Azure VM NIC's

mikejwhat · 2014-03-28T09:20:53.000Z

Hi,

Just having a play with Azure. Can’t seem to see a way to add a secondary NIC so how do I go about creating my own LAN to add the Server to without losing RDP access. Thoughts? Thanks.

michaelwest8976 · 2014-03-28T09:48:15.000Z

I think by design Azure only allows one NIC per VM. You may have to first setup any virtual network settings you want before creating the VM and assigning it to that virtual network.

Here is some good info on guidelines for your virtual Network:

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There may be some tricks for moving an already created VM to a different virtual network later but it may involve creating a new VM using the Virtual hard disk of the original VM.

mikejwhat · 2014-03-28T10:11:25.000Z

It seems like the VM already has a public and private ip somehow. But if I create my own private ip config on the sole NIC I wont have a gateway to point it at? Need to read up a bit I think. Just thought it would be intuitive.