Manage Virtual Machines in Azure

Introduction

• Azure VM management
• What you should know

1. Azure VM Basics

• Create an Azure VM
• Create an Azure VM with a preset configuration
• Connect to a Windows virtual machine
• Connect to a Linux virtual machine

2. Architecture

• Understand VM availability options
• Choose a VM's architecture and size
• Work with spot instances
• Reserve VM capacity
• Create proximity placement groups

3. Security and Identity

• Choose a VM's security type
• Assign port rules to a VM
• Create managed identities
• Connect a VM to the AD
• Grant an Azure AD user logon permission

4. Storage

• Create and attach a new disk
• Attach an existing disk

5. Virtual Machine Management, Maintenance, and Protection

• Enable disaster recovery
• Virtual machine patching and hot patching
• Shut down virtual machines automatically
• Boot diagnostics and alerting
• VM tagging

6. Networking

• Create a virtual network
• Create a subnet
• Create a public IP address
• Create a virtual network firewall
• Create firewall rules

7. Applications and Customization

• Deploy VM extensions
• Instal applications on Azure VMs

8. Working with VMs

• Start, stop, and restart VMs
• Make a configuration change to a VM
• Monitoring VM performance
• Create alert rules
• Back up a virtual machine
• Restore a VM backup
• Monitor VM patching
• Use Azure Advisor to check best practice compliance
• Examine the VM topology map
• Where to learn more
• Delete a VM

Conclusion

• Where to learn more