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Build out your system with virtual machines

Build out your system with virtual machines - Azure Tutorial

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Build out your system with virtual machines

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- [Instructor] Microsoft offers a wide range of Azure virtual machines, also known as VMs, giving you the ability to quickly develop, test, run application, and extend your data center to the cloud. Azure VMs can be standalone. For example, create a VM for testing some application without affecting your work computer. Another scenario, set up a VM for legacy applications where it can be configured with older versions of operating systems and applications. Azure VMs can also be a vital component of your virtual network. For example, when you need a third-party router, you could provision a VM with the appropriate software installed and then put it on the Azure VNet. A nice feature of Azure is the inclusion of pre-configured VMs in the Azure Marketplace, which means the VM is provisioned with the third-party software ready to use. When you create a VM, you choose the operating system. Obviously, we can pick a Windows operating system like Windows Server. There's a number of Linux…

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