Introduction

The current Cloud Stack management server runs only on Linux servers. The purpose of this feature is to run Cloud Stack management server on windows as well with out using Cygwin. This document will illustrate what changes we may need to do at code level and script level and also may introduce some procedures to have in place before run the management server on windows.

Scope

Should able to start/stop/restart management server on windows machines. Do remember that we are not trying to  manage development setup as well on windows.

Procedure

The following modules need to run from windows as well without using cygwin

  1. Deploy DB
  2. Seed system template onto secondary storage location
  3. start/stop/restart management server