv2
gzip	1.3.12-2	No	GPLv2
ipcalc	0.41-1	No	GPLv2
less	382-1	No	GPLv2
libiconv2	1.11-1	No	GPLv2
libssh2	0.15-1	No	BSD
links	1.00pre20-1	No	GPLv2
login	1.9-7	No	BSD
man	1.6e-1	No	GPLv2
minires	1.01-1	No	GPLv2
libncurses8	5.5-3	No	Thai
openssh	5.0p1-1	No	BSD
openssl	0.9.8h-1	No	BSD
patch	2.5.8-9	No	GPLv2
libpcre0	7.6-2	No	BSD
perl	5.8.8-4	No	Artistic
perl-Error	0.17010-1	No	Artistic
libpopt0	1.6.4-4	No	Thai
libreadline6	5.2.12-10	No	GPLv2
rebase	2.4.4-1	No	GPLv2
rsync	-2.6.9-2	No	GPLv2
run	1.1.10-1	No	GPLv2
sed	4.1.5-2	No	GPLv2
tar	1.20-1	No	GPLv3
libwrap0	7.6-4	No	BSD
termcap	20050421-1	No	BSD
terminfo	5.5_20061104-1	No	MIT
texinfo	4.8a-1	No	GPLv2
tzcode	2008a-1	No	BSD
unzip	5.52-2	No	BSD-Info-Zip
vim	7.1-1	No	Charityware
wget	1.11.3-1	No	GPLv3
which	2.19-1	No	GPLv3
zip	2.32-2	No	BSD-Info-Zip
zlib	1.2.3-2	No	ZLIB
setup	2.573.2.3	No	GPLv2