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Fred Chukwuma
Fred Chukwuma

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How To Create A Virtual Machine On Azure Portal

Step 1: Log in to portal.azure.com

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Step 2: On the search researches,services and docs field, search for virtual machines. Select the grayed option and click enter and it will take you to the virtual machine's page.

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Step 3: On the virtual machine's page click on +create

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Step 4: On the basics tab, fill out your project details

Your project details has two basic components to it. Your subscription and your resource group.

  • Azure subscription: Provides you with authenticated and authorized access to Azure accounts

  • Azure resource group: It is a container to manage and aggregate resources in a single unit. It holds all your things for a specific project.

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Step 5: Fill out your instance details.

  • Virtual machine name: It's a text-based label or title that helps you distinguish one virtual machine from another within a virtualization or cloud computing environment.

  • Region: a region refers to a geographical area or location where Microsoft has data centers.

  • Availability options: refer to the various strategies and technologies used to ensure the availability and reliability of IT systems, services, and data.

  • Availability zones: are a way for cloud providers to make their services more reliable and resilient. They do this by creating separate clusters of data centers within a region, so if one cluster has problems, the others can step in to keep things running smoothly.

  • Security type: refers to the method or protocol used to secure and protect data, systems, networks, or communications.

  • Image: typically refers to a pre-configured virtual machine (VM) or server template that contains a snapshot of an operating system, applications, and configurations.

  • VM architecture: This is the underlying structure and components that make up a virtualized computing environment.

  • Size: typically refers to the specification or configuration of various Azure resources, such as virtual machines, storage accounts, and databases.

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Step 6: Put in your username and password and confirm your password in your administrator account details.

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Step 7: Fill in the Inbound port rules details.

  • Public inbound ports: refers to a network port on a computer or device that is accessible from the internet or an external network.

You select your inbound port.
I selected RDP(3389)

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Step 8: You scroll back to the top and select monitoring, it will take you to the monitoring page

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Step 9: In the monitoring page, go to diagnostics and click on disable to avoid monitoring.

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Step 10: Click on review + create. After it's done reviewing you click create.

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Step 11: After the virtual machine is done deploying, you will click on connect at the top

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Step 12: On the next tab, scroll down and in the Native RDP box, click on select.

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Step 13: A pop up will appear on your right, on that pop up, click on DOWNLOAD RDP FILE and you are set.

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Step 14: Go to your download folder and click to open the RDP file that has just being downloaded and put in the Username and Password you used in opening your virtual machine

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And you are good to go!

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