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…
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…
VMSS Health Probe Showing Unhealthy Status Despite Whitelisting Wireserver IP 168.63.129.16
We are currently exploring the configuration of our production Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS), which are behind an Azure Application Gateway. We have implemented a health extension check using the HTTP protocol on port 80. However, we are encountering…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Availability sets vs Availability zones
Hello, Please correct me- Availability sets are free instances of VMs. However, availability zones might incur costs for transferring data between the zones. Regards Marouf
CMG - Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set Cloud Management Gateway instance is Unhealthy in Azure
Hi All, In our SCCM environment configured with Cloud Management Gateway. Its stopped working from last One month. In SCCM console CMG connection point show as disconnected. We checked in Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set Cloud Management Gateway instance…
Unable to delete Loadbalancer beceause it is being used by an already deleted VMSS
When trying to delete a loadbalancer in Azure, I get an error saying that it cannot be removed because it is being used by a Virtual machine Scale Set. However the VMSS is already deleted, it seems that the dependency still exists pointing to a dead…
Monitoring VM and VMSS Performance on Azure
Hey everyone, I’m trying to keep an eye on the performance of some VMs and VMSS instances on Azure, especially when it comes to: Average memory usage (RAM) Disk and network usage Average CPU usage Peak RAM and CPU usage (like the max…
How can I make a VM in a scale set wait for systemd to gracefully shutdown?
I am interested in using VM scale sets for a workload with automatic scale in policies. Unfortunately it seems the scale down policy for shutting down the VMs that part of the scale set is overly aggressive. In my testing I've found that it waits at most…
How to get Auto scaling configuration for VMSSs
Hello, We have a requirement to fetch auto scaling configurations including auto scale status (enabled, disable or configured) auto scaling type (manual or custom), MIn and Max instance counts along with default instance count for 1000+ virtual machine…
Can't see VMSS from Application gateway in different resource group
How can I make my Application Gateway from one resource group communicate with the Virtual machine scale set of another resource group in the same subscription? I have established Network Peering between the two virtual networks, but the Backend pools of…
VMSS HealthCheck - Alert on VMSS instance health state
HI, I have configured Health Check on my VMSS, and enabled automatic OS upgrade. I found one of the VM failed the health check probably after OS upgrade or deployment. I am looking for a way to be able to query this VM instance Health state, so that I…
VM SS scale in - Issue
Scale in Requirement: It’s shutting down even if threads are running in that VM. Example:- suppose I have scaled out to 3 VMs and they are working on 3 messages. Now I want to shut down a VM when it completes the message processing and CPU…
Azure VM quota on VMSS. Will return after some VM in VMSS destroy?
If customer use VMSS (host agent) for Azure pipeline, and setting tear down on idle time. Question from customer. VMSS will return VM quota after tear down or not? Because if not, Existing VM quota will use until empty and VMSS can't create if Azure…