shlogg · Early preview
1Suleyman @1suleyman

Azure VM Management With AZ-104 Certification Series

Deployed VMs across availability zones for HA, managed compute & storage scaling, created/configured VMSS with autoscaling, and used PowerShell/CLI to deploy/manage VMs.

Introduction

As part of my journey to becoming an Azure Administrator, I recently completed Lab 08 - Manage Virtual Machines from the AZ-104 certification series. This lab was designed to teach how to create, configure, and scale both individual virtual machines (VMs) and virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) in Azure. 
Through this hands-on experience, I gained valuable skills in VM management, including manual scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, and autoscaling with VMSS. In this blog post, I’ll share the key takeaways, step-by-step breakdown, and lessons I learned from this lab....