Windows Admin Center: Create a VM

[MUSIC]. >> Hey folks, Ned Pyle here again. Today, I’m going to talk about a option that we released in October for the Windows Admin Center. It is now the ability for you to generate on the fly Azure VMs, all within Windows Admin Center, never leaving to go to the Azure portal in line with your workflow. It works within several workloads, but it also just works when you’re setting up a connection in Windows Admin Center. We’re going to do a quick demo right now to show you what I mean. We have these new ad option, which I’ve just clicked.

00:39 - You’ll notice now when I’m on the connection page. I’m actually able to not just add VMs, servers, clustered such, I could actually create Azure VMs right now on the fly. So I click “Create New”, and I will start making a VM in Azure without leaving Windows Admin Center. So you see this wizard open up, you see my subscription information, you see the resource groups that are all being drawn using an Azure rest APIs downloaded into my Windows Admin Center. I start providing a name and a region, picking out which operating system images I want to be able to deploy. I start putting in some credentials.

01:15 - I’m obviously not Jeff Woolsey, I’m Ned, but I’m using this demo here for convenience sake. I can size these VMs. I had filters, I can sort. So right now it’s just showing all the available VMs for Server 2019, I can sort on these columns. So it’s just a normal, convenient user experience. I’m being able to pick out and size-up VM, which in this case we don’t have any real criteria from the workload, I’m just creating a VM out of nowhere. If I was using Storage Migration Service, it would size it to match my source VM and the same first-order like other features inside of Windows Admin Center. I’m on the disk piece now.

01:57 - I can add, manage disks for storage, specify their size, their performance type. If this was a different type of workload, not just a regular vanilla VM workload, it would actually be allowing me to specify the file system or automatically assign to the file system based on the workload, say if you were doing on migration, for example. Now, I can choose to join my on-premises domain as long as I have access to it. In this case, I’m not going to. Ordinarily, I probably would as the small servers are joined to AD domains and then I have access to whatever the network information is specified for this subscription inside of Azure. I can go and review all of this, take a look and see what I’ve done, make sure it looks right.

02:43 - If there is a chance to go back and change my mind. By clicking Okay, by clicking the Create there, I’m actually starting the VM generation process in Azure. You can watch it in the Azure portal, you can watch it here. You can close this browser and go to Launch, this is all fired off into Azure, so just keeping track of it at this point. Let’s go take a look inside of Azure and see what’s happening.

03:04 - I’m going to login here to My Subscription and take a look at my Azure deployment here underway. You can see that same server is deploying here. It’s just in progress. So even though I still have the access to all of the Azure portal, I have the convenience of being inside Windows Admin Center, perhaps in the middle of doing something without having to multitask and change directions. So that was deploying an Azure VM from within Windows Admin Center. You notice I never left to go anywhere else, I stayed right there inside of Windows Admin Center, getting myself brand new Azure Compute Goodness.

03:46 - For more information, I want you to visit this URL and if you’re not seeing it in your Windows Admin Center, make sure you download the latest one and it will be there. Thanks. .