Create an Azure Virtual Machine with a dual-stack network

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07/24/2024

In this article, you create a virtual machine in Azure with the Azure portal. The virtual machine is created along with the dual-stack network as part of the procedures. You choose from the Azure portal, Azure CLI, or Azure PowerShell to complete the steps in this article. When completed, the virtual machine supports IPv4 and IPv6 communication.

Prerequisites

An Azure account with an active subscription. Create an account for free.

An Azure account with an active subscription. Create an account for free.
Azure PowerShell installed locally or Azure Cloud Shell.
Sign in to Azure PowerShell and select the subscription you want to use. For more information, see Sign in with Azure PowerShell.
Ensure your Az. Network module is 4.3.0 or later. To verify the installed module, use the command Get-InstalledModule -Name "Az.Network". If the module requires an update, use the command Update-Module -Name "Az. Network".

If you choose to install and use PowerShell locally, this article requires the Azure PowerShell module version 5.4.1 or later. Run Get-Module -ListAvailable Az to find the installed version. If you need to upgrade, see Install Azure PowerShell module. If you're running PowerShell locally, you also need to run Connect-AzAccount to create a connection with Azure.

Create a resource group and virtual network

In this section, you create a resource group and dual-stack virtual network for the virtual machine in the Azure portal.

Sign-in to the Azure portal.
In the search box at the top of the portal, enter Virtual network. Select Virtual networks in the search results.
Select + Create.

In the Basics tab of Create virtual network, enter or select the following information.

Setting	Value
Project details
Subscription	Select your subscription.
Resource group	Select Create new. In Name, enter myResourceGroup. Select OK.
Instance details
Name	Enter myVNet.
Region	Select East US 2.

Select the IP Addresses tab, or Next>Next.
Leave the default IPv4 address space of 10.0.0.0/16. If the default is absent or different, enter an IPv4 address space of 10.0.0.0/16.
Select the default subnet.
On the Edit subnet page, enter myBackendSubnet in Subnet name and select Save.
Select Add IPv6 address space from the dropdown menu.
In IPv6 address space, edit the default address space and change its value to 2404:f800:8000:122::/63.
To add an IPv6 subnet, select + Add a subnet and enter or select the following information:

Setting Value

Subnet

Subnet name Enter myBackendSubnet.

Address range Leave default of 2404:f800:8000:122::.

Size Leave the default of /64.
Select Add.
Select the Review + create.
Select Create.

Setting	Value
Subnet
Subnet name	Enter myBackendSubnet.
Address range	Leave default of 2404:f800:8000:122::.
Size	Leave the default of /64.

In this section, you create a resource group dual-stack virtual network for the virtual machine with Azure CLI.

Create a resource group with az group create named myResourceGroup in the eastus2 location.

  az group create \
    --name myResourceGroup \
    --location eastus2

Use az network vnet create to create a virtual network.

  az network vnet create \
    --resource-group myResourceGroup \
    --location eastus2 \
    --name myVNet \
    --address-prefixes 10.0.0.0/16 2404:f800:8000:122::/63 \
    --subnet-name myBackendSubnet \
    --subnet-prefixes 10.0.0.0/24 2404:f800:8000:122::/64

In this section, you create a dual-stack virtual network for the virtual machine with Azure PowerShell.

Create a resource group with New-AzResourceGroup named myResourceGroup in the eastus2 location.

$rg =@{
    Name = 'myResourceGroup'
    Location = 'eastus2'
}
New-AzResourceGroup @rg

Use New-AzVirtualNetwork and New-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig to create a virtual network.

## Create backend subnet config ##
$subnet = @{
    Name = 'myBackendSubnet'
    AddressPrefix = '10.0.0.0/24','2404:f800:8000:122::/64'
}
$subnetConfig = New-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig @subnet 

## Create the virtual network ##
$net = @{
    Name = 'myVNet'
    ResourceGroupName = 'myResourceGroup'
    Location = 'eastus2'
    AddressPrefix = '10.0.0.0/16','2404:f800:8000:122::/63'
    Subnet = $subnetConfig
}
New-AzVirtualNetwork @net

Create public IP addresses

You create two public IP addresses in this section, IPv4 and IPv6 in the Azure portal.

Create IPv4 public IP address

In the search box at the top of the portal, enter Public IP address. Select Public IP addresses in the search results.
Select + Create.

