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Emmanuel Essien
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Azure Virtual Machine

What Is Azure Virtual Machine?

One essential part of Microsoft Azure's Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) portfolio are Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). You can run apps and services in the cloud thanks to their scalable computing resources. Here are a few salient characteristics and advantages:

  1. On-Demand Computing: You can scale virtual machines (VMs) up or down in response to demand.

  2. Customizable: To suit your unique requirements, select from a range of operating systems (Windows, Linux) and configurations.

  3. Flexible Pricing: For long-term savings, pay only for the compute resources you use, with the option to reserve instances.

  4. Azure Service Integration: VMs can be effortlessly integrated with other Azure services, including Azure Networking, Azure Storage, and Azure Active Directory.

  5. High Availability: To guarantee that your apps are always accessible, Azure provides solutions for load balancing and redundancy.

  6. Security Features: Network security groups, Azure Security Center, and other integrated security tools and services are offered by Azure.

  7. Global Reach: For improved performance and compliance, install virtual machines (VMs) across several Azure regions globally.

Azure virtual machines are perfect for a number of purposes, such as enterprise application running, development and testing environments, and application hosting.

Creating and connecting to an Azure Virtual Machine involves several steps. Here’s a simplified guide to help you through the process:

  • Step 1: Sign in to Azure Portal

  • Go to the Azure Portal.

  • Sign in with your Microsoft account.

Azure Portal Page

  • Step 2: Search For Vitual Machine On the Search Bar Or you go to PORTAL Menu and click to open.

Search Bar Or Portal Menu

  • Step 3: After Opening the Virtual Option, U click on Create on the left hand side of the screen

Tap on Create Option

Tap On Azure Machines

  • Step 4: Once you have an Active Subscription you select.

  • Step 5: You also Create a New Resource Group

  • Step 6: Create A Virtual Machine Name

Choose an Active Subscription And Create A New Resource Group

Active Subscription And New Resource Group

  • Step 7: Choose A Region from the list of regions Azure Provides

Choose A Region

Lists Of Azure Regions

  • Step 8: Set Ur Security Type To Be Standard

Security Type

  • Step 9: Choose An Operating Syetem Image For your VM

Operating System List For your VM

  • Step 10: Take Note of the size. How big u want the storage of your VM to be depending on the workload

Size

  • Step 11: We Need To Create Our Username and Password. By default Azure Uses password to be password123#

Create A Username And Password

  • Step 12: Select Inbound Ports By default, access to the virtual machine is restricted to sources in the same virtual network, and traffic from Azure load balancing solutions.

Select Inbound Ports

  • Step 13: You Review And Create

Review And Create

Deployment In Progress

Deployed Successfully

  • Step 14: You go to resource

Go To Resource

  • Step 15: You Click On Connect To Lunch the VM

Connect to VM

Connect VM

  • Step 16: By Default, we are going to connect to the VM using RDP. To do this we need to first need to Download The RDP so we can Launch the VM

Download RDP

Download RDP

  • Step 17: After Downloading The RDP file then we can open and connect to launch the VM

Connect To your VM

Insert Password We Created

VM Windows

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