Starting a Windows Virtual Machine on Google Compute Engine

Google Cloud Compute Engine is one of the most popular services offered by Google. It allows you to create, handle, and manage virtual machines. Compute Engine offers a variety of different virtual machines depending on the workload you need to maintain. There are VMs for high memory workload; VMs for high CPU workload and VMs designed to be used for high I/O operations. The big advantage of using Compute Engine VMs is that whether you can't find a VM type that suits your needs, you can create one with custom CPUs and memory size. Compute Engine also allows you to create a group of VMs to meet the scaling requirements.

In this lab, you will create a Windows compute engine VM, and you will connect to it through RDP using the Microsoft RDP client.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:

• Create a Windows Compute Engine VM
• Connect to the VM by using the Microsoft RDP client

Intended Audience

This lab is intended for:

• Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) certification candidates
• Cloud engineers who are interested in creating and handling a compute engine VM
• Individuals who want to start a VM in the Google Cloud environment