Quickstart: Deploy a virtual machine in an Extended Zone using the Azure portal

In this quickstart, you learn how to deploy a virtual machine (VM) in Los Angeles Extended Zone using the Azure portal.

If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.

Prerequisites

An Azure account with an active subscription
Access to Los Angeles Extended Zone. For more information, see Request access to an Azure Extended Zone.

In this section, you create a virtual network in the Azure Extended Zone that you want to deploy a virtual machine to.

In the search box at the top of the portal, enter virtual network. Select Virtual networks from the search results.
In the Virtual networks page, select + Create.

On the Basics tab of Create virtual network, enter, or select the following information:

Setting	Value
Project Details
Subscription	Select your Azure subscription.
Resource group	Select Create new. Enter myResourceGroup in Name. Select OK.
Instance details
Virtual network name	Enter myVNet.
Region	Select Deploy to an Azure Extended Zone. In Azure Extended Zones, select Los Angeles. Select the Select button.

In the search box at the top of the portal, enter virtual machines. Select Virtual machines from the search results.
In the Virtual machines page, select + Create and then select Azure virtual machine.

On the Basics tab of Create a virtual machine, enter, or select the following information:

Setting	Value
Project details
Subscription	Select your Azure subscription.
Resource group	Select myResourceGroup.
Instance details
Virtual machine name	Enter myVM.
Region	Select Deploy to an Azure Extended Zone. In Azure Extended Zones, select Los Angeles. Select the Select button.
Availability options	Select No infrastructure redundancy required. Azure Extended Zones don't support availability zones.
Security type	Leave the default of Standard. The other available option is Trusted launch virtual machines.
Image	Select Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition - x64 Gen2.
Size	Choose a size or leave the default setting.
Administrator account
Username	Enter a username.
Password	Enter a password.
Confirm password	Reenter password.
Public inbound ports	Select Allow selected ports.
Select inbound ports	Select RDP (3389).

Select the Networking tab, or select Next: Disks, then Next: Networking.
On the Networking tab, enter or select the following information:

Setting Value

Network interface

Virtual network Select myVNet.

Subnet Select default (10.0.0.0/24).

Public IP Select (new) myVM-ip.

NIC network security group Select Basic.

Caution

Leaving the RDP port open to the internet is only recommended for testing. For production environments, it's recommended to restrict access to the RDP port to a specific IP address or range of IP addresses. You can also block internet access to the RDP port and use Azure Bastion to securely connect to your virtual machine from the Azure portal.
Select Review + create.
Review the settings, and then select Create.
After deployment is complete, select Go to resource.

Select Connect.
Under Native RDP, select the select button.
Select Download RDP file and open the downloaded file.
Select Connect and then enter the username and password that you created in the previous steps. Accept the certificate if prompted.

Note

Default outbound access is not available to VMs in Azure Extended Zones. For more information, see Default outbound access in Azure.

When no longer needed, delete myResourceGroup resource group and all of the resources it contains:

In the search box at the top of the portal, enter myResourceGroup. Select myResourceGroup from the search results.
Select Delete resource group.
In Delete a resource group, enter myResourceGroup, and then select Delete.
Select Delete to confirm the deletion of the resource group and all its resources.