Introduction
This article will cover the following things,
- Brief Concepts and Pre-requisites
- Implementation – Create Virtual Machines in Azure
- Implementation – Connect to Virtual Machine using RDP
Brief Concepts
What is Windows Azure Virtual Machine?
- It is an operating system or application environment that is installed on software, which reproduces dedicated hardware.
- End user has the same experience on a virtual machine as they would have on dedicated hardware.
Benefits
- Limits costs by reducing the need for physical hardware systems.
- Efficiently use hardware, which lowers the quantities of hardware and associated maintenance costs, and reduces power and cooling demand
- Ease of management because virtual hardware does not fail.
Vendors?
- VMware - mature product portfolio, with many years of use in the IT industry
- Microsoft - a bit of a late player to virtualization, Microsoft is showing considerable progress.
Pre-requisites
Read the following article to create an Azure account and for some basic information about Azure to get started.
Implementation – Create Virtual Machines in Azure
Steps to be followed,
- Open Azure portal and go to virtual machines section and click on the Add symbol to add “virtual machines”.
- Choose a windows server machine from Microsoft
- Select the “Windows server 2008 SP1” and deployment model as “Classic” and click on Create
- Configure the basic settings with the unique name and use existing resource group and click on “Next”
- Then choose the VM size and select with the lowest configuration to get started.
- Configure the optional features and select the disk-type as “standard” and then click on “OK”
- Verify the summary and click on OK and wait for few minutes for the deployment.
- See the virtual machines section and there you can see the VM just added by us.
Implementation – Connect to the Virtual Machine
Steps to be followed,
- Go the virtual machines section and select the VM and then click on connect to download the RDP file.
- Connect to the virtual machine using the RDP file using the username and password we used while creating the VM.
Happy learning!