Azure Virtual Machines
An Azure service that is used to provision Windows and Linux virtual machines.
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Which App can I use to install packages on instances in vmss of linux on daily basis?
I want to execute a script which has code to install Anti virus like ClamAV on the instances present in the virtual machine scale set. That script should be executed on the newly auto scaled instances too using logic of Azure function. For this I need an…
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Azure permissions needed to get storage context
I have a runbook which tries to get a Storage Context with New-AzStorageContext but the variable keeps coming back empty. I've given the automation account's run as account storage blob data Owner, Storage Account Contributor, and Classic Storage Account…
asked 2019-12-09T11:46:42.387+00:00
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MCMR
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answered 2019-12-09T11:51:33.997+00:00
Vaibhav Chaudhari
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Setting custom script extension in virtual machine scale set is changing the status of instances to NotReady.
I have set custom script extension using az command az vmss extension set --publisher Microsoft.Azure.Extensions --version 2.0 --name CustomScript --resource-group resource_group_name --vmss-name vmss_name --settings…
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VM licensing query
We provisioned a SQL Server VM in Azure with a SQL Standard Edition license, and have been getting billed for the SQL license. It turns out we don’t need SQL on this VM, but we do not want to rebuild the VM, so we can’t exactly delete and re-deploy…
asked 2019-12-06T19:35:17.08+00:00
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Bloke 1
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answered 2019-12-08T07:30:47.98+00:00
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Arwind Yadav
11
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Azure policy to audit VM image on management group level
The problem is image id is defined with subiscription id so I need to re write all image IDs with different subscription IDs, when ever a new subscription is added we need to edit the policy to include that as well. Below is the example, { …
asked 2019-11-27T18:05:31.56+00:00
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Akshay kg
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commented 2019-12-06T17:52:15.037+00:00
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KarishmaTiwari-MSFT
18,667
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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To create a VM host multi VMs
Hello - I'm a newbie to Azure, I'm researching on the web whether allow to create a VM that hosts multi VM in it, but I couldn't find any discussions about it. Does Azure allow to have multi VMs run in one VM? Thank you in advance, Nick
asked 2019-12-05T23:04:12.55+00:00
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Kha Nick
6
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commented 2019-12-06T17:48:39.97+00:00
KarishmaTiwari-MSFT
18,667
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Bastion UK Availability
Are there any timescales on extending the availability of Azure Bastion so it can be hosted in UK regions?
asked 2019-12-06T09:35:48.517+00:00
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Chris Alexander
1
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answered 2019-12-06T09:42:44.157+00:00
msrini-MSFT
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Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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WSL On Windows 2016
i know i can't use WSL on windows 2016 but is there any way to upgrade 2016 to 2019 data center without creating a new VM ?
asked 2019-12-06T00:00:14.253+00:00
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Mas Joko
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answered 2019-12-06T01:26:39.98+00:00
KarishmaTiwari-MSFT
18,667
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Memory Size Discrepancies between machines
I have a handful of virtual machines I created years ago as Linux A0 machines. A0 machines are described as having 750 MB of memory. These are now considered "Classic" virtual machines. They have been humming along nicely with their…
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Common Azure storage for web site accessible from more VMs
Hi Dear, What storage of a web site (dynamic content PHP/mySQL) would you use if you'd need to access it from more virtual machines / scale set? Azure disk can be accessed only from one VM, Azure files do not use chmod/chown filesystem functions (can…
asked 2019-12-03T08:20:26.617+00:00
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Reserved virtual machine
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commented 2019-12-03T10:36:38.767+00:00
Reserved virtual machine
46
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Best practice for production deployments of API
Hi all! I'm pretty new to Azure so please bare with me. I have two current VMs, one for dev/qa and one for prod. Since we can't have any down time, what's the best way to deploy our latest builds? I thought cloning the prod server, updating it,…
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What is the powershell command\Tag to set the Target Key Vault for Azure to Azure encrypted VM DR Scenario?
What is the powershell command\Tag to set the Target Key Vault for Azure to Azure encrypted VM DR Scenario?
asked 2019-11-28T15:35:04.197+00:00
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Alice
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answered 2019-12-02T22:18:52.803+00:00
Micah McKittrick
946
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Reserved virtual machine
Hi, I just purchased Virtual Machines Reserved Instance (3 year subscription) in Azure but I have no idea how to make it up and running as I cannot see it in my resources. Any Idea? Thanks and regards, Josef
asked 2019-11-29T12:56:24.02+00:00
Reserved virtual machine
46
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answered 2019-11-30T23:40:35.423+00:00
Reserved virtual machine
46
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Downgrading SLES 12 SP4 to SLES 12 SP3 in Azure VM
Can we downgrade SLES 12 SP4 to SLES 12 SP3 in Azure VM? Thanks.
asked 2019-11-21T18:54:02.497+00:00
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Nishanth
51
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answered 2019-11-26T17:50:02.787+00:00
Micah McKittrick
946
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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West India VM would not start due to lack of Azure VM capacity
On Friday, my VM in West India would not start due to lack of capacity in the region. I kept trying for 12 hours, and finally it did start during the night in India when more resources were available. How should I resolve so this does not occur again?…
asked 2019-11-23T13:10:58.887+00:00
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Greg Gum
1
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commented 2019-11-25T18:01:11.183+00:00
Micah McKittrick
946
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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rhui-azure-rhel8 NORCH is required to upload customer RHEL8 image
Hi Azure Support, Can some one help me with rhui-azure-rhel8.norch for RHUI RHEL8 custom image. I'm unable to download required packages without rhui-azure-rhel8.norch. …
asked 2019-11-20T07:49:08.237+00:00
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Anonymous
answered 2019-11-25T12:59:25.797+00:00
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Gulab Pasha
11
Reputation points
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Azure Vm Extension Stuck?
Can someone give me some guidance on how to get my monitoring extension working? We did a rename and this new VM is from the previous disk, we are going to have a lot of these in our migration. Any help is greatly appreciated. yes I have…
asked 2019-11-12T20:03:40.813+00:00
Goofoff
91
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commented 2019-11-22T02:10:30.563+00:00
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Micah McKittrick
11
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It looks like low priority VMs are getting their own quota. Is this true?
Last week, we began to get errors while trying to scale up our VM Scale Sets that are configured to launch low priority VMs: The operation couldn't be completed as it results in exceeding quota limit of LowPriorityCores. Maximum allowed: 10, Current…
asked 2019-11-05T18:08:32.867+00:00
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Ricky Smith
26
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answered 2019-11-20T17:14:30.407+00:00
Micah McKittrick
946
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Needed inbound rules within NSG for Windows VM with Azure DevOps Agent
I have a VM which is used as a management endpoint for my service fabric cluster which will be connected through an internal load balancer. My VM will also be connected through a devops server. Considering all these which ports in my inbound rules within…
asked 2019-11-19T09:54:14.33+00:00
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Ping Fung Yin
6
Reputation points
answered 2019-11-19T21:41:23.823+00:00
Micah McKittrick
946
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Minecraft Server
How can I start a Minecraft Server (bat file with console) automatically when Windows VM Server 2019 starts? (Without login and connect to the VM) Thanks 🙏🏼
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