Creating & Managing Azure VMs with the AZ PowerShell Module

Connect to the virtual machine by using PowerShell to fetch the public IP from the resource group, then start a remote desktop session with the vm admin account.

Prepare a source vm for imaging by generalizing it with CIS prep, deallocating, and marking it generalized before creating an image in Azure using PowerShell.

Create an image from VM 0 1 using AC image config and AC image commands, generating the image config in East US and saving the image to your resource group.

Create an azure vm from the vm 01 image using az vm, deploying in east us to vnet vignette 0 1 subnet 0 1 with a network security group and public IP.

Learn to create a data disk with Azure PowerShell, attach it to a VM, initialize it in the OS, and use Get-AzVM, Add-AzVMDataDisk, and Update-AzVM to update the virtual machine.

Attach an existing data disk to the Azure VM by updating the VM with add-az vm data disk and disk id, then run update-az vm.

Learn how to prepare a raw data disk in the VM's OS using PowerShell by initializing, partitioning, formatting as NTFS, and assigning a drive letter labeled data disk.

Prepare to resize by listing available VM sizes on the hosting hardware cluster, note whether deallocation is needed, and set PowerShell variables to view options with Get-AzVMSize.

Resize an Azure VM with PowerShell by retrieving Get-AzVM, setting the hardware profile to DS2-V2, and updating via Update-AzVM, noting premium LRS requires S-series.

Learn Azure VM management with PowerShell: start and stop a VM using the A-Z VM and AC VM commands, remove the VM, virtual Nix disks, IP addresses, and resource group.

Learn to start and stop a VM using the AZ PowerShell module, by specifying the resource group name and VM name, and verify the VM transitions to running or deallocated.

Delete the remaining resources tied to the virtual machine by removing the network interface, os disk, data disk, and public ip address using remove-az-network-interface, remove-az-disk, and remove-az-public-ip-address commands.

Delete a resource group with Remove-AzResourceGroup in Azure PowerShell, which removes all resources it contains. Exercise caution in production; you can pipe Get-AzResourceGroup to Remove-AzResourceGroup for bulk deletions.

Initialize the configuration to create a new Azure VM from snapshot by building a VM config, setting name and size, and attaching the OS disk and network interface for New-AzVM.

Load the variables, initialize the vm configuration, and create an azure vm from the snapshot using the New-AzVM command with the resource group and location. Confirm deployment and public IP.