Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Introduction to Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines – ARM

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In this task, you will provision a Virtual Machine to host an MVC4 application.

- From within your resource group blade, select the Add button.

- In the Everything resource blade, type in the search keywords ‘Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter’ and select Enter. Then select the server image as shown below.

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- In the Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter blade, select Resource Manager as the deployment model and then select the Create button.

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- In the Create virtual machine blade, select Basics and then enter the virtual machine Name (i.e. "iisvm1"), provide a user name for the User Name field and a password (this is the RDP username/password). This password needs to contain three of these - lower case characters, uppercase characters, numbers and special characters. Make sure you remember your password! Lastly, select the resource group name you previously created and the region the machine will be in and select the OK button at the bottom of the Basics blade.

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- For the virtual machine size, select the View All link and then select D2 Standard and the click the select button at the bottom of the blade.

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NOTE: Currently, Azure VMs come in two tiers. The Standard tier has VM sizes A0-A4 (Extra Small to Extra Large), and the “Memory Intensive Instances” tier has sizes A5-A11. The Basic tier will be similar machine configurations to the "Standard" A0-A4, but the new "Basic" VMs won’t include load balancing or auto-scaling options.

These new "Basic" VMs might be of interest to developers who are using Azure VMs for Dev/Test workloads and don’t need the load balancing and auto-scaling features. These basic VMs will give developers equivalent compute capabilities at a lower cost if load balancing and auto-scaling are not needed.[pic 14]

NOTE: It is suggested to use secure passwords for admin users, as Microsoft Azure virtual machines could be accessible from the Internet knowing just their DNS.

You can also read this document on the Microsoft Security website that will help you select a secure password: http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/passwords-create.aspx

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- Now you are on the MOST IMPORTANT blade, the Settings blade.

Confirm the following:

- Disk type: Standard – you could use Premium SSD if you have a DS or GS series machine and have chosen a region that supports Premium storage.

- Storage account – the previous storage account you created

- Virtual network – the previous virtual network you created

- Subnet – needs to be AppSubnet

- Public IP address – leave as is, you need a public IP address in this case to do RDP

- Network security group – leave as is, this puts a network security group around our AppSubnet

- Extensions – leave as is

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- Scroll farther down in the Settings blade and make sure Diagnostics are enabled and that the diagnostics storage account is the same as the storage account the VM will be placed in. Typically, you would use a different storage account for diagnostics, but for the lab, this is fine. Select the OK button.

We do not need an availability set since we will only have one IIS machine.

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- Select the OK button in the Summary blade. The machine creation process will begin. This will take at least 10 minutes, so proceed with the next task.

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Task 4 – Create an IaaS SQL Server Virtual Machine

In this step, you will create a new virtual machine using the Microsoft Azure Portal https://portal.azure.com that will serve as your database server.

- For the SQL Server machine, we want to use SQL Server 2014 SP1 Standard edition on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. Click on the Add button in your resource group and then in the Everything blade, type in the search words SQL Server 2014 SP1 Standard on Windows Server 2012 R2. Once you see this machine listed, select it.

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- In the SQL Server 2014 blade, select Resource Manager as the deployment model and then select the Create button.

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- In the Create virtual machine blade, select Basics and then enter the virtual machine Name (i.e. "dbvm"), provide a user name for the User Name field and a password (this is the RDP username/password). This password needs to contain three of these - lower case characters, uppercase characters, numbers and special characters. Make sure you remember your password! Lastly, select the resource group name you previously created and the region the machine will be in and select the OK button at the bottom of the Basics blade.

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- For the virtual machine size, select D2 Standard and the click the Select button at the bottom of the blade. You may need to select the View all link to see all the machine options.

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- Now you are on the