VM Sizes not available

Question

Good day,

Currently facing an issue of VM sizes not available when trying to create a VM in South Africa North region.

This is for a new subscription.

I have logged a call with Azure support 7 days ago but still the issue hasn't been resolved or at least provided a workaround.

Has anyone experienced this issue before with a new subscription for the specific region mentioned above?

Regards

Answer 1

I already had this issue in Canada East.
Status Message: Allocation failed. We do not have sufficient capacity for the requested VM size in this region

But when i tried later that day, it worked.

Have you tried to create a different VM size ?

Answer 2

Hi @Jabulani Motloung

Thank you for asking this question on the **Microsoft Q&A Platform. **

In this thread it suggests some validation:

There are a couple reasons you might see the "This size is currently unavailable" / NotAvailableForSubscription error:

• You have hit your core limit for that region (I suspect this may be the reason).
• There are no more of those SKUs available in that region.
• You are unable to create VMs in that region due to a policy created by your admin.
• The VM size you are trying to use is not available for your subscription (free/student accounts, for example).
• The specific VM SKU you are trying to create has not been enabled for your subscription (shouldn't be the case for D series, but it might be the case for others like the N series VMs). You need to open a support ticket to enable that SKU.
• You are trying to deploy an Azure Spot VM or Spot scale set instance and there isn't additional capacity at that location.

Hope this helps,
Carlos Solís Salazar

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Answer 3

I am having this same issue, but as OP mentioned, other subscriptions are just fine. It's very odd..

For instance....

2 months ago I spun up a couple PoC licenses (2-BizPrem 1-E3) and an Azure Free Trial Subscription. No issues whatsoever.
This PoC environment was supposed to be the only one before production stages, but, things. Spun up a second set of same licenses.

Now, MS is good, when I tried to do a Free Trial Subscription again, forced me into Pay-As-You-Go (likely because it very much knew through various methods I was me again).

But still, no problems..

Now, my client is ready for production stages on a tenant that is fairly older but never had an Azure subscription. PoC environments were base-level resources for the skeleton, and now production environment is supposed to be a bit more robust.
When attempting to create VMs in pretty much any "reasonable" region, I receive the same error (... NotAvailableForSubscription). I can't even create the default base size 2vcpu 8gib

BUT

My PoC version 2 environment, created last month, and following the exact same layout, settings, resources, etc... with an already active VM.... can not only create another default base size, but when choosing a different size, has complete access to pretty much - everything...

Quotas between the two all line up perfectly (aside from what's used in PoC shows up as used in quota) but limitation are all the same...

WTH is going on?

Answer 4

I'm having this issue to. I only have 27 days left in my subscription an I got a free trial in hopes of performing some tests with Virtual Machines. I require assistance immediately.