Enter or select the following information in Create public IP address.

Setting	Value
Project details
Subscription	Select your subscription.
Resource group	Select myResourceGroup.
Location	Select East US 2.
Availability zone	Select Zone redundant.
Instance details
Name	Enter myPublicIP-IPv4.
IP version	Select IPv4.
SKU	Leave the default of Standard.
Tier	Leave the default of Regional.
IP address assignment
Routing preference	Leave the default of Microsoft network.
Idle timeout (minutes)	Leave the default of 4.
DNS name label	Enter myPublicIP-IPv4.

Select Review + create then Create.

Create IPv6 public IP address

In the search box at the top of the portal, enter Public IP address. Select Public IP addresses in the search results.
Select + Create.

Enter or select the following information in Create public IP address.

Setting	Value
Project details
Subscription	Select your subscription.
Resource group	Select myResourceGroup.
Location	Select East US 2.
Availability zone	Select Zone redundant.
Instance details
Name	Enter myPublicIP-IPv6.
IP version	Select IPv6.
SKU	Leave the default of Standard.
Tier	Leave the default of Regional.
IP address assignment
DNS name label	Enter myPublicIP-IPv6.

Select Review + create then Create.

You create two public IP addresses in this section, IPv4 and IPv6 with Azure CLI.

Use az network public-ip create to create the public IP addresses.

  az network public-ip create \
    --resource-group myResourceGroup \
    --name myPublicIP-Ipv4 \
    --sku Standard \
    --version IPv4 \
    --zone 1 2 3

  az network public-ip create \
    --resource-group myResourceGroup \
    --name myPublicIP-Ipv6 \
    --sku Standard \
    --version IPv6 \
    --zone 1 2 3

You create two public IP addresses in this section, IPv4 and IPv6.

Use New-AzPublicIpAddress to create the public IP addresses.

$ip4 = @{
    Name = 'myPublicIP-IPv4'
    ResourceGroupName = 'myResourceGroup'
    Location = 'eastus2'
    Sku = 'Standard'
    AllocationMethod = 'Static'
    IpAddressVersion = 'IPv4'
    Zone = 1,2,3
}
New-AzPublicIpAddress @ip4

$ip6 = @{
    Name = 'myPublicIP-IPv6'
    ResourceGroupName = 'myResourceGroup'
    Location = 'eastus2'
    Sku = 'Standard'
    AllocationMethod = 'Static'
    IpAddressVersion = 'IPv6'
    Zone = 1,2,3
}
New-AzPublicIpAddress @ip6

Create virtual machine

In this section, you create the virtual machine and its supporting resources.

Create virtual machine

In the search box at the top of the portal, enter Virtual machine. Select Virtual machines in the search results.
Select + Create then Azure virtual machine.

In the Basics tab, enter or select the following information.

Setting	Value
Project details
Subscription	Select your subscription.
Resource group	Select myResourceGroup.
Instance details
Virtual machine name	Enter myVM.
Region	Select East US 2.
Availability options	Select No infrastructure redundancy required.
Security type	Select Standard.
Image	Select Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS - Gen2.
Size	Select the default size.
Administrator account
Authentication type	Select SSH public key.
Username	Enter a username.
SSH public key source	Select Generate new key pair.
Key pair name	Enter mySSHKey.
Inbound port rules
Public inbound ports	Select None.

Select the Networking tab, or Next: Disks then Next: Networking.

Enter or select the following information in the Networking tab.

Setting	Value
Network interface
Virtual network	Select myVNet.
Subnet	Select myBackendSubnet (10.1.0.0/24,2404:f800:8000:122:/64).
Public IP	Select myPublicIP-IPv4.
NIC network security group	Select Advanced.
Configure network security group	Select Create new. Enter myNSG in Name. Select OK.

Select Review + create.
Select Create.
Generate new key pair appears. Select Download private key and create resource.
The private key downloads to your local computer. Copy the private key to a directory on your computer. In the following example, it's ~/.ssh.

Configure network interface

A network interface is automatically created and attached to the chosen virtual network during creation. In this section, you add the IPv6 configuration to the existing network interface.

In the search box at the top of the portal, enter Virtual machine. Select Virtual machines in the search results.
Select myVM or your existing virtual machine name.
Select Networking in Settings.
The name of your default network interface will be myvmxx, with xx a random number. In this example, it's myvm281. Select myvm281 next to Network Interface:.
In the properties of the network interface, select IP configurations in Settings.
In IP configurations, select + Add.

