Introduction to Azure virtual machines

Suppose you work for a company doing medical research and you’re responsible for managing the on-premises servers. The servers you administer run all the company infrastructure, from web servers to databases. However, the hardware is aging and starting to struggle to keep up with some of the new data analysis applications being deployed to it.

You could upgrade all the hardware, but that’s not appealing for several reasons:

The servers are physically scattered all around the world with minimal staff in each location. We’d like to centralize the upgrade to our home office.
The company runs custom data analysis software on several versions and flavors of Windows and Linux, sometimes set up with odd configurations that aren’t entirely understood. We need a way to test our deployments completely and try different configurations to make sure everything is working before we transition the work.
Business is booming, and the company is growing fast. It’s likely that the load on the internal servers, particularly the databases, will continue to grow, requiring us to either buy for the future or come up with a scaling plan to handle the growth.

Create a Linux virtual machine in Azure

You have been procured by a worldwide auto hustling organization to modernize their whole observing and web stage. They have chosen to supplant existing Linux servers with an assortment of cloud-based foundation that use the most recent in structural patterns. Some portion of the framework will run on the Azure serverless stage utilizing Azure Functions to process continuous race information, pushing insights, race information, and other significant bits of broke down data into groups of databases. They need to keep their current site, which was simply revised a year ago, yet have it associate into this cutting edge information stream.

Create a Windows virtual machine in Azure

Envision you work for an organization that does video information preparing and design investigation. You are building another model stage to process the video from traffic cameras, dissect drifts, and give significant information to traffic and street upgrades.

To improve your calculations, you have made courses of action with a few new urban communities to gather their traffic camera information. Anyway not the entirety of the video information is in a similar organization, and a considerable lot of the arrangements just have Windows codecs to unravel the information. Along these lines, you have chosen to utilize Virtual Machines (VMs) to do the underlying preparing and afterward push the information onto Azure Functions that will procedure a standard organization. This methodology will permit you to welcome on new information organizes progressively ceaselessly the whole framework.

Purplish blue gives a hearty virtual machine facilitating arrangement that can address your issues. We should investigate how to make and work with Windows virtual machines in Azure.

Manage virtual machines with the Azure CLI

While the Azure entryway is anything but difficult to use for one-off assignments, exploring through the different sheets adds time when you need to make, change, or erase numerous things. This is the place the order line sparkles – you can give orders rapidly and proficiently, or even use contents to run dull assignments. With Azure, you have two diverse order line devices you can work with: Azure PowerShell, and the Azure CLI.

With both of these devices, you can compose contents to check the status of cloud servers, convey new designs, open ports in the firewall, or associate with a virtual machine to change a setting. Windows administrators will in general lean toward Azure PowerShell, while engineers and Linux administrators regularly utilize the Azure CLI

Keep your virtual machines updated

Imagine you are the server administrator for a regional fire department (RFD) covering dozens of stations. Your department has recently migrated their on-premises systems to the cloud; specifically, they’ve migrated existing servers to virtual machines hosted in Azure. The department has public-facing and private websites supporting email, patient records, and internal applications.

As a part of your effort to keep your infrastructure secure, you need to ensure that the virtual machines in your cloud environment are up-to-date with the latest security and critical updates.

Configure the network for your virtual machines

Assume you fill in as a system draftsman at a worldwide pharmaceutical organization that groupings qualities to make equations for restrictive and industrially classified medications. These recipes are utilized by your assembling plants far and wide. The organization needs to actualize Microsoft Azure and move some portion of its quality sequencing capacities into cloud-based virtual machines. The quality sequencing results should be accessible to a few districts far and wide. Azure handling is as of now completed in on-premises datacenters, with Azure private systems administration (VPN) used to associate the datacenters in every district.

You’ve been entrusted to survey how Microsoft Azure actualizes organizing and to distinguish whether it will give reasonable security to the exchange of information. Secure information move is required between your on-premises datacenter and Microsoft Azure, and between Microsoft Azure locales. You’ll utilize Azure Virtual Network, Azure VPN Gateway, and Azure ExpressRoute innovations.

Build Azure Resource Manager templates

Let’s say you’re a systems administrator at a growing financial services company. Analysts create financial models to help recommend the best investment options to investors.

These financial models are run on virtual machines running on Azure. A model can take between a few minutes and several hours to run. You typically create a new virtual machine to run each new model, then delete it after the analyst collects the results.

The financial services business moves quickly. You find yourself constantly deploying and deleting cloud resources. You initially created resources through the Azure portal, and now you use the Azure CLI and scripts to further automate things. Although you see certain patterns among your deployments, it still takes time to connect virtual machines to networking and storage components. At the end of each run, you need to delete only the components related to that run.

Add and size disks in Azure virtual machines

You’re the framework engineer for a law office. The firm has requested that you move basic frameworks to Azure. Activities incorporate the database of case chronicles, as of now facilitated by an on-premises SQL server and got to from a work area application. The SQL server additionally runs some custom in-house administrations to perform database upkeep. You’ve concluded that an answer dependent on Azure virtual machines (VMs) will permit you to have your SQL server and keep utilizing your custom administrations. You’ll make an Azure virtual hard circle dependent on the substance of your current on-premises server to ease relocation.

Caching and performance in Azure storage disks

You manage your corporate database infrastructure of SQL Server VMs running in Azure. Times are good, and you need to scale up your operation, while still controlling costs. Some database operations involve many reads of existing data. The regular invoice and reporting runs are write-heavy operations. You’d like to find a way to optimize your infrastructure to handle all operation types. Before investing in infrastructure improvements, you decide to explore VM disk caching options first.

Caching is a common approach to speeding up computing resources. Azure supports a range of caching technologies to help optimize data access across the Azure landscape, including specific cache options for the Azure storage and disks used by Azure Virtual Machines (VMs).

Secure your Azure virtual machine disks

Suppose you work for a warehouse company that’s transitioning to the cloud. Currently, you use a hybrid environment consisting of on-premises Windows servers, Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), and Azure Active Directory. Your company has developed a custom in-house business-to-business (B2B) infrastructure, supporting secure order management with your suppliers. Some of your suppliers use Linux servers, and you run several Linux servers in Azure to support these suppliers.

Your security policies mandate that data must be encrypted using your own encryption keys, and that your company is responsible for managing these keys.

Your admin team already uses PowerShell for on-premises server management. You’ll deploy and test many Azure VMs, and intend to use Azure Resource Manager templates to automate this process

Protect your virtual machine settings with Azure Automation State Configuration

At the point when you send a lot of virtual machines (VMs) to have a creation framework, it’s fundamental that all the VMs have a similar state. They should have similar administrations introduced. VMs ought to be designed similarly, and the product on each machine must be a similar variant. The setup of each VM can float. You can wind up with frameworks that are inclined to disappointment on account of contrary qualities in the arrangement of each machine. Sky blue Automation State Configuration tends to a significant number of the issues related with sending at scale and overseeing setup float.

Envision you’re an executive for a retail organization that utilizations Azure Virtual Machines to have its site. As of late one of your VMs was redeployed without the Windows IIS web server highlight introduced. This issue caused your site to carry on capriciously.

Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by collecting and analyzing diagnostic data

As the administrator for your band’s website hosted on Azure, you need to monitor the performance and behavior of the website. The band is on tour next month, so you’re expecting a spike in traffic. The website must be accessible by your fans during the tour.

The website is running mission-critical services, including ticket booking, venue information, and tour dates. This information is vital for the band, so you want a simple way to monitor the health of the virtual machine. You need to know when the traffic spikes so you can take the appropriate action.