A Windows 11 virtual machine offers flexibility, convenience, and the ability to explore and test the latest version of Windows without making permanent changes to your primary operating system or hardware. With a Windows 11 virtual machine, you can create a customized environment tailored to your needs.
Please follow the steps I’ve included below to create your Windows 11 virtual machine.
SIGN IN TO THE AZURE PORTAL
As a prerequisite, If you don't have an Azure subscription, log in here azure.com to create a free account before we get started. Now that you have created your Azure subscription, sign in to the Azure portal using your email and password to get started.
CREATE YOUR VIRTUAL MACHINE
a. In the search bar, type "Virtual Machine"
b. From the search results, select "Virtual Machine" from the list of resources shown
c. Click on the "Create" button
d.) Select the virtual machine highlighted
e) Once you click on it, scroll down and click on create and attach a new disk.
f)Give your new disk a name and leave the other information as default.
g)Click on save as shown below.
h)You can see that the (operating system) OS disk and data disk are two different disks.
Connect to your virtual machine and download the RDP file once you've downloaded follow the prompt, input your username and password.
Now that you been able to gain remote access to your windows Desktop, right click on the Windows icon and click on Disk Management.
Right click on the disk 2 below.
From the drop down click on "new simple volume".
To continue click next on the new simple volume wizard.
Click "Next" on the specify volume size.
Also click "Next" on the Format Partition
To close the wizard click "finish"
In the new volume highlighted Red, you can see that our new volume has been initialized.
Click on your new data disk highlighted Orange.
As shown below, our new data disk is available and ready for use.
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