Creating virtual machines using virtual machine image

Last Updated On : Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Creating virtual machines using virtual machine image

Creating virtual machines using virtual machine image requires you to specify either an existing operating system disk, or a virtual machine image. Virtual machine images have different provisioning settings depending on whether the source image is Windows or Linux-based. That being said, a signiicant portion of the coniguration options will be the same regardless of the operating system type. Within the management portal, you select the image name from the Gallery view, as Figure 1 shows.

FIGURE 1 The Gallery view for virtual machines

Using the Azure PowerShell cmdlets you can enumerate the available images using the Get-AzureVMImage cmdlet. This cmdlet will return all of the image information that is available (including some images that do not appear in the management portal). It can be quite overwhelming without applying some basic filters.

To only return images available for the Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter family, you can filter on the $_.ImageFamily property, as shown in the following example and Figure 2.

$imageFamily = “Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter”
Get-AzureVMImage | where { $_.ImageFamily -eq $imageFamily }

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FIGURE 2 Enumerating available images by image family

The Azure PowerShell cmdlets use the ImageName property to specify the image to use during creation. You can take the previous example one step further by sorting the PublishedDate in descending order, and then select the ImageName to only return the latest ImageName for the requested image family as shown in the following example and Figure 3.

$imageFamily = “Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter”
$imageName = Get-AzureVMImage |
where { $_.ImageFamily -eq $imageFamily } |
sort PublishedDate -Descending |
select -ExpandProperty ImageName -First 1

FIGURE 3 Identifying the newest image by image family

When the image name has been determined, it is passed to the New-AzureQuickVM, or the New-AzureVMConig cmdlet with the ImageName parameter

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