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ONLINE LAB: Setting Up Your First Virtual Machine Scale Set

The document provides steps to create a virtual machine scale set on Azure including creating a resource group, virtual machine, image, scale set, and configuring port rules while cleaning up resources.

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ONLINE LAB: Setting Up Your First Virtual Machine Scale Set

The document provides steps to create a virtual machine scale set on Azure including creating a resource group, virtual machine, image, scale set, and configuring port rules while cleaning up resources.

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ONLINE LAB: Setting up your first

Virtual Machine Scale Set


Your Challenge
- Create a resource group named ​VMScale-Set-ResourceGroup.
- Create a new virtual machine
- Create an image
- Create a new virtual machine scale set
- Configure VM’s inbound port rules to RDP access
- Connect to a VM in the scale set
- Clean up all of your resources created after you’re done

Solution

Step 1 Sign Into Azure

Sign into Azure at ​https://portal.azure.com/


Step 2 Create a resource group

1. In the navigation list, click ​Resource groups​.


2. Click ​Add ​to open the ​Resource group​ blade.
3. For ​Resource group​ name, enter ​VMScale-Set-ResourceGroup​.
4. Select a subscription and a location.
5. Click ​Review + Create ​to proceed to the last step.
6. Click ​Create ​to create the resource group.
7. Click ​Refresh ​to refresh the list of resource groups.

The new resource group appears in your resource groups list.


Step 3 Create a new virtual machine

1. In the list of ​virtual machines,​ click create a virtual machine.


2. Choose the same subscription and location as the resource group.
3. Choose a name for the virtual machine, such as “​myvm”
4. Choose your desired Operating System, Such as ​“Windows Server 2016
Datacenter”
5. Enter your desired virtual machine size such as “​Standard DS1 v2​”.
6. Enter your desired username and password.
7. Optional to access your virtual machine using RDP, you have to enable inbound
ports for RDP.
8. Click ​Review + Create ​to proceed to the last step.
9. Click ​Create ​to create the virtual machine.
10. Wait for the deployment to complete. It should take 3 minutes 40 seconds or so.
*NEW* Step 3B Generalize the VM with Sysprep

​ ysprep w
*Note that running s ​ ith ​generalize ​on an Azure VM makes it u
​ nusable​ after. Do
not generalize a VM that you want to keep. Instead, make a copy and generalize the copy.*

1. Use RDP to connect to the new VM


2. If this was a real example, you’d want to set up any applications, code, files, etc that
you want this image to contain
3. Run ​%windir%\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe
4. Select ​OBOE ​and ​generalize
5. Select ​Shutdown after running
6. Click ​OK ​and disconnect from the VM
7. Wait for the machine to shut down
Step 4 Create an image for virtual machine

1. In the list of Resource groups, click the ​VMScale-Set-ResourceGroup ​resource


group.
2. Click on your virtual machine, overview.
3. On the top-side click ​capture​.
4. Write the name of your virtual machine.
5. Click ​Create ​to create the image virtual machine.
Step 5 Create a new virtual machine scale set

1. In the list of Resource groups, click the ​VMScale-Set-ResourceGroup ​resource


group.
2. Click ​Add​ to open the Azure Marketplace.
3. Enter “​Virtual machine scale set​” in the search box and choose ​Virtual machine
scale set​ as a result.
4. Click ​Create​.
5. Give the virtual machine scale set name ​a unique name​.
6. Choose your desired Operating System, such as ​“Windows Server 2016
Datacenter”.​ Or you can use one of your private images. Click on ​Browse all public
and private images.
7. Choose the same subscription and location as the resource group.
8. Choose the ​VMScale-Set-ResourceGroup​ from the resource group dropdown.
9. Enter your desired username and password.
10. Select load balance options such as “​Load balancer​” from Choose Load balancing
options.
11. Give the Public IP address name ​a unique name​.
12. Give the Domain name label ​a unique name​.
13. Create a new Virtual network
14. Give the new virtual network a​ name​, and a new subnet, default.
15. Click​ OK​.
16. Click ​Create ​to create the virtual machine scale set.
17. Wait for the deployment to complete. It should take 3 minutes or so.
The new virtual machine scale set appears in your resource group.
Step 6 Configure VM’s inbound port rules to RDP access

1. In the list of Resource groups, click the ​VMScale-Set-ResourceGroup ​resource


group.
2. Select your ​network security group​ vmss1nsg

3. From the left-hand menu, Choose ​Inbound security rules, ​click Add.
4. For ​Destination port ranges​ 3389, give this rule name such as Port_3389.
5. Click ​Add​.
Step 7 Connect to a VM in the scale set
1. In the list of Resource groups, click the ​VMScale-Set-ResourceGroup ​resource
group.
2. Select your Load balancer, click the ​vmss1lb​.

3. From the left-hand menu, Choose ​Inbound NAT rules.


4. Using these NAT rules you can connect to your VMs using RDP to
52.254.110.237:50001 or 52.254.110.237:50002
5. Using your credentials on the prompt screen.
Step 8 Clean up

1. In the navigation list, click ​Resource groups​.


2. Click ​VMScale-Set-ResourceGroup ​to open the resource group.
3. Click ​Delete resource group​ to delete the resource group.
4. On the​ Are you sure you want to delete​ blade, type the resource group name:
VMScale-Set-ResourceGroup​.
5. Click ​Delete ​to delete the resource group.

© 2019 Scott J Duffy and ​SoftwareArchitect.ca​, all rights reserved

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