In Azure Stack, services are delivered to users using subscriptions, offers, and plans. Users can subscribe to multiple offers.
LAB : Azure Stack – Make Virtual Machines Available To Tenants
Overview
Offers can have one or more plans, and plans can have one or more services.
As an Azure Stack cloud administrator, you can create offers that your users (sometimes referred to as tenants) can subscribe to. Using their subscription, users can then consume Azure Stack services.
This lab shows you how to create an offer, and then test it.
For the test, you will log in to the portal as a user, subscribe to the offer, and then create a virtual machine using the subscription.
Tasks covered :-
- Create an offer
- Add an image
- Test the offer
Exercise 1 : Create an offer
Now you can get things ready for your users. When you start the process, you are first prompted to create the offer, then a plan, and finally quotas.
Offers are groups of one or more plans that providers present to users to purchase or subscribe to.
- Access the Azure Stack administrator portal at https://adminportal.local.azurestack.external and sign in as :-
Username : azurestackadmin@azurestack.local
Password : Pa55w.rd1234
- Click New > Tenant Offers + Plans > Offer.
- In the New Offer blade, fill in the following :-
Display name – UserOffer01
Resource name – useroffer01
Resource Group – Select the Create new radio button and type RG01
The Display Name is the offer’s friendly name. Only the cloud operator can see the Resource Name. It’s the name that admins use to work with the offer as an Azure Resource Manager resource.
- Click Base plans, and in the Plan blade, click Add to add a new plan to the offer.
- In the New Plan blade, fill in the following :-
Display name – UserPlan01
Resource name – userplan01
The Display Name is the plan’s friendly name that users see. Only the cloud operator can see the Resource Name. It’s the name that cloud operators use to work with the plan as an Azure Resource Manager resource.
- Still in the New Plan blade, click Services, select Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Network, and Microsoft.Compute, and then click Select.
- Still in the New Plan blade, click Quotas.
For an IaaS quota, follow these steps for the Compute, Network, and Storage services.
In the Quotas namespace list, select the Microsoft.Compute namespace and then click Create new quota.
- On the Create quota blade, type a name for the quota, CompQuota01 and set the desired parameters for the quota and click OK .
- Now, for Microsoft.Compute, select the quota that you just created.
- Repeat these steps for Microsoft.Network and Microsoft.Storage namespaces, and then click OK on the Quotas blade.
- Click OK on the New plan blade.
- On the Plan blade, select the new plan and click Select.
- On the New offer blade, click Create. You will see a notification when the offer has been created.
- On the dashboard menu, click Offers and then click the offer you just created.
- Click Change State, and then click Public.
Exercise 2 : Add an image
By default, there aren’t any virtual machine images available in the Azure Stack marketplace. The Azure Stack cloud administrator must add an image to the marketplace before users can use them. You can add the Windows Server 2016 image to the Azure Stack marketplace by using one of the following two methods:
- Add the image by downloading it from the Azure Marketplace – Use this option if you are operating in a connected scenario and if you have registered your Azure Stack instance with Azure.
- Add the image by using PowerShell - Use this option if you have deployed Azure Stack in a disconnected scenario or in scenarios with limited connectivity.
This exercise shows you how to add a Windows Server 2016 image from the Azure Marketplace.
- Access the Azure Stack administrator portal at https://adminportal.local.azurestack.external and sign in as :-
Username : azurestackadmin@azurestack.local
Password : Pa55w.rd1234
- Click More services > Marketplace Management
- In Marketplace Management, click Add from Azure
- Find or search for the Windows Server 2016 Datacenter – Eval image > click Download. Download times may vary.
- After the download completes, the image is added to the Marketplace Management blade and it is also made available from the Virtual Machines blade.
Exercise 3 : Test the offer
Now that you’ve created an offer, you can test it. Log in as a user and subscribe to the offer and then add a virtual machine.
Task 1 : Subscribe to an offer
Log in to the portal as a user to subscribe to an offer.
- Access the Azure Stack user portal at https://portal.local.azurestack.external and sign in as :-
Username : azstenant@azurestack.local (create this account in Active Directory)
Password : Pa55w.rd1234
- Click Get a Subscription.
- In the Display Name field, enter Subscription1
Click Offer, in the Choose an offer blade, select UserOffer01 and then click Create.
- To view the subscription you created, click More services, click Subscriptions, then click your new subscription.
After you subscribe to an offer, refresh the portal to see which services are part of the new subscription.
Task 2 : Provision a virtual machine
Now you can provision a virtual machine using the subscription.
- Click New > Compute > Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Eval.
In the Basics blade, type the following :-
Name – TestVM
User name – testvmadmin
Password – Pa55w.rd
VM disk type – HDD
Subscription – Subscription1
Resource group – Create new -> NewRG
Click OK.
- In the Choose a size blade, click A1 Basic, and then click Select.
- In the Settings blade, click Virtual network. In the Choose virtual network blade, click Create new. In the Create virtual network blade, accept all the defaults, and click OK. In the Settings blade, click OK.
- In the Summary blade, click OK to create the virtual machine.
- To see your new virtual machine, click All resources, then search for the virtual machine and click its name.
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