In Add IP configuration, enter or select the following information.

Setting	Value
Name	Enter Ipv6config.
IP version	Select IPv6.
Private IP address settings
Allocation	Leave the default of Dynamic.
Public IP address	Select Associate.
Public IP address	Select myPublicIP-IPv6.

Select OK.

In this section, you create the virtual machine and its supporting resources.

Create network interface

You use az network nic create to create the network interface for the virtual machine. The public IP addresses and the NSG created previously are associated with the NIC. The network interface is attached to the virtual network you created previously.

  az network nic create \
    --resource-group myResourceGroup \
    --name myNIC1 \
    --vnet-name myVNet \
    --subnet myBackEndSubnet \
    --network-security-group myNSG \
    --public-ip-address myPublicIP-IPv4

Create IPv6 IP configuration

Use az network nic ip-config create to create the IPv6 configuration for the NIC.

  az network nic ip-config create \
    --resource-group myResourceGroup \
    --name myIPv6config \
    --nic-name myNIC1 \
    --private-ip-address-version IPv6 \
    --vnet-name myVNet \
    --subnet myBackendSubnet \
    --public-ip-address myPublicIP-IPv6

Create virtual machine

Use az vm create to create the virtual machine.

  az vm create \
    --resource-group myResourceGroup \
    --name myVM \
    --nics myNIC1 \
    --image Ubuntu2204 \
    --admin-username azureuser \
    --authentication-type ssh \
    --generate-ssh-keys

In this section, you create the virtual machine and its supporting resources.

Create network interface

You use New-AzNetworkInterface and New-AzNetworkInterfaceIpConfig to create the network interface for the virtual machine. The public IP addresses and the NSG created previously are associated with the NIC. The network interface is attached to the virtual network you created previously.

## Place the virtual network into a variable. ##
$net = @{
    Name = 'myVNet'
    ResourceGroupName = 'myResourceGroup'
}
$vnet = Get-AzVirtualNetwork @net

## Place the network security group into a variable. ##
$ns = @{
    Name = 'myNSG'
    ResourceGroupName = 'myResourceGroup'
}
$nsg = Get-AzNetworkSecurityGroup @ns

## Place the IPv4 public IP address into a variable. ##
$pub4 = @{
    Name = 'myPublicIP-IPv4'
    ResourceGroupName = 'myResourceGroup'
}
$pubIPv4 = Get-AzPublicIPAddress @pub4

## Place the IPv6 public IP address into a variable. ##
$pub6 = @{
    Name = 'myPublicIP-IPv6'
    ResourceGroupName = 'myResourceGroup'
}
$pubIPv6 = Get-AzPublicIPAddress @pub6

## Create IPv4 configuration for NIC. ##
$IP4c = @{
    Name = 'ipconfig-ipv4'
    Subnet = $vnet.Subnets[0]
    PrivateIpAddressVersion = 'IPv4'
    PublicIPAddress = $pubIPv4
}
$IPv4Config = New-AzNetworkInterfaceIpConfig @IP4c

## Create IPv6 configuration for NIC. ##
$IP6c = @{
    Name = 'ipconfig-ipv6'
    Subnet = $vnet.Subnets[0]
    PrivateIpAddressVersion = 'IPv6'
    PublicIPAddress = $pubIPv6
}
$IPv6Config = New-AzNetworkInterfaceIpConfig @IP6c

## Command to create network interface for VM ##
$nic = @{
    Name = 'myNIC1'
    ResourceGroupName = 'myResourceGroup'
    Location = 'eastus2'
    NetworkSecurityGroup = $nsg
    IpConfiguration = $IPv4Config,$IPv6Config   
}
New-AzNetworkInterface @nic

Create virtual machine

Use the following commands to create the virtual machine:

$cred = Get-Credential

## Place network interface into a variable. ##
$nic = @{
    Name = 'myNIC1'
    ResourceGroupName = 'myResourceGroup'
}
$nicVM = Get-AzNetworkInterface @nic

