This article describes how to deploy Versa Director on Azure

Prerequisites

1. User has the Versa Director VHD file.
   If you do not have it, please send email to support@versa-networks.com to request VHD File with following details
   1. Blob URL
   2. Key File

With this information, Versa will share the required VHD file

Procedure

After receiving VHD File, please follow these Steps. 

1. Create VM Image using VHD, Login to the Azure portal

Navigate to “All Services” on Azure Portal and Click on "Images"

2. Click on "Add" Button
3. Create Image by Selecting VHD.

4. Fill required Details like Name, Subscription, Resource Group, Location
5. Please select
   OS Type = Linux
   Storage Blob = Select Path of VHD file which you received from Support.
   Please Note: The Name of the image will be required while creating VM
6. After this Click on Create

7. Now create the VM using VM Image
   Navigate to Home > Images and select Image which we created. In this case it is “16.1R2-S6-Lab”

8. Click on + Create VM
9. Navigate to Basics tab

10. Select appropriate values for the required parameters.
    1. Subscription: Subscription Type
    2. Resource Group: Select your Resource Group
    3. Virtual Machine Name : Select Desired Name for Virtual Machine
    4. Region: Select Region where you want to spin up this VM
    5. Image: Select Image which we created using steps 1-6
    6. Size: Select VM Size from number of CPU Cores and Memory
    7. Authentication Type: Select SSH Public Key
    8. Username: Configure any name which you will use for SSH access into this VM
    9. SSH Key: Create SSH Keys and configure using below mentioned ref links
       Ref : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/ssh-from-windows
       https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/create-ssh-keys-detailed
    10. Public Inbound Ports: Select None
        Please Note: Once VM is up and running you can Apply desired Security Group to filter Ports on Public IP address
11. Disk Tab

Select Disk Type

12. Networking Tab
    1. Virtual Networks: You can create New Network or Select Existing Networks
    2. Subnet: Select/ Create Subnet
    3. Public IP: Create or Select Public IP . This IP will be used to make Versa Director reachable from Internet
    4. Public In-bound Port: Select Port which need to allowed from Internet. Since we are deploying Versa Director, we need HTTPS and SSH ports to be accessible from Internet

13. Management and Guest Config tabs can be kept unchanged

14. Navigate to Review + Create and click on Create

15. Go to Notification to View VM Deployment Progress

16. Once the Deployment is successful, VM will start automatically

17. Once Deployment is complete, you can add and remove Network Interfaces as per your topology

Now you will be able to access the Versa Director with the VMs IP address using web browser

https://<IP_address>