How Azure Works

• Inside Azure Datacenters, Servers are organized in racks
• Each Rack has a switch to enable the network connectivity to the physical server
• There are other servers which are used to run Cloud Consumer (User) Workloads
• Each Rack has a special Server called a Fabric Controller. This is responsible for running the workload on the physical server in a Rack
• An Orchestrator is responsible for allocating work to Fabric Controllers.
• When user operates Azure, the valid requests reach Orchestrator via API and then they get fulfilled
• Every Physical Server on Azure will have a Hypervisor

Virtualization in Azure

• Azure has not specified the exact flavor of Hypervisor which they use inside Azure.
• Microsoft claims to have a Hypervisor which is Hyper-V with some modifications.

Azure Account Creation

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• Watch Here for Simple Azure VM Creation

Azure Portal

• URL
• Free Services From Azure

VMs in Azure

• Options for Creating a VM in Azure
  • Operating System:
  • Machine Size
  • Username and Password (Credentials)
  • Which ports of your vm will be open
  • Location (Region)
  • Resource Group