In this part of the chapter, we will deploy a VM by using the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) portal. During the following guide, we will configure storage, network, and backup for the VM. Normally, you would prefer to create this before deploying a VM:
- First, you open the side bar and select Virtual machines, as shown in the following screenshot:
- In the new window, click on the +Add button:
- Afterwards, you need to select the subscription and resource group or create a new one. Then, you scroll down, select an VM name, and specify the Azure region to deploy to, as shown in the following screenshot:
- In the next step, you select the availability option. You can choose between availability set, zone, or nothing. We will choose No Infrastructure redundancy required in this step, shown as follows:
- Select the image for the OS and the size of the VM:
- By changing the filters, you can see the other VM sizes too:
- After configuring the virtual...