Jumpstart HCIBox - how do I connect to an Azure VM deployed to the HCI Box via the VM Gallery

[colinrippeyfinarne]

Hi,

First thanks for such an awesome resource!

I've deployed the Jumpstart HCIBox and been exploring the capabilities,

I've created an Azure VM using the Windows 2k22 gallery image...all good so far...I can see the vm as an arc server, and if I install the Windows Admin Center via the Azure Portal I can see the VM.

I have run into a "how do I RDP onto the vm" block. I don't know what steps I should follow to allow me to RDP onto the VM.

Can anyone help me understand?

I went to the Azure Portal, connected to the HCIBox-Cluster, from the Windows Admin Center (preview) blade installed and connected, I can now see the Windows Admin Center and all the various blades via the Azure Portal.

If I choose the Cluster resources->Virtual machines blade I can see all the VMs (the AKS control plane VMs and the workload VMs) and the new VM I created.

If I select the VM I created I can see a Connect drop-down which gives me these options:

Connect
Download RDP File
Use Windows Admin Center

I've "tried" to use Connect and Use Windows Admin Center but to no avail, not sure what I am supposed to do, for example do I need to tweak the top-level HCIBox-NSG to allow connections through from my own laptop or is the connection "brokered" via the Windows Admin Center?

Kind regards,

Colin

[colinrippeyfinarne]

HI, just in case anyone else comes across the same issue.

Using the Windows Admin Center to connect to the VM. At the step above Connect. I was entering the username password for the actual VM. I changed this and entered the username as jumpstart<myadmin> and this got me onto the RDP screen where I then was able to enter the username password for the actual VM.

So to me I had to enter the cluster domain credentials to get onto a screen that then allowed me to "start" the RDP session, and from there I could then use the VM direct username password.