Creating a Virtual Machine in Azure Portal.

Hello everyone, this article will focus on step-by-step process on how to create a virtual machine in Azure.

What is a Virtual machine?
A virtual machine is a digital emulation of a physical computer that runs an operating system and applications just like a physical machine.

Creating a Virtual Machine in Azure Portal

• In the Search resources, services and docs field, type virtual machines.
  

• Click the Create button to start the virtual machine creation process
  

• From the options choose Create a virtual machine hosted by Azure.
  

• Enter Project details this would be our subscription, resource group and Virtual Machine Name.
  

• Provide information about our virtual machine, such as the operating system, size, and other configuration settings.
  

• Create an Administrator Account. We need a username and a password in case we need to connect to the Virtual Machine.

• Select the inbound port rule as SSH if we selected a Linux VM and RDP if it's a windows VM.
  

• Check the licensing.
  

• Click on the Monitoring tab, and click on disable under boot diagnostics.
  

• Click on the Tags tab, and assign name/value pairs to categorize resources. (Optional depending on use-case.)
  

• Click on Review + Create button.
  

• If the validation passes, the deployment will go on.
  Click Create to continue.
  

• Check the Status and Go to resource.
  

• Once the virtual machine has been deployed, we can access it by clicking on the Connect button in the virtual machine blade in the Azure portal.
  

• Click Native RDP and click on Select.
  Wait for configured sign to be displayed on the right hand side before you click on Download RDP.
  

• Open the RDP file from local computer.
  

• Click on Connect.
  

• Enter the Admin details created during the process of creating the VM.
  

• Accept the terms
  
  

• You can start using your virtual machine.