Hi there. Welcome to Getting Started with Azure Virtual Machines. My name is Thomas Mitchell and I’ll be taking you through this course.

I’m in Azure instructor at cloud Academy and I have over 25 years of IT experience, several of those with cloud technologies. If you have any questions feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn or send an email to [email protected].

This course is intended for those who are interested in learning about the basics of Azure virtual machines. To get the most from this course you should have a basic understanding of Microsoft Azure and of the Azure portal.

We’re going to start things off by looking at what virtual machines are and what resources are necessary before deploying a virtual machine. We will also cover Azure VM pricing and the different virtual machine options that are available to you.

We’ll then take a look at availability sets and availability zones. You’ll also get to see a demonstration that shows you how to create an availability set, using the Azure portal.

Later on, we will dive into the deployments of both a Windows virtual machine and a Linux virtual machine. I’ll walk you through a demonstration of how to deploy each, and how to connect to each. We’ll connect to the Windows VM using RDP and we’ll connect to the Linux VM via SSH, using putty.

We’ll wrap things up by covering basic management tasks. You’ll learn how to start VMs, stop VMs, redeploy VMs, and resize VMs.

We’d love to get your feedback on this course, so please give it a rating when you’re finished. So, if you’re ready to learn about Azure virtual machines, let’s get started.