Windows Azure – Create Virtual Machine
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Hi,
In previous posts, we were talking about :
- How adding your account and work with it: http://pwrshell.net/?p=863 – First steps
- How handle the missing New-AzureVNetwork cmdlet in the Azure PowerShell module: http://pwrshell.net/?p=908 – Network
- How create an affinity group and optimize your Azure storage: http://pwrshell.net/?p=879 – Storage
Now it’s time to build our first virtual machine. At first let’s see chat we can deploy in our network.
Get-AzureVMImage | Select Label -Unique
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Has you see, we have a “correct” choice for our VM. Let’s start with a Windows 2012 R2 deployment.
Ok, for creating a service we have two cmdlets
- New-AzureQuickVM
- New-AzureVM
I read both descriptions, and i can’t find real difference…. so let’s use AzureQuickVM for our needs first.
man New-AzureQuickVM
NOM
New-AzureQuickVM
RÉSUMÉ
SYNTAXE
New-AzureQuickVM -ImageName <string> -Linux -LinuxUser <string> -Password <string> -ServiceName <string>
[-AffinityGroup <string>] [-AvailabilitySetName <string>] [-DnsSettings <DnsServer[]>] [-HostCaching <string>]
[-InstanceSize <string>] [-Location <string>] [-MediaLocation <string>] [-Name <string>] [-SSHKeyPairs
<SSHKeyPairList>] [-SSHPublicKeys <SSHPublicKeyList>] [-SubnetNames <string[]>] [-VNetName <string>]
[<CommonParameters>]
New-AzureQuickVM -AdminUsername <string> -ImageName <string> -Password <string> -ServiceName <string> -Windows
[-AffinityGroup <string>] [-AvailabilitySetName <string>] [-Certificates <CertificateSettingList>]
[-DisableWinRMHttps] [-DnsSettings <DnsServer[]>] [-EnableWinRMHttp] [-HostCaching <string>] [-InstanceSize
<string>] [-Location <string>] [-MediaLocation <string>] [-Name <string>] [-NoExportPrivateKey] [-NoWinRMEndpoint]
[-SubnetNames <string[]>] [-VNetName <string>] [-WaitForBoot] [-WinRMCertificate <X509Certificate2>]
[-X509Certificates <X509Certificate2[]>] [<CommonParameters>]
DESCRIPTION
The New-AzureQuickVM sets the configuration for a new virtual machine and creates the virtual machine. It can
create a new Windows Azure service, or deploy the new virtual machine into an existing service if neither
-Location or -AffinityGroup is specified.
LIENS CONNEXES
Get-AzureVM
New-AzureVMConfig
Remove-AzureVM
New-AzureVM
Like you see it’s possible to deploy a linux VM if you use -Linux switch 😉
New-AzureQuickVM -Windows -ServiceName pwrshell-lab -Name SRVTEST1 `
-ImageName (Get-AzureVMImage | ? label -like "*Windows Server 2012 Datacenter*")[0].ImageName `
-AdminUsername Benduru -Password P4ssw0rd -AffinityGroup PWRSHELL `
-InstanceSize Small
This will deploy a VM from a VHD in no time. Keep in mind that you’ll have to specify a new ServiceName each time !
Ok, we have now our VM, but i’m disapointed. No vm configuration.. the cmdlet is well named, it’s a quick configuration :). We’ll have to use more cmdlets to deploy a VM configured like we want:
- New-AzureVMConfig
- Add-AzureProvisioningConfig
- Set-AzureSubnet
How it works… First how to create a configuration object
New-AzureVMConfig -Name pwrshell-full -InstanceSize Small `
-ImageName (Get-AzureVMImage | ? label -like "*Windows Server 2012 Datacenter*")[0].ImageName
-DiskName OSDisk
Ok, once the configuration is created, let’s use the Add-AzureProvisioningConfig cmdlet to add the login/password for the Administrator and specify if it’s a Windows or Linux VM in the configuration object. With this cmdlet you can join and Active Directory and create the Server into a specific OU, you can disable RDP or WinRM. I suggest you to read the man, this is a very powerfull cmdlet. Also, we’ll take a look in a futur post about create/configure an domain and automaticly join a new VM in the domain.
Add-AzureProvisioningConfig -Windows -Password P4ssw0rd -AdminUsername Benduru
We have prepared our configuration, let’s specify the subnet of our VM.
Set-AzureSubnet France
And now, how to use it together 🙂
New-AzureVMConfig -Name pwrshell-ok -InstanceSize Small `
-ImageName (Get-AzureVMImage | ? label -like "*Windows Server 2012 Datacenter*")[0].ImageName | `
Add-AzureProvisioningConfig -Windows -Password P4ssw0rd -AdminUsername Benduru | `
Set-AzureSubnet 'France' | `
New-AzureVM -ServiceName pwrshellxlab -AffinityGroup PWRSHELL -VNetName test
We have now our VM in our network 😀
Get-AzureVM ServiceName Name Status ----------- ---- ------ pwrshellxlab pwrshell-ok ReadyRole
That’s all for today, let’s see again in a futur post to explore the manipulation of your new VM.
Regards!
