Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
412 questions
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All VM sizes are not showing while resizing the VM in Azure
All VM sizes are not showing while resizing the VM in Azure, I am using Windows (Windows Server 2022 Datacenter) OS and current size is Standard B2s v2 (2 vcpus, 8 GiB memory). I want to resize this VM from current size to B4MS but when I am resizing,…
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VMSS stopped suddenly doing AutoOSUpgrade
We are 3 VMSS in each env, in all env suddenly VMSS has stopped doing AutoOSUpgrade even after 12hrs of image creation. last AutoOSUpgrade was done at oct25 Upgrade Policy mode : Rolling
asked 2024-11-07T07:57:33.95+00:00
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Wagholikar, Neha
5
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commented 2024-11-15T10:01:58.2333333+00:00
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Srinud
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Azure VMSS status is ❌All succeeded
I created a uniform VMSS with spot VM. Because it's spot, some of instances were failed to allocate, causing the VMSS provison failed. But what does '❌All succeeded' status means?
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How many VMs will be unavailable at once. Will they unavailable in sequence or parallelly. If parallel, how many from any subscription
Hi team we got this alert - Action required: Planned maintenance for Azure will impact virtual machines in westeurope Question is - How many VMs will be unavailable at once. Will they unavailable in sequence or parallelly. If parallel, how many from any…
asked 2024-11-11T07:39:54.83+00:00
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Amul Kumar
0
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
commented 2024-11-13T12:46:53.8666667+00:00
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anashetty
820
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More clarity on difference between VM and VM instances and Availability Sets (AS)
Hello everyone, On the internet, I saw the difference in the image above- between a VM and a VM instance. So, I infer from this that VMs have different OS systems and all of them operate independently. But VM instances are templates or blueprints of a…
asked 2024-11-05T11:29:03.4666667+00:00
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Marouf Ali
270
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edited the question 2024-11-12T10:52:31.5733333+00:00
anashetty
820
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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RDP into VMSS
Having gone through multiple guides I cannot figure out how TO RDP into a VMSS.I already followed this guide and still can't connect. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/65233/vmss-scaleset-instance-rdp-is-not-working
asked 2024-10-31T16:34:39.4766667+00:00
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James Mikolajczyk
10
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edited an answer 2024-11-08T09:03:41.44+00:00
Prrudram-MSFT
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How to Get a Unified View of Virtual Machines and VMSS in Azure Portal?
Hi everyone, I’m currently managing both Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) in the Azure Portal. While I have good visibility over these resources individually, they’re displayed separately, which makes it a bit confusing when I want…
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Patching Azure VMSS using Azure update mangement
How to do patching on a azure VMSS using Azure update management , What is the process to do it , we are patching VM's using update management , is it possible to patch VMSS also , and what are the things that we need to take care.
asked 2023-01-06T05:34:00.2+00:00
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Azure-learning
56
Reputation points
commented 2024-10-31T03:56:09.31+00:00
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Matthew Mckenzie
5
Reputation points
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Managing Instances in Azure VMSS Autoscaling
Details: I have a Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) configured with custom autoscaling. Goal: To delete an instance in VMSS and update the scaling configuration. Scenario: The VMSS is currently set with a minimum count of 5. There are 5 instances running,…
asked 2024-10-22T16:57:27.81+00:00
SafiyullahSA
85
Reputation points
accepted 2024-10-30T22:12:05.31+00:00
SafiyullahSA
85
Reputation points
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Migrating AWAY from Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Hoping anyone can help me, we have had a situation where someone deployed a virtual machine in a virtual machine scale set, we would like to move to a basic azure virtual machine but I don't really see how to do this with a VMSS image, Does anyone have…
asked 2024-10-09T12:16:08.5833333+00:00
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Charl Fourie
1
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commented 2024-10-30T20:30:23.1+00:00
TP
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Can you turn off dashes on metric charts?
We use metrics charts in Azure dashboards and it works really well. However when we try to monitor say CPU or memory for app services or scalesets with instance splitting turned on - it gets messy if there have been scaleouts/in or app service restarts…
asked 2024-10-24T10:28:01.4433333+00:00
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Philip Mumford
0
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answered 2024-10-25T05:44:47.94+00:00
Stanislav Zhelyazkov
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Reputation points MVP
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New-SmbGlobalMapping: A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated.
