[Openstack-operators] How do you manage your windows instances

Razique Mahroua razique.mahroua at gmail.com
Wed May 15 08:31:31 UTC 2013


Joe, George, thank you for the answers!

I had a hard time as well making the cloudinit working with my Essex environment.
I'll give a shot on that one 
https://github.com/jordanrinke/openstack

and let you know!

Regards,
Razique

Le 14 mai 2013 à 17:23, GMI <gmi68745 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi Razique,
> 
> You can use the Windows cloudinit to set an admin password among other
> things (https://github.com/cloudbase/cloudbase-init).
> 
> Recovery - use the VNC console and troubleshoot Windows boot problems as
> normal
> 
> Disk attachment - it's not any different than any hot-pluggable device, so
> the users have to learn how to use it
> 
> Updates - major updates (SP) should be incorporated in new versions of the
> provided baselines, but for day to day instance OS patch and management, the
> users are responsible
> 
> Hope this helps,
> George
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Razique Mahroua [mailto:razique.mahroua at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:51 AM
> To: openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: [Openstack-operators] How do you manage your windows instances
> 
> Hi guys, 
> how do you manage the following items : 
> 	. User password (do you know if it's possible to configure the
> instance so once the user spawn it for the first time, the user is asked to
> change his password)
> 	. Recovery  (do you have any way to debug your customers's
> instances, how do you connect to them (same applies for Linux-based images
> actually))
> 	. Disk attachment (are your customers aware they need to go to the
> disk manager after they added a disk if they want to start to use it?
> 	. Updates (Are the updates managed by your user,or do you regularly
> update your images?
> 
> Thank you!
> Razique
> 
> 
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