Manage Azure VMs

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This article provides information about the Manage Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) feature in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

This feature allows you to perform basic actions on Azure instances attached to an Azure profile created for Azure VM management.

Note

To perform these actions, you must create an Azure profile with Profile Usage selected as Azure VM Management. Once an Azure profile for Azure VM Management is created, the VMs deployed on Azure will be accessible on the VMs and Services page of VMM console and will be listed under Azure Subscriptions.

You can perform the following actions on Azure instances, without leaving the VMM console.

  • Add and remove one or more Azure subscriptions using the VMM console.
  • See a list view with details and status of all role instances in all deployments in that subscription.
  • Refresh the list of instances manually
  • Perform the following basic actions on the instances:
    • Start
    • Stop
    • Shutdown
    • Restart
    • Connect via RDP

What isn't supported?

This feature isn't intended to provide feature parity with the Microsoft Azure Management Portal. The functionality of this feature is a minor subset of the features at https://portal.azure.com, but you can view your Azure instances and do other basic actions to simplify everyday tasks and management.

With this feature, you can't:

  • Manage your Azure subscription.
  • Deploy instances to Azure.
  • Migrate on-premises virtual machines to Azure.
  • Manage Azure Storage.
  • Manage Azure Networks.
  • See the Dashboard Summary view.
  • See the Performance Monitoring Summary.
  • Manage more than 50 Azure VMs using Azure profile.