Installing Neo4j on an Azure VM

Create an Azure VM (Windows Server A1)

• Directly on the Azure management console
• access info available in OneDrive

Install Neo4j

• Connect to the Azure VM from portal.azure.com
• Open IE, and turn off enhanced security for VM admins (first time creation only)
• From the Azure VM, download neo4j on the VM from http://neo4j.com
• Run the Neo4j Windows installer
• Copy the snapshot of the graph db from OneDrive to the Azure VM
• from the Azure VM, open Neo4j, and start the service using the folder of the snapshot you downloaded (e.g. C:\Users\mgdb\Documents\Neo4j\default.graphdb )
• Go on http://localhost:7474 , connect using your test user name and password, and verify that all works as expected

Install Neo4j as a service

• first download JRE 8 from Oracle on the Azure VM directly. From IE, download from here: http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u112-b15/jre-8u112-windows-x64.exe
• Note that Neo4j v3 will only work with JRE 8
• download the Neo4j 3.1 zip file to the VM from Neo4j: https://neo4j.com/download/other-releases/
• Extract
• Open powershell as an admin. Go to the folder you just unzipped, under bin, then run .\neo4j.bat install-service
• Open server manager, go to services, refresh, and verify that the Neo4j service is present. By default, it is installed and configured to start automatically when the server starts