# Practical Steps on Deploying a Virtual Machine Owner: Savage Babajide Author: Savage Babajide Category: Admin & Governance Created time: August 14, 2024 5:14 AM Publish: Yes **STEP 1** Make sure you have necessary permissions on your Organization’s Azure Portal. Go to [www.portal.azure.com](http://www.portal.azure.com), search for Virtual Network and select Create  **STEP 2** Select the Resource group that you would like to place the Virtual network and give the Virtual network a name and the region. Let's deploy all our resources in East US  **STEP 3** On the Security page, configure to the desired security for the organization  **STEP 4** Select the network page and fill in the IP address and create a subnet and then click on the next button  **STEP 5** Tag the Virtual network for the purpose of easy identification  **STEP 6** Tag the Virtual network for the purpose of easy identification  **STEP 7** Review and create the Virtual network.  **STEP 8** Once the validation is passed, click on create  **STEP 9** On the successful completion of the Deployment, click on go to resource. Next create a new Public IP by navigating to the Market Place and select PIP Select the resource group and give the PIP  **STEP 10** Select the DDos protection as suitable for the Organization  **STEP 11** Click on next and select the Tags  **STEP 12** Click on review and select create.  **STEP 13** One the validation process is successful click on create button  **STEP 14** We Would then create a Network Interface.  **STEP 15** Select Network Interface from the Market place and select the create button Fillin the Resource Group and Submit the Network Interface name. Click on the Virtual Network we created before and select the IPV4 and click on dynamic.  **STEP 16** Select the next button and click fill in the Tags and click on review and create  **STEP 17** We will be creating a Network security Group. We navigated to the Market Place and select Network Security Group.  **STEP 18** Select the Azure subscriptions and Resource Group and give the name of the NSG.  **STEP 19** Select the tags and click on review and create.  **STEP 20** Once the Validation process is complete click on create.  **STEP 21** Once the deployment is complete click on to go resource. After creating the Virtual network, the Public IP address, Network Interface and network Security group, we can now deploy our Virtual Machine. Navigate to the Market place and select Virtual Machine and hit on create Select the resource group, add a name to the Virtual machine. Select the Availability zone Give the Virtual Machine a name and create the password to access the Virtual machine   **STEP 22** Select the disk management specification as agreed by the organization  **STEP 23** On the Network, Click the network we previously created and select the subnet and assign the Public IP we created and select the NIC we created.  **STEP 24** Select the management and decide the time to shut down the Virtual machine, add the email address to get notification. Add the desired Time Zone.  **STEP 25** On the monitoring section, select the Enable with managed storage account.  **STEP 26** On the advance section, select the next button.  **STEP 27** Select the review and create. Once the validation phase is completed, Click on create.  Note: It is not advisable to Have RDP ports open to the internet.