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Bicep resource definition

The virtualMachines resource type can be deployed with operations that target:

• Resource groups - See resource group deployment commands

For a list of changed properties in each API version, see change log.

Resource format

To create a Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines resource, add the following Bicep to your template.

resource symbolicname 'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines@2020-12-01' = {
  name: 'string'
  location: 'string'
  tags: {
    tagName1: 'tagValue1'
    tagName2: 'tagValue2'
  }
  extendedLocation: {
    name: 'string'
    type: 'EdgeZone'
  }
  identity: {
    type: 'string'
    userAssignedIdentities: {
      {customized property}: {}
    }
  }
  plan: {
    name: 'string'
    product: 'string'
    promotionCode: 'string'
    publisher: 'string'
  }
  properties: {
    additionalCapabilities: {
      ultraSSDEnabled: bool
    }
    availabilitySet: {
      id: 'string'
    }
    billingProfile: {
      maxPrice: json('decimal-as-string')
    }
    diagnosticsProfile: {
      bootDiagnostics: {
        enabled: bool
        storageUri: 'string'
      }
    }
    evictionPolicy: 'string'
    extensionsTimeBudget: 'string'
    hardwareProfile: {
      vmSize: 'string'
    }
    host: {
      id: 'string'
    }
    hostGroup: {
      id: 'string'
    }
    licenseType: 'string'
    networkProfile: {
      networkInterfaces: [
        {
          id: 'string'
          properties: {
            primary: bool
          }
        }
      ]
    }
    osProfile: {
      adminPassword: 'string'
      adminUsername: 'string'
      allowExtensionOperations: bool
      computerName: 'string'
      customData: 'string'
      linuxConfiguration: {
        disablePasswordAuthentication: bool
        patchSettings: {
          patchMode: 'string'
        }
        provisionVMAgent: bool
        ssh: {
          publicKeys: [
            {
              keyData: 'string'
              path: 'string'
            }
          ]
        }
      }
      requireGuestProvisionSignal: bool
      secrets: [
        {
          sourceVault: {
            id: 'string'
          }
          vaultCertificates: [
            {
              certificateStore: 'string'
              certificateUrl: 'string'
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
      windowsConfiguration: {
        additionalUnattendContent: [
          {
            componentName: 'Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup'
            content: 'string'
            passName: 'OobeSystem'
            settingName: 'string'
          }
        ]
        enableAutomaticUpdates: bool
        patchSettings: {
          enableHotpatching: bool
          patchMode: 'string'
        }
        provisionVMAgent: bool
        timeZone: 'string'
        winRM: {
          listeners: [
            {
              certificateUrl: 'string'
              protocol: 'string'
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
    platformFaultDomain: int
    priority: 'string'
    proximityPlacementGroup: {
      id: 'string'
    }
    securityProfile: {
      encryptionAtHost: bool
      securityType: 'TrustedLaunch'
      uefiSettings: {
        secureBootEnabled: bool
        vTpmEnabled: bool
      }
    }
    storageProfile: {
      dataDisks: [
        {
          caching: 'string'
          createOption: 'string'
          detachOption: 'ForceDetach'
          diskSizeGB: int
          image: {
            uri: 'string'
          }
          lun: int
          managedDisk: {
            diskEncryptionSet: {
              id: 'string'
            }
            id: 'string'
            storageAccountType: 'string'
          }
          name: 'string'
          toBeDetached: bool
          vhd: {
            uri: 'string'
          }
          writeAcceleratorEnabled: bool
        }
      ]
      imageReference: {
        id: 'string'
        offer: 'string'
        publisher: 'string'
        sku: 'string'
        version: 'string'
      }
      osDisk: {
        caching: 'string'
        createOption: 'string'
        diffDiskSettings: {
          option: 'Local'
          placement: 'string'
        }
        diskSizeGB: int
        encryptionSettings: {
          diskEncryptionKey: {
            secretUrl: 'string'
            sourceVault: {
              id: 'string'
            }
          }
          enabled: bool
          keyEncryptionKey: {
            keyUrl: 'string'
            sourceVault: {
              id: 'string'
            }
          }
        }
        image: {
          uri: 'string'
        }
        managedDisk: {
          diskEncryptionSet: {
            id: 'string'
          }
          id: 'string'
          storageAccountType: 'string'
        }
        name: 'string'
        osType: 'string'
        vhd: {
          uri: 'string'
        }
        writeAcceleratorEnabled: bool
      }
    }
    virtualMachineScaleSet: {
      id: 'string'
    }
  }
  zones: [
    'string' or int
  ]
}

