Introduction
This page describes how to configure the Votiro Cloud cluster to work with Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform.
Solution
Prerequisites
Before you start, verify that the following are available:
| n | An active Azure subscription |
| n | The latest VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) provided by Votiro. |
| n | The Azure Storage Explorer tool installed on a system that can access the Azure account and will be used to upload the VHD to your Storage account in Azure. This tool may be downloaded from Azure Storage Explorer. |
| n | The recommended disk size is 256 GB Premium SSD. |
Procedure
| 1. | Run Azure Storage Explorer and authenticate with your Azure account. |
| 2. | On the left pane click on Toggle Explorer. |
| a. | Expand the view of the desired subscription. |
| b. | Expand Storage Accounts. |
| c. | Select the desired Storage account and expand it. |
| d. | Under Blob Containers, right click it and select Create Blob Container. |
| e. | Provide it with a name. |
| 3. | Drag and drop the extracted VHD file to the created Blob Container. |
| 4. | Once the upload process completes, open the Azure portal and navigate to the Images blade. |
| 5. | Click on Add. The Create an image screen is displayed. |
| 6. | Fill in the information to build the image from the VHD: |
| a. | Provide the image with a Name. |
| b. | Select a Subscription. |
| c. | Type in the Resource group. |
| e. | Select the OS type as Linux. |
| f. | Click on Browse and select the uploaded VHD file. |
| 7. | After the image is created, Create a managed disk. |
| 8. | Fill in the information as in the screenshot below: |
| b. | Select the Resource group. |
| c. | Provide a Name for the disk, for example Node-1. |
| d. | Select the Region which you would like the disk and VM to be in. |
| e. | For Source type, select Storage Blob. |
| f. | In Source blob, Browse to the uploaded VHD. |
| g. | For OS type, select Linux. |
| h. | The disk Size should be 256 GiB Premium SSD. |
| i. | Click on Review + create. |
| 9. | After the deployment of the disk is complete, select it and create a VM from it. |
| 10. | Fill in the information in the Create VM wizard as in the screenshot below: |
| 11. | In the Disks blade, keep the defaults. |
| 12. | In the Networking blade, select the desired virtual network, NSG (network security group), etc. |
| 13. | To complete, click on Review + create. |
| 14. | Repeat steps 7-13 for the other Disks and VMs in the cluster. |
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