Deploying Avaya IP Office Servers as Virtual Machines

Creating a new Azure virtual machine

Last Updated : Feb 03, 2025 |

About this task

Follow this procedure to create a new virtual machine from the .vhd file.

Before you begin

Upload the IP Office .vhd file. See Uploading the VHD file to Azure.

Procedure

In the Azure portal, click the icon.
Enter managed disks in the search box.
Select Managed Disks from the results.
1. Select your Subscription and Resource group.
2. Enter the disk name in Disk name.
3. Select your Region.
4. Set the Source type to Storage blob.
5. Next to Source blob, click Browse.
6. Browse to the uploaded .vhd file. Select the file and click Select.
7. Set the OS type to Linux.
8. Set the Security type to Standard. Do not select Confidential or Trusted launch.
9. Set the VM generation.
  - IP Office R12.1 and higher: Select generation 2.
    Note:
    If you need multiple interfaces, you must manually add additional network adapters in Hyper-V or Microsoft Azure.
  - IP Office R12.0 and earlier: Select generation 1.
10. Click Change size and select the require disk size and type.
  - To achieve the stated capacity and performance, you must provision all IP Office virtual disks as Thick Provision Eager Zeroed or the equivalent for the particular hosting platform.
11. Click Review + create.
12. Click Create.
In the Azure portal, click the icon.
Select Home.
Select Disks:
1. Click on the disk created in the previous steps.
2. Click Create VM.
3. Select the Resource group.
4. Enter a name in Virtual machine name.
5. In the Image text box, browse and select the uploaded iposerver file.
6. Select the required virtual machine size.
7. In the Authentication type, select Password.
8. Verify the network subnets.
9. Click Review + create.
10. Click Create.

Next Steps

If intending to support Media Manager, see Adding an Additional Disk for Media Manager.
Otherwise, start the server. See Starting an Azure Virtual Machine.

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