1. Introductory Tutorial

• 1.1. Create an Azure Account
• 1.2. Sign up for a Developer Azure Support Plan
• 1.3. Use Azure CLI to examine your quota
  • 1.3.1. Review list of regions and virtual machines available in each region.
  • 1.3.2. Follow the instructions in the link below to increase your vCPU quota to allow you to create a virtual machine and run CMAQ.
  • 1.3.3. Request a quota increase for the HTC Queue - HC Family of vCPUs for a region where they are available.
  • 1.3.4. Request a quota increase for the HPC Queue - HBv3 Family of vCPUs
  • 1.3.5. Request a quota increase for the scheduler node D4s_v3
  • 1.3.6. Request a quota increase for the F2sV2 HTC Compute Node (part of the Fsv2-series instances)
• 1.4. Create a virtual machine
  • 1.4.1. The availability of Images that can be selected depends on the region.
  • 1.4.2. Enter Name, then Select Region, Select Image and Select Size
• 1.5. Login to Virtual Machine
  • 1.5.1. Verify that the 1024 GiB size disk is not listed as being available
• 1.6. Delete the virtual machine and all of the associated resources by deleting the resource group.