Jun 15, 2016
In today’s blog post, I will talk about creating virtual machines in Azure. In addition to creating virtual machines on your on-premises server, you can also deploy cloud based VM’s in Microsoft Azure. The deployed virtual machines are placed in one of the datacentres and the users are given various interfaces to connect and work them.
When you create a virtual machine, the portal asks you details such as a hostname, pricing tier, resource group, subscription information, location, username and various other optional configurations.
Once you have specified these options, the portal creates a virtual machines with the parameters specified by you. Note that only generation 1 virtual machines are supported at this stage. If you are using VMware infrastructure, then using the virtual machine converter, you can convert VMware based virtual machines to Hyper-V format and move to Microsoft Azure.
When you are creating your virtual machines, you can either quick create or select from the gallery.
The gallery offers option like Windows Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server and visual studio. You can also use Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, CentOS, SUSE, Oracle and Puppet Labs.
Once the virtual machines are created, you can view and modify the properties of the virtual machines from the portal or using PowerShell. Each virtual machine comes with a 127GB operating system disk and a temporary disk for proving temporary storage to applications. You should not save anything to the temporary disk. If you wish, you can add additional disks to the virtual machines.
To log on to the virtual machines, you can download the .rdp file from the portal and connect via remote desktop. Alternatively, you can use the Secure Shell (SSH) client for Linux operating systems. Each virtual machine created by using an image from the Azure gallery comes with the local Windows Firewall enabled. Windows Firewall is configured with inbound rules according to the default endpoints created for the specific virtual machine.
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San Roy
San is a highly skilled IT Infrastructure professional with over 15 years experience in a technical training capacity. Throughout his career as a technical training consultant San Has been responsible for the development of numerous IT professionals, providing knowledge and expertise in the areas of Server Operating Systems, Database Management Systems, Messaging and Collaboration. San primarily specialises in delivering training in Microsoft products including Windows Server OS, Windows Client OS, SQL Server, SharePoint Server and Exchange Server. Through his years of practical experience as a technical trainer he is able to provide added insight and value to students that reach beyond the scope of a standard course outline. San has established himself as one of New Horizons' preferred trainers by continually bringing a combination of technical expertise and personality to the classroom each day.
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