Property values

virtualMachines

Name	Description	Value
name	The resource name	string (required) Character limit: 1-15 (Windows) 1-64 (Linux) Valid characters: Can't use spaces, control characters, or these characters: ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) = + _ [ ] { } \ | ; : . ' " , < > / ? Windows VMs can't include period or end with hyphen. Linux VMs can't end with period or hyphen.
location	Resource location	string (required)
tags	Resource tags	Dictionary of tag names and values. See Tags in templates
extendedLocation	The extended location of the Virtual Machine.	ExtendedLocation
identity	The identity of the virtual machine, if configured.	VirtualMachineIdentity
plan	Specifies information about the marketplace image used to create the virtual machine. This element is only used for marketplace images. Before you can use a marketplace image from an API, you must enable the image for programmatic use. In the Azure portal, find the marketplace image that you want to use and then click Want to deploy programmatically, Get Started ->. Enter any required information and then click Save.	Plan
properties	Describes the properties of a Virtual Machine.	VirtualMachineProperties
zones	The virtual machine zones.	Array of availability zones as string or int.

ExtendedLocation

Name	Description	Value
name	The name of the extended location.	string
type	The type of the extended location.	'EdgeZone'

VirtualMachineIdentity

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of identity used for the virtual machine. The type 'SystemAssigned, UserAssigned' includes both an implicitly created identity and a set of user assigned identities. The type 'None' will remove any identities from the virtual machine.	'None' 'SystemAssigned' 'SystemAssigned, UserAssigned' 'UserAssigned'
userAssignedIdentities	The list of user identities associated with the Virtual Machine. The user identity dictionary key references will be ARM resource ids in the form: '/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ManagedIdentity/userAssignedIdentities/{identityName}'.	VirtualMachineIdentityUserAssignedIdentities

VirtualMachineIdentityUserAssignedIdentities

Name	Description	Value
{customized property}		UserAssignedIdentitiesValue

UserAssignedIdentitiesValue

This object doesn't contain any properties to set during deployment. All properties are ReadOnly.

Plan

Name	Description	Value
name	The plan ID.	string
product	Specifies the product of the image from the marketplace. This is the same value as Offer under the imageReference element.	string
promotionCode	The promotion code.	string
publisher	The publisher ID.	string

VirtualMachineProperties

Name	Description	Value
additionalCapabilities	Specifies additional capabilities enabled or disabled on the virtual machine.	AdditionalCapabilities
availabilitySet	Specifies information about the availability set that the virtual machine should be assigned to. Virtual machines specified in the same availability set are allocated to different nodes to maximize availability. For more information about availability sets, see Manage the availability of virtual machines. For more information on Azure planned maintenance, see Planned maintenance for virtual machines in Azure Currently, a VM can only be added to availability set at creation time. The availability set to which the VM is being added should be under the same resource group as the availability set resource. An existing VM cannot be added to an availability set. This property cannot exist along with a non-null properties.virtualMachineScaleSet reference.	SubResource
billingProfile	Specifies the billing related details of a Azure Spot virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01.	BillingProfile
diagnosticsProfile	Specifies the boot diagnostic settings state. Minimum api-version: 2015-06-15.	DiagnosticsProfile
evictionPolicy	Specifies the eviction policy for the Azure Spot virtual machine and Azure Spot scale set. For Azure Spot virtual machines, both 'Deallocate' and 'Delete' are supported and the minimum api-version is 2019-03-01. For Azure Spot scale sets, both 'Deallocate' and 'Delete' are supported and the minimum api-version is 2017-10-30-preview.	'Deallocate' 'Delete'
extensionsTimeBudget	Specifies the time alloted for all extensions to start. The time duration should be between 15 minutes and 120 minutes (inclusive) and should be specified in ISO 8601 format. The default value is 90 minutes (PT1H30M). Minimum api-version: 2020-06-01	string
hardwareProfile	Specifies the hardware settings for the virtual machine.	HardwareProfile
host	Specifies information about the dedicated host that the virtual machine resides in. Minimum api-version: 2018-10-01.	SubResource
hostGroup	Specifies information about the dedicated host group that the virtual machine resides in. Minimum api-version: 2020-06-01. NOTE: User cannot specify both host and hostGroup properties.	SubResource
licenseType	Specifies that the image or disk that is being used was licensed on-premises. Possible values for Windows Server operating system are: Windows_Client Windows_Server Possible values for Linux Server operating system are: RHEL_BYOS (for RHEL) SLES_BYOS (for SUSE) For more information, see Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for Windows Server Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for Linux Server Minimum api-version: 2015-06-15	string
networkProfile	Specifies the network interfaces of the virtual machine.	NetworkProfile
osProfile	Specifies the operating system settings used while creating the virtual machine. Some of the settings cannot be changed once VM is provisioned.	OSProfile
platformFaultDomain	Specifies the scale set logical fault domain into which the Virtual Machine will be created. By default, the Virtual Machine will by automatically assigned to a fault domain that best maintains balance across available fault domains. {li}This is applicable only if the 'virtualMachineScaleSet' property of this Virtual Machine is set.{li}The Virtual Machine Scale Set that is referenced, must have 'platformFaultDomainCount' > 1.{li}This property cannot be updated once the Virtual Machine is created.{li}Fault domain assignment can be viewed in the Virtual Machine Instance View. Minimum api‐version: 2020‐12‐01	int
priority	Specifies the priority for the virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01	'Low' 'Regular' 'Spot'
proximityPlacementGroup	Specifies information about the proximity placement group that the virtual machine should be assigned to. Minimum api-version: 2018-04-01.	SubResource
securityProfile	Specifies the Security related profile settings for the virtual machine.	SecurityProfile
storageProfile	Specifies the storage settings for the virtual machine disks.	StorageProfile
virtualMachineScaleSet	Specifies information about the virtual machine scale set that the virtual machine should be assigned to. Virtual machines specified in the same virtual machine scale set are allocated to different nodes to maximize availability. Currently, a VM can only be added to virtual machine scale set at creation time. An existing VM cannot be added to a virtual machine scale set. This property cannot exist along with a non-null properties.availabilitySet reference. Minimum api‐version: 2019‐03‐01	SubResource

AdditionalCapabilities

Name	Description	Value
ultraSSDEnabled	The flag that enables or disables a capability to have one or more managed data disks with UltraSSD_LRS storage account type on the VM or VMSS. Managed disks with storage account type UltraSSD_LRS can be added to a virtual machine or virtual machine scale set only if this property is enabled.	bool

SubResource

Name	Description	Value
id	Resource Id	string

BillingProfile

Name	Description	Value
maxPrice	Specifies the maximum price you are willing to pay for a Azure Spot VM/VMSS. This price is in US Dollars. This price will be compared with the current Azure Spot price for the VM size. Also, the prices are compared at the time of create/update of Azure Spot VM/VMSS and the operation will only succeed if the maxPrice is greater than the current Azure Spot price. The maxPrice will also be used for evicting a Azure Spot VM/VMSS if the current Azure Spot price goes beyond the maxPrice after creation of VM/VMSS. Possible values are: - Any decimal value greater than zero. Example: 0.01538 -1 – indicates default price to be up-to on-demand. You can set the maxPrice to -1 to indicate that the Azure Spot VM/VMSS should not be evicted for price reasons. Also, the default max price is -1 if it is not provided by you. Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01. To specify a decimal value, use the json() function.	int or json decimal

DiagnosticsProfile

Name	Description	Value
bootDiagnostics	Boot Diagnostics is a debugging feature which allows you to view Console Output and Screenshot to diagnose VM status. You can easily view the output of your console log. Azure also enables you to see a screenshot of the VM from the hypervisor.	BootDiagnostics

BootDiagnostics

Name	Description	Value
enabled	Whether boot diagnostics should be enabled on the Virtual Machine.	bool
storageUri	Uri of the storage account to use for placing the console output and screenshot. If storageUri is not specified while enabling boot diagnostics, managed storage will be used.	string

