Preparing AZ-104 : Creating Virtual Network (VNet) from PowerShell and related CMDLETs – Azure Administration

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We are discussing one of the most important concept of AZURE “Virtual Network”.

Till now we discussed

• Preparing AZ-104 : Understand Virtual Networks (VNet) – Important concept / feature in AZURE – Simplifying concepts
• Preparing AZ-104 : Creating Virtual Networks (VNet) from Azure portal – Important concept / feature in AZURE – Simplifying concepts

Today we will continue our discussion and will create Virtual Network using PowerShell. This will help for administrators as well as for preparing interviews

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POWERSHELL CMDLET to create Virtual Network (VNet)

• For creating Virtual Network we need resource group. If you new to Resource Group we have very good articles on Resource Groups, please have a look
  • Azure – Resource and Resource group
  • Preparing AZ-104 : Creating Resource group from PowerShell and related CMDLETs – Azure Administration
• Assuming Resource Group is created say – “rg-azure-dev-centralindia-001” as

• New-AzVirtualNetwork cmdlet is used to create new Virtual Network (VNet)
• Syntax

New-AzVirtualNetwork
   -Name <String>
   -ResourceGroupName <String>
   -Location <String>
   -AddressPrefix <String[]>
   [-DnsServer <String[]>]
   [-FlowTimeout <Int32>]
   [-Subnet <PSSubnet[]>]
   [-BgpCommunity <String>]
   [-EnableEncryption <String>]
   [-EncryptionEnforcementPolicy <String>]
   [-Tag <Hashtable>]
   [-EnableDdosProtection]
   [-DdosProtectionPlanId <String>]
   [-IpAllocation <PSIpAllocation[]>]
   [-EdgeZone <String>]
   [-Force]
   [-AsJob]
   [-DefaultProfile <IAzureContextContainer>]
   [-WhatIf]
   [-Confirm]
   [<CommonParameters>]

• Examples

New-AzVirtualNetwork -Name vnet-azure-dev-centralindia-002 -ResourceGroupName rg-azure-dev-centralindia-001 -Location centralindia -AddressPrefix "10.0.0.0/16" 

• VNet “vnet-azure-dev-centralindia-002” created successfully 🙂

• On VNet listing page if we click on VNet “vnet-azure-dev-centralindia-002”, we will see the details as shown in below figure

Other VNet PowerShell CMDLETs

• Get all Virtual Networks – Get-AzVirtualNetwork

Get-AzVirtualNetwork
   [-Name <String>]
   [-ResourceGroupName <String>]
   [-DefaultProfile <IAzureContextContainer>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Get-AzVirtualNetwork | Format-Table Name, ResourceGroupName, Location

• Delete Virtual Network – Remove-AzVirtualNetwork

Remove-AzVirtualNetwork
      -Name <String>
      -ResourceGroupName <String>
      [-Force]
      [-PassThru]
      [-AsJob]
      [-DefaultProfile <IAzureContextContainer>]
      [-WhatIf]
      [-Confirm]
      [<CommonParameters>]

• “Remove-AzVirtualNetwork“ will prompt us once for removing as shown in above figure
• On click of “Yes” respective Virtual Network will be removed
• If we again execute “Get-AzVirtualNetwork” CMDLET we will see only one virtual network listed

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