Creating a Virtual Machine

This is Lab 1(Create a Virtual Machine) of quest create and manage cloud resources we are allocated 40 minutes to complete the lab.

Virtual Machine : In simple terms we can use VM's to have more than one OS on a single computer. OS within an OS. It is also used to provide computing services and storage options to anyone over cloud . So putting in perspective of cloud VM provide you an option to use a High end processor say I9(very bad example but bear it) over any machine say even if you have a Pentium processor , one can harness the power of cloud , internet and VM to get Computer with any linux image OS.
Google Cloud Platform : It is public cloud computing services offered by Google . Like AWS and Azure another leader in IAAS services and PAAS services. Compute engine which provides virtual machine is IAAS while App engine is PAAS.
When to use IAAS vs PAAS : IAAS is used if organisation has an inhouse made app and simply need s infrastructure to host it. While PAAS is used to streamline deployment and development using services provided.

Created a VM instance using GUI interface of GCP platform . Gave it

Name : Name of the VM instance
Region : It refers to region where cloud is originally located .Google has logically mapped the physical servers .

For more information on zones and region refer this

zone : the regions are further divided into logical zones withn shared resources.
series : Name of processor series
machine type : CPU RAM
boot disk type : Harddisk space
firewall settings : For handling webserver to allow creating and automatic firewall rule to allow http on port 80.

This is the lab link with all the steps mentioned in it.

Compute Engine : Start Windows

This is lab 1 Option 2(Compute Engine : Start Windows) of quest create and manage cloud resources we are allocated 40 minutes to complete the lab.

Virtual Machine : In simple terms we can use VM's to have more than one OS on a single computer. OS within an OS. It is also used to provide computing services and storage options to anyone over cloud . So putting in perspective of cloud VM provide you an option to use a High end processor say I9(very bad example but bear it) over any machine say even if you have a Pentium processor , one can harness the power of cloud , internet and VM to get Computer with any linux image OS.
Google Cloud Platform : It is public cloud computing services offered by Google . Like AWS and Azure another leader in IAAS services and PAAS services. Compute engine which provides virtual machine is IAAS while App engine is PAAS.
When to use IAAS vs PAAS : IAAS is used if organization has an inhouse made app and simply need s infrastructure to host it. While PAAS is used to streamline deployment and development using services provided.
RDP Server : Remote Desktop Server to access windows machines in Linux Machines we usually use SSH to access the Linux machines.

Created a VM instance using GUI interface of GCP platform . Gave it

Name : Name of the VM instance
Region : It refers to region where cloud is originally located .Google has logically mapped the physical servers .

For more information on zones and region refer this

zone : the regions are further divided into logical zones within shared resources.
series : Name of processor series
machine type : CPU RAM
boot disk type : Harddisk space with Windows Server rather than default Debian server.
Connected RDP to the virtual machine and checked it's status.

This is the lab link with all the steps mentioned in it.