Create and manage lab accounts

In Azure Lab Services, a lab account is a container for managed lab types such as labs. An administrator sets up a lab account with Azure Lab Services and provides access to lab owners who can create labs in the account. This article describes how to create a lab account, view all lab accounts, or delete a lab account.

Create a lab account

The following steps illustrate how to use the Azure portal to create a lab account with Azure Lab Services.

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.

2. Select All Services on the left menu. Select Lab Accounts in the DevOps section. If you select star (*) next to Lab Accounts, it's added to the FAVORITES section on the left menu. From the next time onwards, you select Lab Accounts under FAVORITES.

   

3. On the Lab Accounts page, select Add on the toolbar or Create lab account on the page.

   

4. On the Basics tab of the Create a lab account page, do the following actions:

   1. For Lab account name, enter a name.

   2. Select the Azure subscription in which you want to create the lab account.

   3. For Resource group, select Create new, and enter a name for the resource group.

   4. For Location, select a location/region in which you want the lab account to be created.

   5. For the Allow lab creator to pick lab location field, specify whether you want lab creators to be able to select a location for the lab. By default, the option is disabled. When it's disabled, lab creators can't specify a location for the lab they are creating. The labs are created in the closest geographical location to lab account. When it's enabled, a lab creator can select a location at the time of creating a lab. For more information, see Allow lab creator to pick location for the lab.

      

5. Select Next: Advanced at the bottom of the page to navigate to the Advanced tab, and then do the following steps:

   1. Select an existing shared image gallery or create one. You can save the template VM in the shared image gallery for it to be reused by others. For detailed information on shared image galleries, see Use a shared image gallery in Azure Lab Services.

   2. Specify whether you want to automatically shut down Windows virtual machines when users disconnect from them. Specify how long the virtual machines should wait for the user to reconnect before automatically shutting down.

   3. For Peer virtual network, select a peer virtual network (VNet) for the lab network. Labs created in this account are connected to the selected VNet and have access to the resources in the selected VNet. For more information, see Connect your lab's virtual network with a peer virtual network.

   4. Specify an address range for VMs in the lab. The address range should be in the classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) notation (example: 10.20.0.0/23). Virtual machines in the lab will be created in this address range. For more information, see Specify an address range for VMs in the lab

      Note

      The address range property applies only if a peer virtual network is enabled for the lab.

      

6. Select Next: Tags at the bottom of the page to switch to the Tags tab. Add any tags you want to associate with the lab account. Tags are name/value pairs that enable you to categorize resources and view consolidated billing by applying the same tag to multiple resources and resource groups. For more information, see Use tags to organize your Azure resources.

   

7. Select Review + create at the bottom of this page to switch to the Review + create tab.

8. Review the summary information on this page, and select Create.

   

9. Wait until the deployment is complete, expand Next steps, and select Go to resource as shown in the following image:

   You can also select the bell icon on the toolbar (Notifications), confirm that the deployment succeeded, and then select Go to resource.

   Alternatively, select Refresh on the Lab Accounts page, and select the lab account you created.

   

10. You see the following lab account page:

    

View lab accounts

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.

2. Select All resources from the menu.

3. Select Lab Accounts for the type. You can also filter by subscription, resource group, locations, and tags.

   

Delete a lab account

Follow instructions from the previous section that displays lab accounts in a list. Use the following instructions to delete a lab account:

1. Select the lab account that you want to delete.

2. Select Delete from the toolbar.

   

3. Type Yes for confirmation.

4. Select Delete.

   

Next steps

See other articles in the How-to guides -> Create and configure lab accounts (lab account owner) section of the table-of-content (TOC).