Setting up Microsoft Azure

Introduction

In this manual, we explain the procedure for deploying Net LineDancer (hereinafter referred to as netLD)

Virtual Appliance (VA) on a Microsoft Azure. And how to configure the VA’s initial settings.

Deployment to Microsoft Azure

1. Log into Azure and go to the “Storage Accounts” service
2. Click an existing storage account or click “Create” to create a storage account
3. In the storage account menu, click “Data Storage” -> “containers
4. Click on an existing container or create a container from “containers”
5. Click upload
6. Select the VHD file you downloaded
7. Open “Advanced settings” and change the Blob type to “Page blob”
8. Click Upload
9. Once the upload is complete, go to the “disk” service
10. Click Create
11.  Select your subscription resource group and region
12. Enter the disk name
13.  Change the source type to “Storage Blob” and select the file where you uploaded the source blob
14. Change the OS type to “linux”
15. In the size section, click change size
16. Select the “storage type” that suits your environment (SSD is recommended)
17. Select the top 4GB and click ok
18. Click Review and create
19. Check the details and click “Create”
20. Once creation is complete, click Go to Resource
21. Click Create VM
22. Enter the virtual machine name
23. Select the resources you want to allocate to the virtual machine by size
24. Go to the disk tab
25. In the Data Disk section, click “Create and connect a new disk”
26. In the Size section, click change size
27. Select the “storage type” that suits your environment (SSD is recommended)
28. Select 64GB or larger disk and add a data disk
29. Verify that the host cache is “read/write”
30. Go to the “Network” tab and configure the network settings to suit your Azure environment
31. Click Review
32. Check the details and click “Create”

This completes the deployment on Azure.