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Overview
Accessing and managing your AppsAnywhere development environment can be accomplished by following these instructions.
Access your VM Environment
- RDP to VMSSAH01P
- Run Hyper-V Manager
- Run Connect to Server... to access our VM environment
- Under Select computer type HDCAAHV01P
- Click OK
- You should now see your list of VMs
There are two VMs for you to use, Studio and Player.
NOTE: The Player VM (General - Cloudpaging PLAYER) is a shared VM so ensure to log off when you are done testing an app.
- Right Click your VM
- Click Connect
- Click Start
Recommendation: Change your screen resolution as required (I recommend full 1600 x 900)
Studio
- Username: AppsAnyAdmin
- Password: AppsAnyAdmin
- Background image is set to easily identify this as your Studio VM
- Specifications
- Default size is 80GBs, this can be extended if needed.
- Ram 8GBs
- CPU - 2 cores
Player
- Username: AppsAnyUser
- Password: AppsAnyUser
- Background image is set to easily identify this as the Player VM.
- Specifications
- Default size is 80GBs, this can be extended if needed.
- Ram 8GBs
- CPU - 2 cores
NOTE: AppsAnyAdmin exists here as well but is only needed for managing the VM.
If you accidentally login as AppsAnyAdmin you will be greeted with the WallPaper telling you
"Don't use Admin to test packages"
How to create checkpoints (also know as snapshots)
As you build apps you may want to create a checkpoint so you can roll back to a previous state.
Hyper-V checkpoints can be created using one of two ways: Hyper-V Manager or PowerShell.
Using Hyper-V Manager
- Open Hyper-V Manager
- Shutdown the VM you want to create a Checkpoint for
- Select the VM for which the checkpoint will be created
- Right-click the name of the VM, and then click the Checkpoint.
- The checkpoint is created and can be accessed in the Checkpoints section below.
Renaming your new Checkpoint
- Right Click your VM name
- Choose Rename...
- Add more detail to the beginning of th name. The the below case I added STARTING POINT
APPSANYWHERE Server List
AppsAnywhere
New deployment
VMAAPS01P (HDC) - Portal Server (Internal) - APPSANYWHERE01
VMAAPS02P (ADC) - Portal Server (Internal) - APPSANYWHERE02
APPSANYWHERE.SAULTCOLLEGE.CA (External) – (Barracuda Load Balancer)
VMAACP01P (HDC) - CloudPaging Server
VMAACP02P (ADC) - CloudPaging Server
VMAAFS01P (HDC) - File Server
VMAAAN01P (ADC) - Analytics
VMAACA01P - Cloudpaging Admin Server
VMAACA02P - Cloudpaging Admin Server
Detailed list - AppsAnywhere New deployment
Portal Server -- VMAAPS01P (HDC)
- 172.17.2.201 – DMZ-Barracuda
- Not powered on, Not touched
- DNS – shows as APPSANYWHERE01
- IP 172.17.2.201, GW 172.17.2.1, Mask 255.255.255.0
- DNS – 10.0.2.11, 10.0.2.12
- Need SSH from VMRDVA01P
Portal Server -- VMAAPS02P (ADC)
- 172.17.2.202 – DMZ-Barracuda
- Not powered on, Not touched
- DNS – shows as APPSANYWHERE02
- IP 172.17.2.202, GW 172.17.2.1, Mask 255.255.255.0
- DNS – 10.0.2.11, 10.0.2.12
- Need SSH from VMRDVA01P
APPSANYWHERE – DNS Record of 172.17.2.200 (Barracuda Load Balancer)
CloudPaging Server -- VMAACP01P (HDC)
- 172.16.1.201 – DMZ
- AdminSS and VA-Software2 added as local admins
- RDP Firewall rules set
- Can ping 8.8.8.8
- DNS lookup successful
- DNS Record added (non-domain server)
- Need RDP from 3022 vLAN
CloudPaging Server -- VMAACP02P (ADC)
- 172.16.1.202 – DMZ
- AdminSS and VA-Software2 added as local admins
- RDP Firewall rules set
- Can ping 8.8.8.8
- DNS lookup successful
- DNS Record added (non-domain server)
- Need RDP from 3022 vLAN
File Server – VMAAFS01P (HDC)
- 10.1.40.111 – Server 3140-AppsAnywhere
- Domain Joined
- RDP Firewall rules set
- Can ping 8.8.8.8
- DNS lookup successful
- Windows File Services installed
- AAREPO – re-located to this server E: Drive
- AA_WorkingFiles – re-located to this server F: Drive
- Need RDP from 3022 vLAN
3 Drives have been assigned.
C: OS - 50 GBs
E: Repository - 350GBs
F: Working Files - 300GBs
Analytics – VMAAAN01P (ADC)
- Moved to 3140 vLAN
- DNS Record added (non-domain server)
- Not turned on, Software2 access only
- IP 10.1.40.211, GW 10.1.40.1, Mask 255.255.255.0
- DNS – 10.0.2.11, 10.0.2.12
- Need SSH from VMRDVA01P
Cloudpaging Admin Server – VMAACA01P
- 10.1.40.201 - Server 3140-AppsAnywhere
- Need RDP from 3022 vLAN
- Need 443 from 3022 vLAN
Cloudpaging Admin Server – VMAACA02P
- 10.1.40.202 - Server 3140-AppsAnywhere
- Domain Joined
- VA-Software2 added to Administrators
- RDP Firewall rules set
- Can ping 8.8.8.8
- DNS lookup successful
- Need RDP from 3022 vLAN
- Need 443 from 3022 vLAN