Steps
- Introduction of Virtual Machine
- Sign in to the Azure portal
- Create a Virtual machine
- Connect to the virtual machine
- Clean up resources
1. Introduction
What are Virtual Machines?
- VMs are emulations of computer systems.
- They provide the functionality of a physical computer.
Why Azure Virtual Machines?
- On-demand, scalable computing resources.
- Flexibility: Choice of OS, size, and configuration.
- Scalability: Adjust resources based on demand.
- Support for Windows and Linux.
- Full administrative control over the VM.
Azure virtual machines (VMs) can be created through the Azure portal. This method provides a browser-based user interface to create VMs and their associated resources. This quickstart shows you how to use the Azure portal to deploy a virtual machine (VM) in Azure that runs Windows Server 2019. To see your VM in action, you then RDP to the VM and install the IIS web server.
- If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin
- Click try Azure for free and follow the prompt
2. Sign in to the Azure
Sign in to the Azure portal
3. Create a virtual machine
- Enter virtual machines in the search bar
Under services select virtual machine
On the virtual machines page, select Create and the Azure virtual machineThe Create a virtual machine page opens
On the Basics tab under Project details enter Azure Subscription 1 for the Subscription and onyekwereRG for the Resource group created or enter the existing name.
Under Instant details enter onyekwereVM for the Virtual machine name
Choose Windows Server 2022 Datacenter; Azure edition- x64 Gen 2 for the Image.
Leave others at defaults
- Under the Administrator account provide a username such as azureuser and a password
- Confirm the password
- Under inbound port rules, choose Allow selected port and then select RDP (3389) and HTTP (80) from the drop-down
- Leave the rest at default
- Click review and create
After validation runs, select the Create button at the bottom of the page
After deployment is completed, select Go to resource
4. Connect to Virtual Machine
Create a remote desktop connection to the virtual machine.
These directions tell you how to connect to your VM from a Windows computer. On a Mac, you need an RDP client such as this Remote Desktop Client from the Mac App Store
- On the overview page of your virtual machine, select the Connect > RDP
In the Connect with RDP tab, keep the default option to connect by IP address over port 3389, and click on Download RDP file
Open the downloaded RDP file and click Connect when prompted.
In the Windows Security window, enter your password
Click OK.
- You may receive a certificate warning during the sign-in process.
- Click View certification to install Certification.
- Click on install
- Certificate import wizard
- Click next
- Click Finish
- Click Yes to create the connection and your Virtual Desktop is created
5. Clean Up
Delete Resources
- When no longer needed, you can delete the resource group, virtual machine, and all related resources.
- On the Overview page for the VM, select the Resource group link.
- At the top of the page for the resource group, select Delete resource group.
- A page will open warning you that you are about to delete resources. Type the name of the resource group
- Select Delete to finish deleting the resources and the resource group.
Top comments (2)
Clear walkthrough. One thing that catches every team we work with: once the VM is up, they want to move data between the VM and on-prem Windows desktops without copying. The cleanest path is mounting the same cloud storage as a drive letter on both — ScsDriver (USD 9.99/year) does WebDAV / S3 / Azure Blob as a Windows drive letter on the VM and on the laptop, so files appear to live on D: in both places.
Solid step-by-step for the VM creation. The follow-up that often comes next: 'now I need to give my local Windows desktop a drive-letter view of the Azure Files share, not just the VM'. Two patterns we use:
A few operational notes for Azure VMs in particular: