Creating an Azure VM

Before diving further into Azure VMs and their concerns with Azure Storage, let's create an Azure VM:

1. Open the Azure portal and navigate to Virtual machines, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.1: Azure VMs blade overview

2. Click on Create Virtual Machines to select an OS image for the VM.
3. For the sake of this demonstration, I'll select Windows Server 2016 Datacenter, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.2: Selecting the image that is going to be used on the VM

4. Once you click on the image, you will be asked to determine the deployment model, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.3: Selecting the VM deployment model

5. Once you specify the deployment model, a new blade will pop up, and you will be asked to fill in the fields, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.4: Filling in Azure VM basic...