Activities

Connect To Azure
Create Disk
Create Virtual Machine
Delete Disk
Delete Virtual machine
Disconnect From Azure

Connect To Azure

This activity connects to the specified Azure account.

Activity Parameters

The Connect to Azure activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Azure Auth File (text box editor type): the path of azure authentication file with the following parameters: subscription, key, tenant, client, managementURI (https://management.core.windows.net/) , baseURL (https://management.azure.com/), authURL (https://login.windows.net/), graphURL (https://graph.windows.net/).

In order to complete the value for the other parameters except the ones with default values follow the steps described here: AzureRMAuthentication.docx.

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Output: outputs a Windows Azure Resource Manager connection. The Ouput of this activity should be used as Input for all Connection parameters used for all activities placed under Resource Manager category.

Create Disk

This activity creates a new disk.

Activity Parameters

The Create Disk activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Name (text box editor type): the name of the new created disk.
Resource Disk (text box editor type): the name of the resource group.
Size (text box editor type): the size of the disk in GB.
VHD Url (text box editor type): the location of a valid .vhd file to be used as source for the disk creation. E.g. https://mytestgroup1892.blob.core.windows.net/vhds/example.vhd

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Output Disk Id: outputs the ID of the new created disk.
Output Result: outputs True if the disk was added successfully, otherwise False.

Create Virtual Machine

This activity creates a new virtual machine.

Activity Parameters

The Create Virtual machine activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Name (text box editor type): the name of the new virtual machine.
Network Id (text box editor type): the network resource id. E.g. subscriptions/897655-addfgtccc/resourceGroups/MyTestGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/networks/myNetwork .
Operating System Linux (combo box editor type): select desired Linux OS from the drop-down list.
Operating System Type (combo box editor type): the operating system type for the new virtual machine.
Operating System Windows (combo box editor type): select desired Windows OS from the drop-down list.
Password (password box editor type): the password for the user specified in Username parameter.
Password Binding (text box editor type): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password for the user. (This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encrypted password from outside the workflow, for example when executing the workflow from Portal).
Resource Group (text box editor type): the name of the resource group.
Subnet Name (text box editor type): the subnet name for the virtual machine or leave "default" .
Username (text box editor type): the admin(Windows)/root(Linux) username. NOTE: names like 'admin', 'root', 'user' are not accepted. Please use valid names like 'demouser1' .

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Output Virtual Machine Id: outputs the ID of the new created virtual machine.
Output Result: outputs True if the virtual machine was added successfully, otherwise False.

Delete Disk

This activity deletes the specified disk.

Activity Parameters

The Delete Disk activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Name (text box editor type): the name of the disk.
Resource Disk (text box editor type): the name of the resource group.

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Output Result: outputs True if the disk was deleted successfully, otherwise False.

Delete Virtual Machine

This activity deletes the specified virtual machine.

Activity Parameters

The Delete Virtual Machine activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Name (text box editor type): the name of the virtual machine.
Resource Disk (text box editor type): the name of the resource group.

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Output Result: outputs True if the virtual machine was deleted successfully, otherwise False.

Disconnect From Azure

This activity disconnects the specified Azure account.

Activity Parameters

The Disconnect From Azure activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Connection (text box editor type): Windows Azure Connection. The Output from Connect To Azure activity should be used as input for this parameter.

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