Deploy shielded VMs

• Gäller för:

  ✅ Windows Server 2025, ✅ Windows Server 2022, ✅ Windows Server 2019, ✅ Windows Server 2016

The following topics describe how a tenant can work with shielded VMs.

1. (Optional) Create a Windows template disk or create a Linux template disk. The template disk can be created by either the tenant or the hosting service provider.

2. (Optional) Convert an existing Windows VM to a shielded VM.

3. Create shielding data to define a shielded VM.

   For a description and diagram of a shielding data file, see What is shielding data and why is it necessary?

   For information about creating an answer file to include in a shielded data file, see Shielded VMs - Generate an answer file by using the New-ShieldingDataAnswerFile function.

4. Create a shielded VM:

   • Using Windows Azure Pack: Deploy a shielded VM by using Windows Azure Pack

   • Using Virtual Machine Manager: Deploy a shielded VM by using Virtual Machine Manager

Next step

Create a shielded VM template

Additional References

• Guarded fabric and shielded VMs