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Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Launch clients

Version 2018.11

fsx.w.wrkshp.2018.11


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Prerequisites

  • An AWS account with administrative level access
  • An Amazon EC2 key pair

If a key pair has not been previously created in your account, please refer to Creating a Key Pair Using Amazon EC2 from the AWS EC2 User's Guide.

Verify that the key pair is created in the same AWS region you will use for the workshop.

WARNING!! This workshop environment will exceed your free-usage tier. You will incur charges as a result of building this environment and executing the scripts included in this workshop. Delete all AWS resources created during this workshop so you don’t continue to incur additional compute and storage charges.


Launch clients

You must first complete Prerequisites and the previous step Create a file system

Step 2.1: Launch a Windows EC2 instance

  • Click on the link below to log in to the Amazon EC2 Console in the same AWS region where you launched your CloudFormation stack.
AWS Region Code Region Name
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)
eu-west-1 EU West (Ireland)
  • Launch an EC2 instance with the following configuration details. If a value isn't specified below, accept the default value. Create one EC2 instance per table below.
Configuration detail Value
Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Base
Instance Type c5.2xlarge
Number of instances 1
Network Select the VPC Id created in the prerequisites section (to verify the the VPC Id, view the output of the AWS CloudFormation stack)
Domain join directory Select the Directory Id created in the prerequisites section (to verify the the Directory Id, view the output of the AWS CloudFormation stack)
IAM role Select fsx-workshop-prerequisites...
Add tags Key=Name; Value=Windows Server 2016 - FSx Workshop
Security group Select the existing default VPC security group
EC2 key pair Select an existing EC2 key pair you have access to
  • Launch the instance

Step 2.2: Launch a Linux EC2 instance

  • Click on the link below to log in to the Amazon EC2 Console in the same AWS region where you launched your CloudFormation stack.
AWS Region Code Region Name
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)
eu-west-1 EU West (Ireland)
  • Launch an EC2 instance with the following configuration details. If a value isn't specified below, accept the default value. Create one EC2 instance per table below.
Configuration detail Value
Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03.0 (HVM), SSD Volume Type
Instance Type c5.2xlarge
Number of instances 1
Network Select the VPC Id created in the prerequisites section (to verify the the VPC Id, view the output of the AWS CloudFormation stack)
Add tags Key=Name; Value=Amazon Linux - FSx Workshop
Security group Select the existing default VPC security group
EC2 key pair Select an existing EC2 key pair you have access to
  • Launch the instance

Step 2.3: Launch two Amazon WorkSpaces

  • Click on the link below to log in to the Amazon WorkSpaces Console in the same AWS region where you launched your CloudFormation stack.
AWS Region Code Region Name
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)
eu-west-1 EU West (Ireland)
  • Launch the WorkSpaces with the following configuration details. If a value isn't specified below, accept the default value. Create one EC2 instance per table below.
Directory Value
Directory Select the Directory Id created in the prerequisites section (to verify the the Directory Id, view the output of the AWS CloudFormation stack)
Enable Self Service Permissions Yes
  • Create a user with the following details.
Detail Value
Username shawn
First Name Shawn
Last Name Spencer
Email Enter an email address you have access to
  • Click +Create Additional Users
  • Create a second user with the following details.
Detail Value
Username burton
First Name Burton
Last Name Guster
Email Enter an email address you have access to (this can be the same email you used above)
  • Click Create Users

  • Click Next Step

  • Assign WorkSpaces bundle with the following details.

Username Bundle
\burton Standard with Windows 10
\shawn Standard with Amazon Linux 2
  • Click Next Step
  • Change the Running Mode to Always On
  • Click Next Step
  • Click Launch WorkSpaces

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License Summary

This sample code is made available under a modified MIT license. See the LICENSE file.