Introduction to Azure Virtual Machines

Dive into a comprehensive 91-minute webinar on Azure virtual machines. Explore crucial decisions before VM creation, management options, and essential extensions and services. Learn to compile a VM creation checklist, understand various creation and management approaches, and discover additional administration services. Cover topics including VM portfolio, sizing, design and deployment methods, resource utilization, storage configuration, network settings, availability management, backup strategies, and pricing models. Participate in a live Windows VM creation demo and test your knowledge with an interactive check. Benefit from expert insights shared by Microsoft product managers Priya Shan and Rishab Verma in this Learn Live session, part of the Azure Core IaaS Study Hall series.

- Introduction
- Learning objectives
- Azure virtual machines
- Azure virtual machine portfolio
- Sizing your VM
- Ways VM can be designed and deployed
- Resources used in a VM
- Configure storage in Azure Virtual Machines
- Mapping storage to disks
- Configure Azure virtual machine network settings
- Network communication - planning your network
- Demo - Create a Windows virtual machine NVMe
- Manage the availability of your Azure VMs
- Backup your virtual machines
- Pricing models in Azure
- Knowledge check
- Summary and conclusion