Patrick J. Wasson

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After creating a VM in Azure and establishing a remote session into the VM, one of the steps in the Tech Challenge 1 is to change the network settings (primary and secondary DNS server settings) on the VM. This will most likely drop the current Remote Desktop session and you may not be able to remote back in. Initially, I had to delete the VM and recreate it again. Later, I found out that one can “redeploy” the VM instead of deleting and re-creating it.

Thank you for adding to our IT Knowledge Base Rommel. This is a good find, and is absolutely something I hope everyone will take a look at. A great advantage to VM’s is the ability to easily redeploy and OS image. In addition, the VM’s can be backed up and easily restored if anything goes wrong. This is not as easy to do with physical machines.

In terms of your specific finding, you can manage network adapter settings both through the azure portal as well as in the VM’s OS itself. Are there any advantages to managing the settings in the portal as opposed to within the OS vm itself?

If changes are made within the OS VM itself, one can lock themselves out in an abrupt fashion.
Managing the settings through the portal provides a convenient, top level view of all the relevant settings depending on the tab that you are in. Other tools are also readily available if needed in the portal.

Hello Patrick- i hope you are enjoying the weekend.

I think you said to email you the first assignment (i just did) but I am not sure if you did or not,

Can you please refresh my mind and let me know where we should submit the first assignment to?

Thank you,

Roberto Nogueda.

Yes, you can email it to him.

Hi Roberto,

Yes, you can e-mail me your assignments. Hope you are having a great weekend!

Pat

what is the translation of GB in Vmware? ( trying to figure out how to add 5 1gb drives to the VM machine).

Hi, I am not sure I understand your question.

Hint: You can create the hard drives in the VMware portal and then format them within the OS itself.

If you could please provide a bit more information about where you are stuck I would be happy to elaborate further!

Pat

Oh Alex,

You were probably in the Advance settings of the hard drive instead directly adding the drives individually. I know I made that mistake first and tried to put it in SCSI Drive via raito 1:5 and noticed this was not the way to go once I started my VMWare back you due to the lack of 5 drive present. I went back and discovered the add button at the end of edit settings on VMWare and remember to have your VMware shut down before you process. I hope that helps 🙂