Recently upgraded OS from Windows server 2019 to Windows Datacenter 2022 OS. When checking existing setups associated with mapping share drives in 2022, observed that Getting error New-SmbGlobalMapping: A specified logon session does not exist. It may…
asked 2024-07-24T18:34:10.1833333+00:00
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Iswarya
10
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edited a comment 2024-10-22T13:35:52.68+00:00
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Asim Shaikh
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Seeking Advice for Automating VMSS Scaling Based on On-Premises SQL Data
Hi everyone, I have a few VMSS (Virtual Machine Scale Sets) already configured to scale up and down based on predefined rules. Now, what I’m looking to achieve is to periodically run a query on my on-premises SQL database, and depending on the result…
asked 2024-10-19T11:52:21.8866667+00:00
razec18
220
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edited the question 2024-10-22T08:55:55.3966667+00:00
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Xyza Xue_MSFT
25,731
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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VM Scale Sets Behind Load Balancer Not Reachable
Hello, So I have a VMSS configured to work with an external facing load balancer. The load balancer has a public IP address and is pingable from the internet. The virtual machine instances behind that is not pingable, however. I attempted to set ports…
asked 2024-10-15T16:57:00.9533333+00:00
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Meissner, Glenn
20
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answered 2024-10-17T15:35:36.84+00:00
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Ganesh Patapati
1,670
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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Virtual Machine Scale Sets vs Availability Zone
Hello guys, I've a doubt regarding Azure VMSS, because I know that VM in Availability zone is used only to distribute VM to multiple zones but they will be completely indipendently. But in case of Virtual Machine Scale Sets, if I will add 3 identical VM…
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Unknown error while deleting VMSS
I need to delete a VMSS but I can't because every time I get this error: "An unexpected error occured while processing the network profile of the VM. Please retry later." I suspect that the problem is in the NIC. The Network Settings blade…
asked 2024-09-18T12:25:11.15+00:00
Sergey Borovoy
521
Reputation points
accepted 2024-10-15T20:12:45.2866667+00:00
Sergey Borovoy
521
Reputation points
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InvalidAuthenticationTokenTenant on 2 VMSS after creating container
Hi, I was trying to deploy a container instance and it failed the first time. Don't remember why. Later, I managed to create it. I also created a separate virtual network for it with a new subnet. I also created an Application Gateway for Containers to…
asked 2024-10-12T12:46:13.5+00:00
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Amrudesh Santhanam
0
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answered 2024-10-14T07:42:38.1666667+00:00
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Sai Krishna Katakam
1,000
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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How does VMSS behave in the Zonal failure Scenario?
Hi, I have a query regarding VMSS behavior. Let's assume I have a VMSS configured with Multi-Availability Zone (1,2,3) but with 1 fixed instance. Now I will see my 1 fixed instance configured in any one of the availability zones from 1,2,3 for which I…
asked 2024-10-07T08:38:05.7066667+00:00
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Jeyasingh, Vijayalingam
81
Reputation points
commented 2024-10-10T04:27:06.2533333+00:00
Jeyasingh, Vijayalingam
81
Reputation points
1 answer
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Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set Package Vulnerabilities
I currently have a Virtual Machine Scale Set deployed and it is currently pointing to a specific image I have chosen. There is a critical vulnerability associated with a package inside this image. I want to upgrade that package. Is there any way I can…
asked 2024-10-07T19:13:57.9666667+00:00
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Ho, Keith D
120
Reputation points
accepted 2024-10-09T15:30:37.6866667+00:00
Ho, Keith D
120
Reputation points
1 answer
Not able to create vmss form compute gallery specialized image through azure cli
I have a specialized image in compute gallery which i am passing as source image id while creating vmss, Error message: "admin user name cannot contain upper case character A-Z" Cli command: "az vmss create -g abhay-dev-terraform-rg -n…
asked 2024-10-04T05:18:52.4666667+00:00
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Abhayjit Kumar
0
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commented 2024-10-09T02:37:05.06+00:00
anashetty
820
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor