Azure Administration: Deploy and Manage Virtual Machines

Introduction

• How to manage Azure virtual machines (VMs)
• What you should know

1. Create and Configure a VM for Windows and Linux

• Availability set overview
• Configure high availability with an availability set
• Virtual machine networking overview
• Configure networking in the portal
• Create a basic virtual network using PowerShell
• Configure storage
• Configure virtual machine size
• Deploy and configure scale sets
• Configure diagnostic settings
• Configure and analyze metrics

2. Automate Deployment of Virtual Machines

• Azure templates overview
• Create a template from a VM deployment
• Modify Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template
• Deploy from a template using PowerShell
• Configure location using custom deployment

3. Manage Azure Virtual Machines

• Create a basic virtual machine using the portal
• Add data disks
• Add network interfaces
• Apply a PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) using PowerShell
• Apply a PowerShell DSC using the portal
• Apply a custom script extension using the portal
• Apply a custom script extension using PowerShell
• Move a virtual machine to a resource group
• Redeploy virtual machines

4. Manage Virtual Machine Backups

• Azure virtual machine backup
• Create and configure a Recovery Services vault
• Create and configure a Recovery Services vault using PowerShell
• Create an Azure virtual machine backup
• Restore an Azure virtual machine

Conclusion

• Next steps