Deploy 10 Virtual Machines in Azure

 

Prompts for ServiceName, also securely passes Admin/Pass to Add-AzureProvisioningConfig

Creates 10 Servers hostname: Thing#

 

<#   .NOTES Author: Drew Robinson Last Updated: 9/2/2014 #>     # Change color to yellow, prompt human for Servicename, reset color back to default [console]::ForegroundColor = "yellow"   $Servicename = Read-Host -Prompt "Please Enter Servicename for this deployment: (servicename is the internet facing name, [name].cloudapp.net)"   [console]::ResetColor()   # Get Credentials (secure) $Cred=Get-Credential -Message "Please Enter the Administrator Username and Password for the VMs, note: you can't use Admin/Administrator, password must be complex"   # Get-VM Images and filter Windows Server 2012 R2 $VMImages=Get-AzureVMImage |Where-Object {($_.PublisherName -ilike "Microsoft*" -and $_.ImageFamily -ilike 'Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter') }   # 1..10 = array of of 10 things, $_ = put array # here   1..10 |ForEach {$VMName = "thing$_" New-AzureVMConfig -Name $VMName -InstanceSize "ExtraSmall" -ImageName $vmimages[1].ImageName |Add-AzureProvisioningConfig -Windows -AdminUsername $cred.UserName -Password $Cred.GetNetworkCredential().password -TimeZone "Central Standard Time" -Verbose |Add-AzureDataDisk -CreateNew -DiskSizeInGB '15' -DiskLabel "disk 1" -LUN '0' |New-AzureVM -location 'South Central US' -servicename $Servicename -Verbose }