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Microsoft Azure IAAS Essentials

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Microsoft Azure IAAS Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Microsoft Azure IaaS Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
Index

Redeploying virtual machines into a virtual network


The virtual machines that we have deployed so far are not part of our virtual network. How do we go about moving a virtual machine to a different network? There is no easy way to move an existing virtual machine to the network. The process involves using the VHD of the virtual machine that you want to include in the virtual network, and then creating a new virtual machine based on the VHDs of the old virtual machine.

In this section, I am going to move the GethynEllisSQL virtual machine that we created in an earlier chapter to the GRESol network:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal.

  2. Click on the Virtual Machines tab in the portal:

  3. Click on the virtual machine you want to redeploy into the new virtual network. In this case, click on the GethynEllisSQL virtual machine.

  4. Click on the Dashboard link at the top of the page:

  5. When the dashboard opens, scroll to the bottom of the page, where you will see the disk information of this virtual machine. There is an...