This article outlines the process of creating your virtual machine on Azure.
- Login to your Azure portal.
- Navigate to Virtual Machines
- Select "+Add".
- Fill in the required information on the next steps.
Note: If you do not see any subscription in the project details, see: adding Azure subcriptions. - Select your desired image (operating system).
- Choose your VM Size.
*Start with Small i.e. B2s (2 vcpu and 4 GiB RAM). This can be changed later on depending on your simulation's requirements. - Enter a username and corresponding password, that will have administrator privileges on this VM.
- Use the same "Resource group" and "Region" as the other resource you have created in the Azure cloud services configuration page.
- Go to "Next: Networking", select Advanced for your "NIC network security group", then select the network security group you created on the "Configure network security group" field.
- Go to "Next: Advanced", on the Proximity placement group option, select the proximity group you created.
- Continue with next steps. i.e. create your system disk, select your network security group, etc.
- "Review +create" your settings and "Create" to deploy the VM.
See Azure's Quickstart guides for details on creating Linux or Windows virtual machines.