How To Set Up A VM With A Student Account?

Hall, Richard P 11

I am new to Azure. I have a Student Account.
I am having no success setting up a VM with a dbms.

Following the prompts for what I thought was a "minimal configuration" had a cost of $348 a month.

Is there documentation for a true beginner?

RIck

Prrudram-MSFT 23,211 Reputation points

2022-03-22T09:10:13.383+00:00

Hello @Hall, Richard P ,

Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to answer your question.

Please look at this guide that has considerations for Azure Virtual Machines DBMS deployment dbms_guide_general
You can consider the most comfortable and easiest DBMS workload for deployment for example, Microsoft SQL. If this is for learning or testing you can plan to delpoy a smaller size VM with SQL

Please find the detailed documentation on SQL workloads on azure here virtual-machines
For SAP :dbms_guide_general

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Hall, Richard P 11 Reputation points

2022-03-26T14:54:43.28+00:00

Thank you for the response.
Regretfully, as an "Answer", it was not helpful.

The Azure page you pointed to has changed, radically.
I got to [https://portal.azure.com/#create/hub]. I was able, in a way, to follow the directions you gave me.

Home > Create a Resource > Marketplace > Create a Virtual Machine

But when I fill the form, there is an issue with the [Size] field. There are no sizes to select.
Even better, when attempting to set up a support ticket, there was no choice for "no sizes to select".

I am of the opinion that such a construct is not allowed for Student Subscriptions.
Andreas Baumgarten 104K Reputation points MVP

2022-03-26T15:19:28.013+00:00

Hi @Prrudram-MSFT ,

i addition to HallRichardP-1395: It looks like a couple of people have the same issue (the Size field is empty to select a VM SKU) since a few days. If you take a look on the tag azure-virtual-machine you will find similar threats as well.
Maybe the issue is not related to one person/account.

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(If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote and/or accept as answer, thank you)

Regards
Andreas Baumgarten
Hall, Richard P 11 Reputation points

2022-03-26T15:31:34.34+00:00

Thank you for the response.
Hall, Richard P 11 Reputation points

2022-03-26T15:41:55.297+00:00

What I need is a step-by-step guide that matches the current Azure site.
Having gone through the process many times, the current pages do nothing to help a new Azure user with a student account.

Trying to set up a Redhat server with SQL Server fails because when directed to select a "Size", there a no sizes to pick from.
Prrudram-MSFT 23,211 Reputation points

2022-03-28T15:38:32.713+00:00

@Hall, Richard P

There might be some capacity issues in the data center that will not allow you to create few VMs. The option is to change the region and give it a try. With the free account, I can create a VM in West Europe. Can you please give it a try by changing the region?
Hall, Richard P 11 Reputation points

2022-03-29T05:01:40.987+00:00

I have tried East, East 2, and Central. The list of sizes is always empty.

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