Prerequisites

• What is Virtualization?
• What is Virtual Machine (VM)?
• What is provisioning?

Before creating Virtual Machine

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

Creating Virtual Machine

• Creating VM using Azure portal
• Creating VM using PowerShell
• Creating VM using Azure CLI
• Creating VM using ARM template

After creating Virtual Machine

• VM configuration (High availability, replication, storage type etc.)
• Networking (i.e. NSGs)
• Assigning IP addresses
• Adding VHDs if needed
• etc.