Creating a Virtual Machine in windows Azure.

Virtual machines, as the name shows these machines are created virtually, it is an application environment that is installed in the software and a user can experience it in the same way as on real hardware device.

Azure provides many computing services Virtual Machines are one of them. You can create, maintain and scale your virtual machine according to your needs. You can add disk to you virtual machines, even you can create virtual machines for application and they can communicate with their private channel.

Lets discuss how we can create a VM in Azure.

From bottom left plus (+) icon select compute> Virtual Machine > Quick Create and 

 1)      Set DNS name e.g as in our case it is “myvm100”.

 2)      Select an image in our case we chose Windows Server R2 Data Center.

 3)      Select the size as in our case it is A2 (2 cores, 3.5 GB memory).

 4)      Set the user name of your choice.

 5)      Set an easy password so that you cannot forget.

 6)      And last set  a region where you want to create the VM. Select the region that is nearest to you.

Now click on the tick mark to create the VM and you can see VM is creating.

After sometime you VM is up and running.

 

 In order to run you VM click on Connect.

It will ask you to store an rdb, give it a path ad save it in your PC.

 Run the rdb file, and then click connect.

 

Enter the username and password you set before creating the VM.

Now click Yes 

And here you go, your VM is up and running.