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• Your subscription
• Existing resource group (or click on Create new)
• Virtual machine name
• Region for the virtual machine
• Linux image supporting your (choose a supported Linux version or - if appropriate - a prepackaged Charon-SSP version (CentOS 7 in the exampleVE marketplace image)
• Size of your VM (click on Change Select size to see a list of available sizes)
• User name for the administrative user of the VM
• Authentication type (SSH or password). Then either paste the public key of the key-pair to use into the field provided, or enter and confirm your password.

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Basics tab lower part sample:

• Enter the name of the administrative user.
• Select SSH public key authentication. You can then use one of the following steps to install your SSH public key.
  
  • Let Azure create a new key-pair for you.
  • Use the public key from a key-pair on your computer. As shown in the example below, you will have to past your public key into the field provided.
  • Use a key-pair previously created on Azure.
• The default allowed inbound port will allow SSH connections without limiting the source IP range. Remember to adapt it to your requirements after creating the instance or in the Networking tab (advanced) during the creation of the instance.

Click on Next: Disks. This will open the Disks tab of the VM creation window.

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Verify that the checks passed successfully and click on Create to create the VM.

Sample Review+Create screen:

If key-pair was newly created, download private key:

If you chose to let Azure create a new SSH key-pair, you will be asked to download the private key after clicking on the Create button, this step is very important as this is the only opportunity to download the private key, which is required to access your VM. The image below shows a sample of this prompt:

Image Added

The Deployment page:

Create will take you to the Deployment page (possibly after downloading the private SSH key) where the current status of the deployment is displayed. Once the VM has been fully deployed, the Deployment Complete screen will be displayed.

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Click on Go to resource to get to the details page of the newly created VM. The image below shows a sample of a detail page:

Initial Access to the Instance

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