📄️ About Windows Instances
Before purchasing a Windows Instance, it is important to plan the architecture, networking, and access to the Windows Instances. As a thumb rule:
📄️ Creating Windows Instances
Before creating a Windows Instance, it is important to plan the architecture, networking and access to the Windows Instances. As a thumb rule:
📄️ Connecting to a Windows Instance
Unlike Linux Instances that use SSH connections, Windows Instances use the remote desktop protocol (RDP).
📄️ Viewing Details of Windows Instances
To view the details navigate to Windows Instances Screen, select a Windows Instance and access the Overview tab.
📄️ Viewing Graphs and Utilisation of Windows Instances
Monitoring the performance of your Windows Instances is essential for ensuring optimal resource utilisation and system stability. The Graphs and Utilisation sections provide both real-time insights and historical data, enabling you to track performance trends, analyse resource consumption, and make informed decisions for scaling and alert configuration.
📄️ Configuring Alerts on Windows Instances
Alerts get triggered whenever a configured condition is met. You can create multiple alerts on an instance. Alerts are sent to recipients that you can define and manage.
📄️ Volume Management with Windows Instances
To view see the disks attached to Instance, navigate to Windows Instances Screen, select a Windows Instance, and access the Volumes tab. Windows Instances on Ananta work with the Block Volumes Service and let you carry out basic disk operations.
📄️ Networking Management on Windows Instances
This section explains how to manage the network settings of your Windows instances. You can add a network to connect an instance to a virtual network and assign secondary IP addresses to enable multiple network connections on the same instance. This helps you configure and manage your networking requirements more efficiently.
📄️ Working with Windows Restore Points
Instance Restore Points allow you to create point-in-time images of Instances that preserve all their data volume and (optionally) CPU/memory states. You can use Restore Points to restore Instances quickly.
📄️ Reconfiguring Windows Instances
From Windows Instances Screen, navigate into a Windows Instance and access the Reconfigure tab to see available reconfiguration options.
📄️ Windows Instance Operations
To view all available Instance operations, navigate to Compute > Windows Instances, click the Linux Instance Name, and access the Operations tab.
📄️ Configuring MS SQL Server Admin Password
After successfully provisioning the instance, the next step is to configure SQL Server Account of System Administrator, which has full control and administrative rights. You can log in to the SQL Server using the OS credentials you received in the email.
📄️ Validating Cortex Anti-Malware/Anti-Virus Installation Status on the Server
Refer to the following screenshot to verify that the service is active and running.