A Virtual machine is an on-demand, scalable computing resource provided by Microsoft Azure. It's essentially a virtualized computer running in Azure's cloud infrastructure. It is similar to a computer that runs in your own data center, except: It's hosted in Microsoft's cloud data centers. It can run Windows or Linux. And you choose the CPU, RAM, disk size, and networking options. It’s part of Azure’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model, giving you full control over the OS, installed software, and configuration.
In this article I am going to show and annotate how create a virtual machine running on windows operating system. Steps:
Step 1
Login into your Azure portal.
Step 2
In the Azure portal, in the search resources, search for Virtual machine, click enter and select the grayed virtual machine.
Step 3
Select + Create.
Step 4
Under the Basics on your project details, create your resources group.
Step 5
Still under the Basics on the Instance details choose the name of the virtual machine, region, Availability options, Availability zone, Security types, Images and Sizes.
Step 6
Still under the Basics, on the Administrator account fill in the Username and Password.
Step 7
Under the Basics, on the Inbound port rules select your Inbound ports (HTTP (80) and RDP (3389)) because we choose windows as our operating system (Image).
Step 8
Under the Basics, on the Licensing check it.
Step 9
Under the Monitoring, disable the Boot diagnostics if you don't want to expose things about your virtual machine to the cloud provider. In this article we are going to disable it to enable its privacy.
Step 10
Under the Tag, we specify which of the department is responsible for the virtual machine, to easily identify which department is incurring the cost of the virtual machine.
Step 11
Select Review + create
Step 12
After Validation is passed, select Create and wait for deployment.
Step 13
When the deployment is complete, select Go to resources
Step 14
Select the Public IP address to increase your idle timeout. and click on Save
Step 15
On the virtual machine overview page, click on Connect
Step 16
Click on Select the Native RDP
Step 17
Wait for it to complete its configuration, the click on Download RDP file
Step 18
Go your to your Downloads, choose the Download RDP files and open it, Remote Desktop Connection security warning will pop up asking if you would want to connect, click on Connect
Step 19
Then your virtual Administors account credentials will pop up requesting for password, enter the password and click OK
Step 20
Another pop up will come up ,for you to identify the remote desktop connection is from a trusted source with genuine certificate, click yes and it will connect to the Remote desktop.
The Remote Desktop
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