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# Customer intent: As an IT admin, I need to understand how to configure compute on an Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU device so that I can use it to transform data before I send it to Azure.
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You can create and manage virtual machines (VMs) on an Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU device by using the Azure portal, templates, and Azure PowerShell cmdlets, and via the Azure CLI or Python scripts. This article describes how to create and manage a VM on your Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU device by using the Azure portal.
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> You will need to enable multifactor authentication for the user who manages the VMs and images that are deployed on your device from the cloud. The cloud operations will fail if the user doesn't have multifactor authentication enabled. For steps to enable multifactor authentication, see [Enable Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication](/training/modules/secure-aad-users-with-mfa/4-exercise-mfa).
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> You'll need to enable multifactor authentication for the user who manages the VMs and images that are deployed on your device from the cloud. The cloud operations fail if the user doesn't have multifactor authentication enabled. For steps to enable multifactor authentication, see [Enable Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication](/training/modules/secure-aad-users-with-mfa/4-exercise-mfa).
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## VM deployment workflow
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Before you begin to create and manage VMs on your device via the Azure portal, make sure that:
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1. You've completed the network settings on your Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU device as described in [Step 1: Configure an Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU device](./azure-stack-edge-gpu-connect-resource-manager.md#step-1-configure-azure-stack-edge-device).
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1. You complete the network settings on your Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU device as described in [Step 1: Configure an Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU device](./azure-stack-edge-gpu-connect-resource-manager.md#step-1-configure-azure-stack-edge-device).
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1. You've enabled a network interface for compute. This network interface IP is used to create a virtual switch for the VM deployment. In the local UI of your device, go to **Compute**. Select the network interface that you'll use to create a virtual switch.
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1. You enable a network interface for compute. This network interface IP is used to create a virtual switch for the VM deployment. In the local UI of your device, go to **Compute**. Select the network interface that you use to create a virtual switch.
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> You can configure only one port for compute.
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1. Enable compute on the network interface. Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU creates and manages a virtual switch corresponding to that network interface.
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1. You have access to a Windows or Linux VHD that you'll use to create the VM image for the VM you intend to create.
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1. You have access to a Windows or Linux VHD that you use to create the VM image for the VM you intend to create.
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## Deploy a VM
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1. On the **Overview** page. Select**Enable** to enable virtual machine cloud management.
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1. On the **Overview** page, select**Enable** to enable virtual machine cloud management.
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1. The first step is to add a VM image. You've already uploaded a VHD into the storage account in the earlier step. You'll use this VHD to create a VM image.
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1. The first step is to add a VM image. You already uploaded a VHD into the storage account in the earlier step. You use this VHD to create a VM image.
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Select **+ Add image** to download the VHD from the storage account and add it to the device. The download process takes several minutes depending on the size of the VHD and the internet bandwidth available for the download.
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|Download to | Automatically set to the current device where you're deploying the VM. |
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|Edge resource group |Select the resource group to add the image to. |
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|Save image as | The name for the VM image that you're creating from the VHD you uploaded to the storage account. |
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|VM generation |Choose Gen 1 or Gen 2 as the generation of the image you'll use to create the VM. For Gen 2 VMs, secure boot is enabled by default. |
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|OS type |Choose from Windows or Linux as the operating system of the VHD you use to create the VM image. |
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|VM generation |Choose Gen 1 or Gen 2 as the generation of the image you use to create the VM. For Gen 2 VMs, secure boot is enabled by default. |
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1. On the **Disks** tab, you attach disks to your VM.
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1. Repeat the preceding process to add more disks. After the disks are created, they show up on the **Disks** tab. Select **Next: Networking**.
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#Customer intent: As an IT admin, I need to be able to quickly deploy new Windows virtual machines on my Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU device, and I want to use an ISO image for OS installation.
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When you use an ISO image to install the operating system on your VM image, you start by creating a blank, fixed-size VHD in Hyper-V Manager. You then use that VHD to create a virtual machine. Then you attach the ISO image to the VM.
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[!INCLUDE [Connect to Hyper-V VM](../../includes/azure-stack-edge-connect-to-hyperv-vm.md)]
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> If you installed the Windows Server 2019 Standard operating system on your virtual machine, you must change the **BIOS** setting to **IDE** before you [generalize the VHD](#generalize-the-vhd).
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