Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
404 questions
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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…
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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
Reputation points
commented 2024-10-18T15:00:07.94+00:00
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Ganesh Patapati
810
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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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…
asked 2024-10-17T05:56:43.6833333+00:00
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Niket Kumar Singh
390
Reputation points
commented 2024-10-18T09:50:01.02+00:00
Niket Kumar Singh
390
Reputation points
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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
520
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers
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 2024-10-10T09:28:19.9433333+00:00
Sai Krishna Katakam
520
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer
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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
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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
Reputation points
commented 2024-10-09T02:37:05.06+00:00
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anashetty
335
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer
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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
asked 2024-10-06T20:42:18.2433333+00:00
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Marouf Ali
160
Reputation points
accepted 2024-10-07T12:39:05.12+00:00
Marouf Ali
160
Reputation points
1 answer
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…
asked 2024-10-02T14:30:46.8566667+00:00
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Flint
16
Reputation points
commented 2024-10-07T05:00:24.3266667+00:00
Sai Krishna Katakam
520
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer
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…
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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…
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Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
404 questions
1 answer
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…
asked 2024-09-25T21:04:52.53+00:00
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Andrew Sayman
0
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edited a comment 2024-09-30T14:22:24.7333333+00:00
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Lijitha B
330
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer
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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…
asked 2024-07-31T11:44:08.1633333+00:00
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Anil Kumar
520
Reputation points
commented 2024-09-30T10:59:34.7+00:00
Anil Kumar
520
Reputation points
1 answer
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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…
asked 2024-09-20T08:38:59.32+00:00
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Kristian Iliev
20
Reputation points
accepted 2024-09-27T14:11:19.5433333+00:00
Kristian Iliev
20
Reputation points
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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…
asked 2024-08-13T11:44:18.93+00:00
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Anna Shen
0
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
commented 2024-09-27T06:54:55.55+00:00
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Rahul Podila
105
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers
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…
asked 2022-02-07T16:16:01.67+00:00
Smita Mohapatra
41
Reputation points
answered 2024-09-25T21:04:33.8166667+00:00
Andrew Sayman
0
Reputation points
1 answer
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…
asked 2024-09-23T11:21:33.02+00:00
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Wootipong Consue (Office365)
0
Reputation points
commented 2024-09-25T17:32:42.9866667+00:00
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Mahesh Goud Juvvadi
1,065
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor