In the last post, we reviewed the ECS (Elastic Computing Service) Of Alibaba Cloud. Now, In this post, we will try to create our first SQL SERVER windows server within a few basic steps.
Here the best part is you can go with either PAY-AS-YOU-GO or monthly subscription and choose any operating system, configuration depends upon your need and budget.
Prerequisites:- You should have Alibaba Cloud account.
Once you sign in with your username and password then follow below steps.
Step 1: After login click on the console option as shown in below figure
Step 2:- You will get the Dashboard screen. Here You have to click on Products and select Elastic compute Service as shown in below screen.
Step 3:- You will get below screen where you will find your existing resources in the specific region in the middle.
We can also view all existing instances from Instances menu option on the left-hand side. so just click it.
Step 4: Here as you can see below on the screen. You will get the list of all the instances as a tabular list in the middle. You can change the region from the upper left option of the region.
As we have to create a new instance of Windows server with SQL SERVER configuration so just click on Create instance as shown in the above figure.
Step 5:- As you click the button you will find the below screen where you can define your own configuration & operating system from the available list.
So, let’s start from the top where you need to select the Billing method which could be Subscription basis or Pay AS You Go basis depends upon your need you can avail this.
In the next step, you have to select the region. Which is again depends on your product need. For example, I am in India and creating a product for Indian Market so, I have selected Mumbai region (Asia).
After selecting the region you have the option to select the CPU and RAM. Just to let you know here if you go for Subscription basis then there might be some extra option for CPU or RAM. here in our example, we are going with PAY AS YOU GO option so we have some less option for CPU but it is more than enough.
Step 6: Once the CPU & RAM is finalized in the next step we have to choose the operating system. Here we have a public image, custom image, shared image & Marketplace image option.
As most of the time Marketplace have an image which we required so we can use as is if required else we can create a public image or use other option which is available.
Here in this example, we are using marketplace image
So, just click on Select from Image market. when you click this option you will get a pop window with various pre-built image option where some of them are free and some of them are not free.
For the current demo, I am using a free image as shown in below screen.
Step 7:- After selecting the image the next step is to choose the Hard Disk. Where we have 2 options ULTRA CLOUD & SSD CLOUD disk
Now, It again depends upon the cost and performance matrix which one would you like to have on your machine. I am selecting ULTRA cloud disk 40 GB for the demo.
Step 8:- Now once this is done in the next step you have to check the Network billing method. Here you have to define network bandwidth depends upon your need.
Apart from this as you can see for security reason you can open or close the port as per your need. some common port configuration can be done here like 80,443 etc.
Step 9:- You are almost done. On the next screen, you will see the existing configuration and here you have 2 great features
1) You can save the current configuration template which you can launch later if required.
2) You can configure the release of the resource as well for example the current configuration which I am doing will be autorelease at the specific time.
Step 10:- Once you have done with this step and accept the term and condition you are good to go and you will be redirected to Instances page.
Here you can see your recently, created instance is available. Once it is started. In the next step you can access the machine, by clicking more option, apart from this you can reset the password and release the resource at any time.
Step 11:- Just click on connect and provide proper username & Password which you set for VM.
I hope you enjoyed the setup of the machine in 10 easy steps.
In the next blog, we will see something more interesting in Alibaba Cloud.
