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Managing Virtual Machines in Azure: AZ-104 Lab 08 Review
Introduction As part of my journey to becoming an Azure Administrator, I recently completed Lab 08 - Manage Virtual Machines from the AZ-104 certification series. This lab was designed to teach how to create, configure, and scale both individual virtual machines (VMs) and virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) in Azure. Through this hands-on experience, I gained valuable skills in VM management, including manual scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, and autoscaling with VMSS. In this blog post, I’ll share the key takeaways, step-by-step breakdown, and lessons I learned from this lab. Lab Overview In this lab, I learned to deploy, configure, and scale Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) both manually and automatically using Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS). The main tasks included deploying VMs across availability zones for high availability, resizing VMs, adding disks, and scaling with VMSS to optimize performance and reduce administrative overhead. Skills Practiced: ✅ Deploying VMs across availability zones for high availability ✅ Managing compute and storage scaling for individual VMs ✅ Creating and configuring Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) ✅ Implementing autoscaling for VMSS ✅ Deploying and managing VMs using PowerShell and Azure CLI Task 1: Deploy Zone-Resilient Azure Virtual Machines by Using the Azure Portal The first task involved deploying two VMs into different availability zones. This ensures high availability (HA) with a 99.99% uptime SLA for the VMs. Here’s what I did: 1️⃣ Signed into the Azure portal – Azure Portal. 2️⃣ Deployed two virtual machines (az104-vm1 and az104-vm2) into East US, with each VM located in a different availability zone (Zone 1 and Zone 2). 3️⃣ Configured the VMs with a Windows Server 2019 image, Standard D2s v3 size, and set a secure password. 4️⃣ Ensured that the Availability Zone option was enabled, deploying the VMs into separate zones to increase fault tolerance.
Introduction
As part of my journey to becoming an Azure Administrator, I recently completed Lab 08 - Manage Virtual Machines from the AZ-104 certification series. This lab was designed to teach how to create, configure, and scale both individual virtual machines (VMs) and virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) in Azure.
Through this hands-on experience, I gained valuable skills in VM management, including manual scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, and autoscaling with VMSS. In this blog post, I’ll share the key takeaways, step-by-step breakdown, and lessons I learned from this lab.
Lab Overview
In this lab, I learned to deploy, configure, and scale Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) both manually and automatically using Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS). The main tasks included deploying VMs across availability zones for high availability, resizing VMs, adding disks, and scaling with VMSS to optimize performance and reduce administrative overhead.
Skills Practiced:
✅ Deploying VMs across availability zones for high availability
✅ Managing compute and storage scaling for individual VMs
✅ Creating and configuring Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS)
✅ Implementing autoscaling for VMSS
✅ Deploying and managing VMs using PowerShell and Azure CLI
Task 1: Deploy Zone-Resilient Azure Virtual Machines by Using the Azure Portal
The first task involved deploying two VMs into different availability zones. This ensures high availability (HA) with a 99.99% uptime SLA for the VMs. Here’s what I did:
1️⃣ Signed into the Azure portal – Azure Portal.
2️⃣ Deployed two virtual machines (az104-vm1 and az104-vm2) into East US, with each VM located in a different availability zone (Zone 1 and Zone 2).
3️⃣ Configured the VMs with a Windows Server 2019 image, Standard D2s v3 size, and set a secure password.
4️⃣ Ensured that the Availability Zone option was enabled, deploying the VMs into separate zones to increase fault tolerance.
