An Azure VM is essentially a Hyper-V VM that you run within Azure. There are some differences between Hyper-V VMs you create within Server 2016 (or Windows 10) and Azure VMs but they are minor. The ARM based cmdlets you use are a little different in style to Hyper-V cmdlets which may mean a bit of a learning curve.

At the time of writing, you can only use the VHD format for your virtual hard disks in an Azure VM although like many things in Azure this may change at some point in the future. Should you wish to move a Hyper-V VM into Azure that uses a VHDX hard disk file, you would need to convert the disk type to be a VHD.

In this recipe, you first create a virtual network. Your VM can have both a public IP address and a private VLAN based IP address. At the end of this recipe, you access the VM via the VM's public IP address. In a later recipe, you create a VPN and connect to the VM using the VPN addresses. You also create a NIC and give it a public...