Understanding Virtual Machines In Azure

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Understanding Virtual Machines In Azure

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.

See the dashboard

Happy learning!