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Using an application ISO file

Using an application ISO file

- [Instructor] In the previous video, I showed you how to copy application binaries up to an EC2 virtual machine instance so that you can have those binaries on hand for installing an application. But what if your binaries exist in the form of an ISO file? Well, certainly you could copy that ISO file up to the Amazon Cloud using the method that I just showed you, that would absolutely work. But what you can do instead is you can mount the ISO file as a drive on your local machine, and then connect that drive to your virtual machine instance. Let me show you how this works. If you take a look at the screen, you can see my W drive, and I've got a folder called Veeam. And if I open this up, I've got a rather old ISO file containing some Veeam software. But let's pretend for a moment that this is a current version of the Veeam software, and that I want to install it on a virtual machine instance. What I'm going to do is right click on the ISO file, and keeping in mind I'm working on the…

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