Microsoft Azure

本文档将为您提供有关如何在Azure中准备和注册自己的模板图像的说明，以供框架使用。在进行准备程序之前，请确保您已经阅读了有关的一般要求和注意事项Windows BYO imagepage. We will outline additional details specific to Azure public cloud below.

Considerations

• When creating a new template image for Azure, we recommend you start with the Microsoft-provided Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Server 2019 images. Community and third-party Azure Marketplace VMs have not been tested.
• We recommend using 1909, 20H1, 20H2, or 21H1 editions of Windows 10 Pro/Enterprise. Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session images are not supported.
• Only Azure Generation 1 VMs are supported.
• Limit Azure image/snapshot name to 50 characters to avoid deployment issues in Frame.
• You may bring your own image, but the procedure below assumes you have uploaded the image to Azure and verified that a Windows VM instance built using your image operates correctly.

Image Preparation

1. First, starting with a Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Server 2019 image, create a VM in the Azure account you are going to use for Frame. When configuring your image, you must use a Windows OS user account with local Windows administrator privileges.

2. Access the VM via RDP and download the Windows Frame Guest Agent (FGA) installer from theNutanix门户.

3. Install the FGA using either the standalone executable or ISO image.

4. Once the FGA Installer has completed successfully its installation, reboot the VM to complete the installation of the Frame Guest Agent.

5. (Optional): If a proxy server is required for all outbound traffic to the Internet from your private network, you will need to configure Frame Guest Agent to use your proxy server. Refer to ourFrame Proxy Server Supportdocumentation page for further details.

6. (Optional): If you plan to use AMD or NVIDIA GPU-based instance types in Azure, make sure you install the appropriateAMD或者NVIDIAGPU drivers in your template image VM.

7. (Optional): Install your applications and finish image customization.

8. Once you have configured the image as desired, launch Powershell as an administrator.

9. Run the following PowerShell command to generalize your image using Microsoft Sysprep:

Start-Process-文件路径"$env:windir\System32\Sysprep\Sysprep.exe"-ArgumentList“ /oobe /shutdown /概括 /毫无疑问：$env:programdata\Nutanix\Frame\Sysprep\Unattend.xml"-Wait-NoNewWindow

10. If the VM does not shutdown, then there was a problem with sysprep. Review the sysprep logs in%WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Pantherto determine the source of the error.

11. When sysprep is successful, the VM will automatically power off. Verify that the VM has stopped in Azure Console.

Tag Snapshot

To use the template image to create VMs (e.g., Sandbox VM), you need to snapshot the VM disk you prepared and label the snapshot for Frame. Use of a snapshot eliminates the need for Azure to run sysprep again when the new VM is created from the template image.

1. Navigate to the list of disks for the Azure VM.

13. Take a snapshot of the OS disk.

14. Make sure you choose "Standard_HDD" for storage type, leave default encryption type, and select "Public endpoint" for connectivity method.

15. Once the image is created, navigate to the list of snapshots in the Azure Portal. Click on the snapshot you created in the previous step and assign a tag with the nameFrameRole和价值MasterImageto the snapshot.

16. Assign a second tag with the nameFrameGuestagentKind和价值fgato the snapshot.

Voilà! You have successfully created a template image to be registered in Frame for use to create your Frame workloads. You may prepare additional template images (e.g., different Windows OS versions, template images with different sets of applications) by simply repeating the procedure with a new image.

Registration

Now it's time to register your template image in Frame. See how to do this in ourCloud Accounts > Template Imagesguide.