# Creating a MediaAgent for Azure VM or Amazon EC2

A MediaAgent provides high performance data movement and manages the data storage. For scalability, you can create more than one MediaAgent in a CommCell environment.

- Azure VM: Configure auto-scaling for Azure VM access nodes

- Amazon EC2: Configure auto-scaling for Amazon EC2 access nodes

## Procedure

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Manage > Infrastructure.

   The Infrastructure page appears.

2. Click the MediaAgent tile.

   The MediaAgent page appears.

3. Click Add MediaAgent.

   The Add MediaAgent dialog box appears.

4. In the Provisioning Hypervisor field, select the hypervisor that will host the MediaAgent by using the choices in the dropdown list.

5. Click the Create MediaAgent tab.

   The dialog box switches to the Create MediaAgent options.

6. In the Provisioning Hypervisor field, select the hypervisor that will host the MediaAgent by using the choices in the dropdown list.

7. In the Region field, select the region that will host the MediaAgent from the list of regions configured in VM Provisioning Settings by using the choices in the dropdown list.

8. Click Windows or Linux as the Operating System.

9. Name the virtual machine by typing a name into the VM Name field.

10. Launch the job to create the MediaAgent by clicking Submit at the lower right of the screen.

11. The newly created MediaAgent will be listed in MediaAgent page under the name you gave it with the other MediaAgents.

## Related Topics

MediaAgent: System Requirements

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