Prerequisites

Create required resources beforehand to use those during VM creation. If not created beforehand, required resources will be created during VM creation.

Create Resource Group:

• Go to: https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.ResourceGroup (login to Azure portal first, then click the link)
• Fillup details (i.e. name ‘demo-rg’, select subscription etc.)
• Create

Create required resources:

• Create Network Security Group
• Create VNet and subnet
• Create public IP address
• Create network interface (NIC)
• Associate public IP address to NIC
• Create storage account for VM diagnostics

AZ module installation

• Install Azure PowerShell module: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/install-az-ps
• Or open PowerShell as admin and execute command: Install-Module Az

Create Virtual Machine

• Either use PowerShell ISE in your computer or use Azure Cloud Shell
• When using PowerShell ISE:
  • Run as Admin
  • Login to Azure first
  • Execute commands
  • You can paste all commands and then run line by line (select and run)
  • If Azure command is not recognized:
    • Import-Module Az
    • If still does not work => use Cloud Shell instead
• When using Cloud Shell: select PowerShell (instead of Bash)
• About Get-Credential command:
  • Will ask for VM user name and password
  • VM user name can not be more than 20 chars
• It will take some time to create resources
• Note: Azure VM images come with 128GB OS disk, to change size of OS disk, create custom image or find an image in the marketplace that uses smaller/larger OS disk size

Login to Azure when using local PowerShell or PowerShell ISE

Login-AzAccount       # Login-AzureRmAccount

Connect-AzAccount

Commands to create VM (Cloud Shell is preferred)

# 1
Get-AzSubscription    # Get-AzureRmSubscription

# 2
Set-AzContext -SubscriptionName "Free Trial" # Set-AzureRmContext

# 3
$location = "japaneast"

# 4
$rgName = "IaaS-ps-rg"

# 5
$credential = Get-Credential # set id & password for VM

# 6
New-AzResourceGroup -Name $rgName -Location $location # New-AzureRmResourceGroup

# 7
New-AzVm `
    -ResourceGroupName $rgName `
    -Name "IaaS-ps" `
    -Location $location `
    -VirtualNetworkName "IaaS-ps-vnet" `
    -SubnetName "IaaS-ps-subnet" `
    -SecurityGroupName "IaaS-ps-nsg" `
    -PublicIpAddressName "IaaS-ps-ip" `
    -OpenPorts 80,3389 `
    -Credential $credential  # New-AzureRmVm

# 8
$ipAddress = Get-AzPublicIpAddress -ResourceGroupName Iaas-ps-rg `
         | Select-Object -ExpandProperty IpAddress  # Get-AzureRmPublicIpAddress

# 9
$ipAddress # just to see ip address of the created vm

Connect to virtual machine

See: Connecting to virtual machine