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Provision, migrate, and manage your virtual machines

Provision on-demand, scalable compute infrastructure when you need to quickly provision resources for you business needs.

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Tutorial:

Create a Virtual Machine Running Linux

Creating a virtual machine that is running the Linux operating system is easy when you use the image gallery in the Windows Azure Preview Management Portal. With no prior experience with Windows Azure, you can create a virtual machine running the Linux operating system in the cloud that you can access and customize.

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How To:

How to Log on to a Virtual Machine Running Linux

Learn how to install and use a Secure Shell (SSH) client to log on to a virtual machine that is running the Linux operating system.

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How to Capture an Image of a Virtual Machine Running Linux

Learn how to use images from the Image Gallery to easily create virtual machines, or to capture and use your own images to create customized virtual machines. If you want to create multiple virtual machines that are set up the same way, you can capture an image of a configured virtual machine and use that image as a template.

Manage

Guidance:

Manage the Availability of Virtual Machines

Learn to use multiple virtual machines in Windows Azure so that your applications remain available during local network failures, local disk hardware failures, and planned downtime.

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Load Balancing Virtual Machines

Learn how to set up load balancing among multiple virtual machines that are part of a cloud service.

Build

Tutorial:

Host a Django-based web site on a virtual machine

Learn how to create a web site written in the Django Python web framework and deploy the web site to Windows Azure. You will learn the basics of packaging the Python runtime, required libraries including Django, and your application, and then host the web site on Windows Azure.

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Run iPython Notebook on a virtual machine

The IPython project provides a collection of tools for scientific computing, including an interactive web-based environment called the IPython Notebook. This tutorial shows how to deploy the IPython Notebook on Windows Azure using Linux or Windows virtual machines.

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Install the LAMP stack on a virtual machine

Learn how to install a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS.