- In Azure Home > Virtual machines, click Add and create a virtual machine for the client with the settings shown in the following table.
The virtual machine is created using the same method as for cluster nodes, so a screenshot is omitted here. Note that the red part differs from the cluster node.
| Basics | ||
|---|---|---|
| Project Details | ||
| Subscription | Your subscription ID | This is the subscription ID issued when subscribing to Azure services. |
| Resource group | sios20rg | |
| Instance Details | ||
| Virtual machine name | sios20lkclient | |
| Region | (Asia Pacific) Southeast Asia | |
| Availability options | No Infrastructure redundancy required (default) | |
| Image | Windows 10 Pro, Version 20H2 | |
| Azure spot instance | No (default) | |
| Size | Standard A2m_v2 | |
| Administrator Account | ||
| Username | lkadmin | |
| Password | XXXXXXXX | |
| Inbound Port Rules | ||
| Public inbound ports | Allow selected ports | |
| Select inbound ports | RDP (3389) | |
- Click Next: Disks. We will not add any disks here.
- Click Next: Networking and enter the following.
| Networking | ||
|---|---|---|
| Virtual network | sios20vnet | |
| Subnet | sios20sub1(10.20.1.0/24) | *Note 1 |
| Public IP | Name:sios20lkclient-ip SKU:Basic Assignment:Static |
Created using the (create new) functionality
*Note 2
|
| NIC network security group | Basic | |
| Public inbound ports | Allow selected ports | |
| Selected inbound ports | RDP (3389) | |
| Accelerated networking | Off (default) | |
| Load balancing | Off (default) | |
*Note 1: Configure the first subnet created in the previous step for the virtual machine.
*Note 2: In this procedure, the Public IP is set in order to allow access via the Internet.
- Click Review + create, review the details, and then click Create.
Create and deploy the virtual machines. Wait until the message "Your deployment is complete." is displayed.
- To change the network configurations, stop the virtual machine created here. From Azure Home > Virtual machines, select the virtual machine you just created and click Stop.
- Change the first network interface to a static IP address. Select Azure Home > Virtual machines > Virtual machine name > Networking and click the first interface name.
- Click IP configurations > ipconfig1 in the left pane to change the IP address assignment mode and IP address.
| Public IP Address | Enabled |
| Assignment | Static |
| IP address | 10.20.1.50 |
- Click Save to save the settings.



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