Create Virtual Machine (VM) in Azure
To create Virtual Machine (VM) in Azure, please follow below steps.
Step 1: Login to your Azure account.
Step 2: Search and goto Virtual Machine service.
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Step 3: Here you will see all the virtual machines present in your subscriptions and which of them are
running and other info. And look for the subscription which is selected, you can change the subscription
in subscription filter if your VM is present in other subscription or you can select ALL value in
Subscription filter.
And as of now, we don’t have any virtual machines present in our subscription.
So now, we’ll create a Virtual Machine (VM) and then will connect to it.
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Create Virtual Machine (VM) in Azure
Create Virtual Machine in Azure -
Step 1: Click on Create button.
Step 2: Now click on Azure Virtual Machine.
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Step 3: Select and enter all required details a shown below,
Select Subscription in which you want to create your VM
Select Resource Group in which you want to create your
VM, select existing one or you can create a new one
Enter VM name
Select Region in which you want to create your VM
Select option as No Infra redundancy required, will discuss in
detail in next session
Scroll down a bit and select option as shown below,
Select Security Type as Standard
Select Ubuntu Image, here we selected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Select VM Architecture as x64
Select VM Size for RAM and CPU, you can
change the size as per requirement
Select Authentication Type as Password
Again you can change it to SSH Key as per requirement
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Scroll down a bit and select options as shown below,
Enter Username for VM
Enter Password for VM
Select Allow Selected Ports to allow access
Select Port - SSH (22), so we will be able
to access that VM else you will need to
add it manually. If OS is Windows, then
select Port as RDP (3389).
Step 4: Click on button - Next: Disks >
Step 5: Select and enter info as shown below.
Select the OS Disk, here we are selecting as
Standard SSD. Change based on requirements
Click on Checkbox if you want to delete when
associated VM gets deleted i.e. VM which we are
creating
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Scroll down a bit, then select and enter info as shown below,
Select the Key Management, here we are
keeping it as default to Platform-managed key.
You can attach any existing managed disk if you have
OR
You can create and then attach that managed disk
Step 6: Now click on button – Next : Networking >
Create a new Virtual Network (VNET) else you
can select the existing VNET
Select the Subnet
Select Public IP if any present in your
subscription, else keep it as new.
Select NIC Network Security Group, here
we’re selecting as Basic
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Scroll down a bit, then select and enter info as shown below.
Select if you want to allow traffic on Ports
Select Ports on which you want to allow traffic
You can select this option if you want NIC
and Public IP associated with this VM.
You can mark this checkbox if you want low
latency & high throughput on NW Interface
Select Load Balancing Option, in this
example we’ll keep it as None. You can
use Azure Load Balancer or Application
Gateway as per requirement.
Step 7: Now click on button – Next : Management >
Step 8: Select and enter the info as shown below,
Select checkbox if you want to create System
Managed Identity else leave it as unchecked
To enable corporate Active Directory credential
to login to VM else leave it as unchecked
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Scroll down a bit, then select or enter info as shown below.
Select checkbox if you want to configures
your virtual machine to automatically Shut
down daily.
Select Patch orchestration options, else leave it
as default. This allow you to control how patches
will be applied to your virtual machine.
Step 9: Now click on button – Next : Monitoring >
Step 10: Select and enter the required info as shown below,
Enable this checkbox if you want
to Add commonly used alert rule
Enable this feature to troubleshoot boot failures
for custom or platform images.
Note – This can increase the cost for data traffic in
storage account
Enable it to get metrics every minute for
your virtual machine and use it to set alert
for your VM.
Step 11: Now click on button – Next : Advanced >
Step 12: Select and enter the required info as shown below,
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Select extension to add new features, like
configuration management, for e.g. Custom
Script Extension
Using this option, you can easily add or
remove applications on your VM after VM
creation.
Scroll down a bit, then select and enter info as shown below,
Use this to inject/pass a script or other
metadata or pre-install packages into a
Microsoft Azure virtual machine (VM) at
provisioning time.
If you want any file or data to be accessible
to your applications throughout the
lifetime of the virtual machine.
Scroll down till the end if the page, as we will keep those option as default for this example.
Step 13: Now click on button – Next : Tags >
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Step 14: Select and enter the required info as shown below,
Added tag for environment. You can identify
the resources based on tags and also you can
use it Azure Policy.
You can add more tags as per requirements
Step 15: Now click on button – Next : Review + create >
Step 16: Click on Create button.
Here you can see, how much cost it will incur
per hour for your VM.
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Now you will this message, as Deployment is in progress as it is deploying our VM and its associated
resources
Wait for few minutes, then you will see below message that your deployment is complete
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Step 16: Click on Go to resource button to goto your newly created VM. And now you can see your VM.
Now you can also goto Virtual Machine Service to see what virtual machines are present now. Check the
steps given at start of this document. And then you will see all the VMs present in your subscription.
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Connecting to Virtual Machine using Serial Console -
Step 1: Goto your Virtual Machine.
Step 2: Search Serial Console in search bar.
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Step 3: Click on Serial Console button.
Step 4: Enter Username and Password to login to VM.
If the user credentials are correct then you will be able to access the VM using Serial Console.
Step 5: To disconnect serial console session / Logout just execute below command,
exit
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Connecting to Virtual Machine using SSH Client -
Step 1: Goto your Virtual Machine.
Step 2: Copy Public IP of your VM.
Note – Port 22 inbound is already added when we created the VM
Step 3: Open Putty application and enter Public IP copied from Step 2 in host field and port should be
22.
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Step 6: Click on Open button.
Step 7: Enter the user name and password to login to VM. Hit Enter button.
And that’s it, finally you are able to connect to your Azure Virtual Machine using SSH Client i.e. Putty
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