Creation of Linux VM failing

Question

I created a free azure account and updated to Pay-as-you-go. Then I uses the CLI to create a resource group and tried to create a Linux VM by following this page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/quick-create-cli

PS C:\Users\xkou> az vm create --resource-group <my-resource-group-name> --image UbuntuLTS --admin-username azureuser --generate-ssh-keys
--name <vm-name>

I got the following error:

It is recommended to use parameter "--public-ip-sku Standard" to create new VM with Standard public IP. Please note that
the default public IP used for VM creation will be changed from Basic to Standard in the future.

{"error":{"code":"InvalidTemplateDeployment","message":"The template deployment failed with error: 'The resource with id: '/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/<resource-group>/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/<vm-name>' failed validation with message: 'The requested size for resource '/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/<resource-group>/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/<vm-name>' is currently not available in location 'eastus' zones '' for subscription '>subscription>'. Please try another size or deploy to
a different location or zones. See https://aka.ms/azureskunotavailable for details.'.'."}}

It looks after updating to pay-as-you-go, no of the virtual machine size skus are available for my subscription. Could you please let me know how I can resolve this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

@Xuekun Kou

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform, thanks for posting your query here.

For a quick test, I just tried following the document you shared and was able to successfully deploy a VM. Please see below screenshot.

Can you please try deploying a VM directly via Azure Portal and check if that succeeds. Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/quick-create-portal

If you don't see VM Sizes not getting displayed under your subscription as reported here, then it could be that your Subscription is still under free trail account and under process of getting upgraded to pay-as-you-go model.

It could be a temporary capacity issue in the region for the VM size you are trying. Try to deploy in another region and try different VM sizes and see if that helps.

Hope that helps.
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