Azure Virtual Machines
An Azure service that is used to provision Windows and Linux virtual machines.
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restrict access to azure portal on non-business hours/days(saturday&sunday)
Hi Team, How to restrict the users to access the azure portal on non-business hours/weekends(saturday&sunday) Thanks in advance Venu
asked 2019-12-13T09:43:35.417+00:00
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Venu Sunkara
6
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answered 2019-12-15T12:54:51.61+00:00
Sam Cogan
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Reputation points MVP
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Requirements for Virtual Machine to run properly
I am using VM with 64 GB of RAM but it is not properly working on my system, system is getting hanged every time when I open VM. Is this because of Internet Speed ( although internet speed is good ) or VM also depends upon system configuration ?
asked 2019-12-12T10:00:32.457+00:00
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Gourav Bais
1
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answered 2019-12-12T12:41:37.51+00:00
jakaruna-MSFT
596
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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What happens to an interrupted job?
I have a background in economics and auctions and understand the spot VM conceptually on that level, but I don't understand the practical implementation of it. In particular: If I am running an job on a spot VM and it is interrupted because my…
asked 2019-12-11T23:12:06.677+00:00
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Doug Bergman
1
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answered 2019-12-12T09:47:08.453+00:00
jakaruna-MSFT
596
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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not getting option to enter VM Credentials in Azure Migrate appliance configuration page
not getting option to enter VM Credentials in Azure Migrate appliance configuration page. Below option is grayed out. Discover applications and dependencies on VMs Provide VM credentials for discovery of applications and for dependency analysis on the…
asked 2019-12-10T15:45:55+00:00
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Krishna Kishore Baditala
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commented 2019-12-11T21:35:39.443+00:00
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KarishmaTiwari-MSFT
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Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Does Azure VM's for SUSE Linux cost based on per core licencing model ?
I have figured out that SUSE Linux SAP priority is calculated based on per-core licencing. But why is that for 8 cores and 32 cores price is the same. Look at my calculations bellow :
asked 2019-12-09T10:28:34.267+00:00
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Dileepa
6
Reputation points MVP
answered 2019-12-10T11:59:45.053+00:00
jakaruna-MSFT
596
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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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
1
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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
1
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commented 2019-12-06T17:52:15.037+00:00
KarishmaTiwari-MSFT
18,667
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2 answers
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
Reputation points
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
9,266
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
1
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answered 2019-12-06T01:26:39.98+00:00
KarishmaTiwari-MSFT
18,667
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
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
46
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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
1
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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
1 answer
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