## Create a virtual machine configuration for VMs ##
$vmsz = @{
    VMName = 'myVM'
    VMSize = 'Standard_DS1_v2'  
}
$vmos = @{
    ComputerName = 'myVM'
    Credential = $cred
}
$vmimage = @{
    PublisherName = 'Debian'
    Offer = 'debian-11'
    Skus = '11'
    Version = 'latest'    
}
$vmConfig = New-AzVMConfig @vmsz `
      | Set-AzVMOperatingSystem @vmos -Linux `
      | Set-AzVMSourceImage @vmimage `
      | Add-AzVMNetworkInterface -Id $nicVM.Id

## Create the virtual machine for VMs ##
$vm = @{
    ResourceGroupName = 'myResourceGroup'
    Location = 'eastus2'
    VM = $vmConfig
    SshKeyName = 'mySSHKey'
    }
New-AzVM @vm -GenerateSshKey

Test SSH connection

You connect to the virtual machine with SSH to test the IPv4 public IP address.

In the search box at the top of the portal, enter Public IP address. Select Public IP addresses in the search results.
Select myPublicIP-IPv4.
The public IPv4 address is in the Overview in IP address. In this example it's, 20.22.46.19.
Open an SSH connection to the virtual machine by using the following command. Replace the IP address with the IP address of your virtual machine. Replace azureuser with the username you chose during virtual machine creation. The -i is the path to the private key that you downloaded earlier. In this example, it's ~/.ssh/mySSHKey.pem.
```
ssh -i ~/.ssh/mySSHkey.pem azureuser@20.22.46.19
```

Use az network public-ip show to display the IP addresses of the virtual machine.

  az network public-ip show \
    --resource-group myResourceGroup \
    --name myPublicIP-IPv4 \
    --query ipAddress \
    --output tsv

user@Azure:~$ az network public-ip show \
>     --resource-group myResourceGroup \
>     --name myPublicIP-IPv4 \
>     --query ipAddress \
>     --output tsv
20.119.201.208

  az network public-ip show \
    --resource-group myResourceGroup \
    --name myPublicIP-IPv6 \
    --query ipAddress \
    --output tsv

user@Azure:~$ az network public-ip show \
>     --resource-group myResourceGroup \
>     --name myPublicIP-IPv6 \
>     --query ipAddress \
>     --output tsv
2603:1030:408:6::9d

Open an SSH connection to the virtual machine by using the following command. Replace the IP address with the IP address of your virtual machine.

  ssh azureuser@20.119.201.208

Use Get-AzPublicIpAddress to display the IP addresses of the virtual machine.

$ip4 = @{
    ResourceGroupName = 'myResourceGroup'
    Name = 'myPublicIP-IPv4'
}  
Get-AzPublicIPAddress @ip4 | select IpAddress

PS /home/user> Get-AzPublicIPAddress @ip4 | select IpAddress

IpAddress
---------
20.72.115.187

$ip6 = @{
    ResourceGroupName = 'myResourceGroup'
    Name = 'myPublicIP-IPv6'
}  
Get-AzPublicIPAddress @ip6 | select IpAddress

PS /home/user> Get-AzPublicIPAddress @ip6 | select IpAddress

IpAddress
---------
2603:1030:403:3::1ca

Open an SSH connection to the virtual machine by using the following command. Replace the IP address with the IP address of your virtual machine.

ssh azureuser@20.72.115.187

Clean up resources

When your finished with the resources created in this article, delete the resource group and all of the resources it contains:

In the search box at the top of the portal, enter myResourceGroup. Select myResourceGroup in the search results in Resource groups.
Select Delete resource group.
Enter myResourceGroup for TYPE THE RESOURCE GROUP NAME and select Delete.

When no longer needed, use the az group delete command to remove the resource group, virtual machine, and all related resources.

  az group delete \
    --name myResourceGroup

When no longer needed, use the Remove-AzResourceGroup command to remove the resource group, virtual machine, and all related resources.

Remove-AzResourceGroup -Name 'myResourceGroup'

Next steps

In this article, you learned how to create an Azure Virtual machine with a dual-stack network.

For more information about IPv6 and IP addresses in Azure, see:

Zdieľať cez

Create an Azure Virtual Machine with a dual-stack network

Prerequisites

Create a resource group and virtual network

Create public IP addresses

Create IPv4 public IP address

Create IPv6 public IP address

Create virtual machine

Create virtual machine

Configure network interface

Create network interface

Create IPv6 IP configuration

Create virtual machine

Create network interface

Create virtual machine

Test SSH connection

Clean up resources

Next steps

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