Managing virtual machines lab

This lab will guide you through creating standalone Virtual Machines (VMs) and VMs as a scale set, as well as exploring storage for these different deployments and how both solutions can be scaled. Furthermore, you will explore how VM custom script extension can be assigned and use to automatically configuring your VMs.

Estimated time: 50 minutes.

Lab method: PowerShell, ARM templates, and the Azure portal.

Lab scenario: In this lab, you play the role of an administrator evaluating different methods for deploying VMs for scale and resiliency. You are also exploring how VMs manage storage to support your scale. You need to determine whether standalone VMs or VMs deployed as a scale set are best suited to your deployments and understand the differences between them to ascertain when to use the different deployment types. As part of your exploration task, you want to see whether there is any mechanism that can assist you in reducing the administrative...