AZ-104 – Microsoft Azure Administrator : Deploy and manage Azure Compute resources – Configure VMs

by Samuel Mitchell, posted in Uncategorized

This article will show the configuration commands required to complete the objectives on the exam guide for the AZ-104. The article information is updated as I complete the respective tasks.

Configure VMs

  • Configure Azure Disk Encryption

Azure CLI

# Create a Key Vault

az keyvault create –name myKV –resource-group myRG –location eastus –enabled-for-disk-encryption

# Update Key Vault to allow the storing of disk encryption key

az keyvault update -n myKV -g myRG –enabled-for-disk-encryption

#Encrypt an existing VM disk

az vm encryption enable -n myVM -g myRG –disk-encryption-keyvault myKV –volume-type all

# View the status of Disk encryption

az vm encryption show -n myVM -g myRG

#Decrypt the VM disk

az vm encryption disable -n myVM -g myRG

PowerShell

# Create Azure KeyVault

New-AzKeyVault -VaultName myKV `

-ResourceGroupName myRG `

-Location EastUS `

-EnabledForDiskEncryption

# Change the KeyVault Policy Access

Set-AzKeyVaultAccessPolicy -VaultName myKV -ResourceGroupName myRG `

-EnabledForDiskEncryption

# Encrypt the VM disk

Set-AzVMDiskEncrytpionExtension -VMname myVM -ResourceGroupName myRG `

-VolumeType [All|OS|Data] -DiskEncryptionKeyVaultID myKV.id `

-DiskEncryptionKeyVaultUri myKV.uri -SkipVMBackup

#View the Disk Encryption Status

Get-AzVMDiskEncryptionStatus -VMname myVM -ResourceGroupName myRG

#Decrypt VM disk

Disable-AzVMDiskEncryption -VMname myVM -ResourceGroupName myRG

  • Manage VM sizes

Azure CLI

# Check the VM current size

az vm show –name myVM –resource-group myRG –query hardwareProfile.vmSize

#List the available size to the VM

az vm list-vm-resize-options –resource-group myRG –name myVM

#Resize the VM to the size of choice from the list generate from command

az vm resize –name myVM –resource-group myRG –size Standard_B1s

#Deallocate VM if the size desired is not listed to be made available

az vm deallocate –name myVM –resource-group myRG

az vm stop –name myVM –resource-group myRG

PowerShell

Get-AzVmSize -VMName myVM -ResourceGroupName myRG

$vm = Get-AzVM -VMName myVM -ResourceGroupName myRG

$vm.HardwareProfile.VmSize = “Standard_B1ls”

Update-AzVM -VM $vm -ResourceGroupName myRG

#Deallocate VM

Stop-AzVM -Name myVM -ResourceGroupName myRG

#Only Stop VM but does not deallocate it

Stop-AzVM -Name myVM -ResourceGroupName myRG -StayProvisioned

  • Add Data Disks

Azure CLI

# Create the disk and attached it to the VM in one command

az vm disk attached -g myRG -vm-name myVM –name myDisk –new –size-gb 32 \

–sku Standard_LRS

PowerShell

# Set the data disk configuration

$diskConfig = new-AzDiskConfig -SkuName “Standard_LRS” -Location “EastUS” `

-CreateOption Empty -DiskSizeGB 32

# Create the data disk

$dataDisk1 = new-AzDisk -DiskName myDisk -Disk $diskConfig -ResourceGroupName myRG

# Get the Virtual Machine information

$vm = Get-AzVM -Name myVM -ResourceGroup myRG

# Add the Disk information to VM

$vm = Add-AzVMDataDisk -VM $vm -Name myDisk -CreateOption Attach `

-ManagedDiskId #dataDisk1.Id -Lun 1

#Update the VM with the data disk

Update-AzVM -VM $vm -ResourceGroupName myRG

# The second phase is to intialize the disk within the VM.

  • Redeploy VMs

Azure CLI

# Redeploy a virtual machine

az vm redeploy –name myVM –resource-group myRG

PowerShell

# Redeploy a virtual machine

Set-AzVM -Redeploy -ResourceGroupName “myRG” -Name “myVM”

  • Move Resource to another Resource group

Azure CLI

# Comment

az resource move –destinationresourcegroupname myRG2 –ids myVMid myStorageid

PowerShell

# Move resource to another resource group

$webapp = Get-AzResource -ResourceGroupName myRG -ResourceName mySite

$vm = Get-AzResource -ResourceGroupName myRG -ResourceName myVM

Move-AzResource -DestinationResourceGroupName myRG2 -ResourceId $webapp.ResourceId, $vm.ResourceId

  • Configure Networking

Azure CLI

# Comment

az noun verb –name variable

PowerShell

# Comment

Verb-Noun -Parameters variable

  • Configure High Availability

Azure CLI

# Comment

az noun verb –name variable

PowerShell

# Comment

Verb-Noun -Parameters variable

  • Deploy and configure scale sets

Azure CLI

# Comment

az noun verb –name variable

PowerShell

# Comment

Verb-Noun -Parameters variable

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