Virtual machines (VMs) are both very popular on-premises and in the cloud. This chapter is designed to give you all the information you need to manage VMs so that you can start deploying and configuring them without hesitation. We will provide answers to problems such as vertical/horizontal scaling, monitoring, configuring networking, and connecting to different machines.
In this chapter, we will start by adding additional disks to a VM and configuring its network and configuration. You will also learn how to manage monitoring, availability, and the number of instances of working machines. The last part of this chapter will cover the security features of VMs, along with different ways to connect to them.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Adding data disks
- Adding network interfaces
- Using Desired State Configuration
- Scaling VMs up/out...
