IP address types

Once the deployment of the VM is finished, we can see the device in Connected devices under the virtual network blade. An example of what the connected device blade looks like is shown in the following screenshot. Information shown here includes the device name, type of device connected, private IP address, and subnet the device is assigned to. IP address information is related to a private IP address, one that was assigned to our VM on the VNet level and is used only for internal traffic. Note that type of device is Network interface. Every VM has a network interface card (NIC) that is used to communicate with the network and one is automatically created with your VM. A virtual machine can have more than one NIC if you need to connect to multiple subnets or make sure that the VM is available, even when one NIC fails. The number of NICs depends on VM size, it...