Creating Image and VM on Azure

Creating an Image from the DSG BLOB

This section explains how to create an image from the DSG BLOB.

Ensure that the DSG BLOB is downloaded from the My.Protegrity portal to your Azure storage account that will be selected to create the image.

To create an image from the BLOB:

1. Log in to the Azure portal.

2. Select Images and click Create.

3. Enter the details in the Resource Group, Name, and Region text boxes.

4. In the OS disk option, select Linux.

5. In the VM generation option, select Gen 1.

6. In the Storage blob drop-down list, select the Protegrity Azure BLOB.

7. Enter the appropriate information in the required fields and click Review + create.

   The image is created from the BLOB.

Creating a VM from the Image

This section describes the steps to create a VM from an image.

After obtaining the image, you can create a VM from it. For more information about creating a VM from the image, refer to the following link.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/quick-create-portal#create-virtual-machine

To create a VM:

1. Login in to the Azure homepage.

2. Click Images.

   The list of all the images appear.

3. Select the required image.

4. Click Create VM.

5. Enter details in the required fields.

6. Select SSH public key in the Authentication type option.

   As a security measure for the appliances, it is recommended to not use the Password based mechanism as an authentication type.

7. In the Username text box, enter the name of a user.

   This user is added as an OS level user in the appliance. Ensure that the following usernames are not provided in the Username text box:

   • Appliance OS users
   • Appliance LDAP users

8. Select the required SSH public key source.

9. Enter the required information in the Disks, Networking, Management, and Tags sections.

10. Click Review + Create.

    The VM is created from the image.

11. After the VM is created, you can access the appliance from the CLI Manager or Web UI.

    The OS user that is created in step 7 does not have SSH access to the appliance. If you want to provide SSH access to this user, login to the appliance as another administrative user and toggle SSH access. In addition, update the user to permit Linux shell access (/bin/sh).