This might be simple, I've only been tooling with Azure for a few days now ...
I want to set up an environment within Azure, complete with DC's, MX's, SharePoint, File Servers etc to see if we can obviate the need for our own data center.
I've created a Virtual Network, Storage Space & Affinity Group and have created 2 VMs that are being assigned IP addresses via DHCP within the Virtual Network's 1st subnet range.
The VM's can ping each other's ip addresses but can't ping each other by name.
I added the DNS Server role to the first machine ... and directed both machines to use that machine as it's DNS server ... no luck, in fact I lose contact with both machines for a while and then when I finally get back in their IP addresses have changed and they are back to using DHCP for all of their addressing information.
Trying to follow some of the documentation ... but it's pretty sparse - any help appreciated