• Project: Snapshots
• Project goal: Create a virtual machine, snapshot it, create a disk from the snapshot, and deploy a new VM from the disk
• Key commands:
  • New-AzureRmResourceGroup
  • Get-AzureRmVm
  • New-AzureRmSnapshotConfig
  • New-AzureRmSnapshot
  • Get-AzureRmSnapshot
  • New-AzureRmDiskConfig
  • New-AzureRmDisk
  • New-AzureRmVMConfig
  • Set-AzureRmVMOSDisk
  • New-AzureRmPublicIpAddress
  • Get-AzureRmVirtualNetwork
  • New-AzureRmNetworkInterface
  • Add-AzureRmVMNetworkInterface
  • New-AzureRmVM
  • Get-AzureRmVm
  • Remove-AzureRmResourceGroup

• General steps:
  1. Create a resource group
  2. Deploy a virtual machine with a default configuration
  3. Take a snapshot of the virtual machine
  4. Delete the virtual machine
  5. Deploy a second virtual machine from the snapshot
  6. Delete the resource group and all resources

• Validation: Ensure that the new virtual machine deploys successfully by logging into it after deploying it from the snapshot
• Reference info: The Snapshotting an Azure VM Disk and Creating VMs from Snapshots sections