A STEP BY STEP GUIDE ON HOW TO CREATE A VIRTUAL MACHINE ON MICROSOFT AZURE

As a starter in Azure or Cloud computing, Creating a Virtual Machine(also known as VM) is one of the fundamental knowledge you need to know.
What then is a Virtual Machine(VM)?
A virtual machine (VM) is like a computer within a computer. It’s a software based emulation of a physical machine, allowing you to run an entire operating system and its applications as if it were a standalone device, all while it’s actually hosted on a physical computer called the "host." The VM itself is the "guest".
In creating a virtual machine you need to have an account with Microsoft Azure, if you don't have you need to create one and subscribe in or order to have access to the services.

STEPS IN CREATING VIRTUAL MACHINE

STEP 1: Search for Virtual Machine on the dashboard.

STEP 2: click on the + create and select the virtual machine hosted by Azure.

STEP 3: Naming of the resource group, leave the region on the default, set the availability as no insfrastructure redundancy required.

STEP 4: Next is Image, set this to Windows server 2019 Datacenter-Gen1

Size, pick 'Standard_DS1_v2-1 vcpu,3.5Gib memory from the chart[note if you didn't see this, make use of the closest size in the standard section]

STEP 5: On the administrator account, select the VM username and password. Make use of the username and password that will be accepted/ meets requirement and you can easily remember.

STEP 6: Select inbound Ports, for this vm i will choose RDP(3389)

All done at this point, Click on Review + create. Once this has been validated and every other settings is ok, validation would be passed. Click on create and wait for your deployment to be completed.

STEP 7: You will be ask to go to resource group. click on the button "Go to Resource"

STEP 8: Click on the connect button and select connect. To Connect with RDP: IP address used Public IP address (20.171.65.230). Port number is set to 3389 and click download RDP file. Enter the login credentials that you created within the Azure Portal (Your username and password you created ).

Hope these steps shown are simple and easy to understand.

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