Virtual machines in Azure

Documentation for creating and managing virtual machines in Azure.

Latest features

What's new

• Azure Boost
• Hibernation
• Flexible Virtual Machine Scale Sets Orchestration
• Community Gallery
• Azure VM Applications

Linux quickstarts

Quickstart

• Azure CLI
• Azure portal
• Azure PowerShell
• Terraform

Windows quickstarts

Quickstart

• Azure portal
• Azure PowerShell
• Terraform
• Azure CLI

Self-paced training

Training

• Create a Linux virtual machine in Azure
• Create a Windows virtual machine in Azure

Troubleshooting

How-To Guide

• Troubleshooting Guides
• Troubleshoot deployment issues
• Troubleshoot allocation failures
• Troubleshoot unexpected reboots
• Microsoft Q&A

Architecture

Architecture

• Azure Well-Architected Framework Virtual Machine considerations
• Azure Well-Architected Framework Disk Storage considerations
• Cloud adoption framework
• Azure architecture center

Resources

Overview

• Azure Quickstart templates
• Pricing
• Regional availability
• Virtual machines selector tool