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How To Create A Virtual Machine Using Azure Step by Step Guide.

What Is Azure Virtual Machine (VN) All About
First you have to have the insight what a virtual machine is (yes what a virtual machine is all about)

What is Azure Virtual Machine? Azure Virtual Machine (VN) are Software Emulations of Physical computers like laptop, smart phone and software, it is Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) it includes Virtual processors, memory, storage and networking. and can connect to the internet if needed. While the parts that make up your computer (called hardware) are physical and tangible, VMs are often thought of as virtual computers or software-defined computers within physical servers, existing only as code.

How does a virtual machine work?:It work by creating a software-based, or "virtual" version of a computer, with dedicated amounts of CPU, memory, and storage that are "borrowed" from a physical host computer—such as your personal computer— and/or a remote server—such as a server in a cloud provider's datacenter. A virtual machine is a computer file, typically called an image, that behaves like an actual computer.

Step 1 Create an account with Microsoft Azure

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Step 2 login to your account

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Step 3 Click the on the search button, search for virtual machine

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Step 4 Choose your subscription

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*Step 5 *choose your resource group by creating new resource group

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*Step 6 *Give your virtual machine a name

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Step 7 Select a Region of your choice

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Step 8 choose image (Windows server)

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Step 9_ choose your user name and password_

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Step 10_ Select inbound ports_

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Step 11 Review and create

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Step 12 How Virtual Machine has been Deployed, Click on resource

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Step 13 How Virtual Machine has been created, click on Connect

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Step 14 Select and Download RDP

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Step 15 Open downloaded RDP file and click connect

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Step 16 Enter your password

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Step 17 Click yes to connect

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Step 18 Yes Our Virtual Machine has spin up

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YES WE DID IT TOGETHER

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