Azure Cloud Virtualization: Setting Up Your First VM

Introduction

As we know that in traditional corporate data centers, data is stored on physical servers that are typically maintained and managed by the organization itself. And the entire setup requires a huge investment in hardware, infrastructure, and IT personnel. Cloud computing offers flexible and scalable options by allowing users to rent virtual servers on a need basis.

These virtual servers offer the same capabilities as physical servers but without the worry of setting up or maintaining any of the hardware/ infrastructure.

So here, we will explore how to create and configure a virtual server (machine) using Microsoft Azure. We will go step by step through provisioning a virtual machine (VM) in Azure and demonstrate how to manage it. We will choose the right VM size based on workload requirements, configure the network, set up storage, and implement security features to protect resources.

Creating Virtual Machine

Now, let’s see how to create a Virtual Machine using Azure.

Sign in on the Azure Portal with your USER ID and PWD.

URL: https://portal.azure.com

After sign-in, you will land on the home page, from where you can choose “Virtual Machine” service from left navigation and hit on create button to create virtual machines, we can see this on below screenshot.

Now, it will land on the below page after hitting on the create button.

Now we need to create a new resource group and choose an Image (representing OS), Region, Availability zone, right VM size based on workload requirements. Below is the screenshot for demonstration.

Now, we will configure networking system, setting up storage, and implement security features to protect resources. Below is the screenshot for demonstration.

Now hit on Review+Create, and it will land below the page. As you can see, the validation is passed.

Now, after hitting on the Create button, we can see on the below screenshot that deployment is in progress.

Now we can see that deployment is completed on the below screenshot.

Now, hit on Go to resource to see how a virtual machine looks like, and we can see all the essentials that was configured to create this virtual machine.

As you can see in the above screenshot, that Virtual Machine (VM) is ready. Now, we can log in to the VM and install software based on our needs.

Conclusion

In today’s article, we have gone through the steps to create an Azure VM and understand the options available. We shall cover other areas in subsequent articles. Hope you liked the article. Please share your comments below.