{"id":969,"date":"2013-04-11T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudbase.it\/?page_id=969"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:39:31","slug":"windows-cloud-images","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cloudbase.it\/windows-cloud-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Cloud Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row margin_top=&#8221;-50&#8243; bg_type=&#8221;image&#8221; parallax_style=&#8221;vcpb-default&#8221; bg_image_new=&#8221;34140|http:\/\/cloudbase.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Cloud-Images-4.jpg&#8221; bg_image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; bg_override=&#8221;4&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;160px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>Windows Cloud Images<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;30px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4>Deploying Windows Cloud Instances Has Never Been This\u00a0Easy!<\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60px&#8221;]<a href=\"#download\" class=\"btn-shortcode dt-btn-l dt-btn default-btn-color default-btn-hover-color default-btn-bg-color default-btn-bg-hover-color\" id=\"dt-btn-1\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><span>Download Evaluation Images<\/span><\/a>[vc_empty_space height=&#8221;100px&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60px&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;34128&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; image_hovers=&#8221;false&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;50px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;50px&#8221;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<strong>Windows\u00ae Cloud Images<\/strong> are a great way for you to rapidly deploy pre-packaged, fully supported OpenStack\u2122 Windows Guests, including the required support for hypervisor-specific drivers (Hyper-V \/ KVM). Also integrated are the guest initialization tools (Cloudbase-Init\u2122), security updates, proper performance, and security configurations as well as the final Sysprep. Our aim is to guarantee you the maximum cloud deployment quality, but also to make sure that customers won\u2019t need to spend resources on dedicated Windows DevOps for managing Windows workloads and assisting clients.<\/p>\n<p>The major Linux distributions are known for providing images ready for download (for example Ubuntu or CentOS). Even though the same does not apply to Windows due to licensing constraints, Microsoft has granted the rights to distribute <strong>Windows trial images for OpenStack<\/strong> to Cloudbase Solutions, along with a specific End User License Agreement (EULA) that limits the usage to evaluation purposes only, excluding, in particular, any commercial usage (see EULA below).<\/p>\n<p>Our offer comes with managed and unmanaged support packages, including different SLA options. Also included is all of our domain experience in preparing images for third parties, taking into consideration that the customer owns the base Windows OS SKU license (e.g. Volume Licensing, SPLA, or others).<\/p>\n<p>Support for <strong>Windows ARM64 images<\/strong> is also now available.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Supported Hypervisors<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]All the images come with the required hypervisor specific drivers and tools, for example VirtIO for KVM.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;10px&#8221;]<div class=\"standard-arrow bullet-top\"><ul>\n<li>AWS<\/li>\n<li>KVM<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Hyper-V<\/li>\n<li>Nutanix AHV<\/li>\n<li>VMware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>User Access<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]This image comes with RDP enabled.\u00a0<a title=\"Cloud-Init for Windows instances\" href=\"https:\/\/cloudbase.it\/cloudbase-init\/\">Cloudbase-Init<\/a> creates a user called <em>Admin<\/em> during the instance\u00a0initialization.\u00a0Starting with OpenStack Grizzly, the password can be retrieved with:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"\">nova get-password &lt;instance&gt; &lt;SSH_private_key&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>The usual Windows <em>Administrator<\/em>\u00a0user is also available, but in order to enable it the password must be changed by accessing the instance console (e.g. from the Horizon dashboard).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0Ping requests are\u00a0blocked in Windows Server by the firewall by default.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>OpenStack Deployment<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]Deploying your downloaded image to Glance is incredibly easy. You can even specify a hypervisor_type property and support multiple hypervisors with different images, for example in the case of KVM:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"\">gunzip -cd windows_server_2012_r2_standard_eval_kvm_20170321.qcow2.gz | \r\nglance image-create --property hypervisor_type=QEMU --name \"Windows Server 2012 R2 Std Eval\" \r\n--container-format bare --disk-format qcow2 --property os_type=windows<\/pre>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<blockquote class=\"text-big shortcode-blockquote block-style-widget\"><p>More details about deploying the images\u00a0are available in <a href=\"http:\/\/cloudbase.it\/openstack-windows-server-2012-r2-evalution-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;50px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;2&#8243; padding_top=&#8221;50&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;50&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;]<div class=\"ult-just-icon-wrapper  \"><div class=\"align-icon\" style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<div class=\"aio-icon none \" data-animation=\"rotateIn\" data-animation-delay=\"03\" style=\"color:#ffffff;font-size:60px;display:inline-block;\">\n\t<i class=\"font-awesome-new-industry\"><\/i>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;]<section class=\"shortcode-action-box box-style-table no-line fadeInRight animate-element\"><div class=\"\"><h3>Windows Server production Images starting from 230.00 EUR \/ Month<\/h3>\n<p>The offer is valid for any supported Windows version: Windows Server 2025, 2022, 2019, and Windows Client 11, based on the customer&#8217;s Microsoft licensing entitlements.<\/p>\n<p>The provided Windows Server 2012 R2 image is for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">evaluation only and demonstration purposes only<\/span>. Please\u00a0contact us\u00a0for production and\/or custom Windows Cloud Images for both public and private cloud usage.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"shortcode-action-container action-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudbase.it\/about\/#contact\" class=\"btn-shortcode dt-btn-l dt-btn default-btn-color default-btn-hover-color default-btn-bg-color default-btn-bg-hover-color fadeIn animate-element animation-builder ico-right-side\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"dt-btn-2\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Contact us<\/span><i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/div><\/section>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row anchor=&#8221;download&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;50px&#8221;]<div class=\"dt-fancy-separator title-left h2-size style-disabled title-color\" style=\"width: 100%;\"><div class=\"dt-fancy-title\"><span class=\"separator-holder separator-left\"><\/span>Download Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Evaluation for OpenStack<span class=\"separator-holder separator-right\"><\/span><\/div><\/div>[vc_empty_space height=&#8221;50px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row margin_top=&#8221;-50&#8243; bg_type=&#8221;image&#8221; parallax_style=&#8221;vcpb-default&#8221; bg_image_new=&#8221;34140|http:\/\/cloudbase.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Cloud-Images-4.jpg&#8221; bg_image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; bg_override=&#8221;4&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;160px&#8221;][vc_column_text] Windows Cloud Images [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;30px&#8221;][vc_column_text] Deploying Windows Cloud Instances Has Never Been This\u00a0Easy! 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