HardwareProfile

Name	Description	Value
vmSize	Specifies the size of the virtual machine. The enum data type is currently deprecated and will be removed by December 23rd 2023. Recommended way to get the list of available sizes is using these APIs: List all available virtual machine sizes in an availability set List all available virtual machine sizes in a region List all available virtual machine sizes for resizing. For more information about virtual machine sizes, see Sizes for virtual machines. The available VM sizes depend on region and availability set.	'Basic_A0' 'Basic_A1' 'Basic_A2' 'Basic_A3' 'Basic_A4' 'Standard_A0' 'Standard_A1' 'Standard_A10' 'Standard_A11' 'Standard_A1_v2' 'Standard_A2' 'Standard_A2_v2' 'Standard_A2m_v2' 'Standard_A3' 'Standard_A4' 'Standard_A4_v2' 'Standard_A4m_v2' 'Standard_A5' 'Standard_A6' 'Standard_A7' 'Standard_A8' 'Standard_A8_v2' 'Standard_A8m_v2' 'Standard_A9' 'Standard_B1ms' 'Standard_B1s' 'Standard_B2ms' 'Standard_B2s' 'Standard_B4ms' 'Standard_B8ms' 'Standard_D1' 'Standard_D11' 'Standard_D11_v2' 'Standard_D12' 'Standard_D12_v2' 'Standard_D13' 'Standard_D13_v2' 'Standard_D14' 'Standard_D14_v2' 'Standard_D15_v2' 'Standard_D16_v3' 'Standard_D16s_v3' 'Standard_D1_v2' 'Standard_D2' 'Standard_D2_v2' 'Standard_D2_v3' 'Standard_D2s_v3' 'Standard_D3' 'Standard_D32_v3' 'Standard_D32s_v3' 'Standard_D3_v2' 'Standard_D4' 'Standard_D4_v2' 'Standard_D4_v3' 'Standard_D4s_v3' 'Standard_D5_v2' 'Standard_D64_v3' 'Standard_D64s_v3' 'Standard_D8_v3' 'Standard_D8s_v3' 'Standard_DS1' 'Standard_DS11' 'Standard_DS11_v2' 'Standard_DS12' 'Standard_DS12_v2' 'Standard_DS13' 'Standard_DS13-2_v2' 'Standard_DS13-4_v2' 'Standard_DS13_v2' 'Standard_DS14' 'Standard_DS14-4_v2' 'Standard_DS14-8_v2' 'Standard_DS14_v2' 'Standard_DS15_v2' 'Standard_DS1_v2' 'Standard_DS2' 'Standard_DS2_v2' 'Standard_DS3' 'Standard_DS3_v2' 'Standard_DS4' 'Standard_DS4_v2' 'Standard_DS5_v2' 'Standard_E16_v3' 'Standard_E16s_v3' 'Standard_E2_v3' 'Standard_E2s_v3' 'Standard_E32-16_v3' 'Standard_E32-8s_v3' 'Standard_E32_v3' 'Standard_E32s_v3' 'Standard_E4_v3' 'Standard_E4s_v3' 'Standard_E64-16s_v3' 'Standard_E64-32s_v3' 'Standard_E64_v3' 'Standard_E64s_v3' 'Standard_E8_v3' 'Standard_E8s_v3' 'Standard_F1' 'Standard_F16' 'Standard_F16s' 'Standard_F16s_v2' 'Standard_F1s' 'Standard_F2' 'Standard_F2s' 'Standard_F2s_v2' 'Standard_F32s_v2' 'Standard_F4' 'Standard_F4s' 'Standard_F4s_v2' 'Standard_F64s_v2' 'Standard_F72s_v2' 'Standard_F8' 'Standard_F8s' 'Standard_F8s_v2' 'Standard_G1' 'Standard_G2' 'Standard_G3' 'Standard_G4' 'Standard_G5' 'Standard_GS1' 'Standard_GS2' 'Standard_GS3' 'Standard_GS4' 'Standard_GS4-4' 'Standard_GS4-8' 'Standard_GS5' 'Standard_GS5-16' 'Standard_GS5-8' 'Standard_H16' 'Standard_H16m' 'Standard_H16mr' 'Standard_H16r' 'Standard_H8' 'Standard_H8m' 'Standard_L16s' 'Standard_L32s' 'Standard_L4s' 'Standard_L8s' 'Standard_M128-32ms' 'Standard_M128-64ms' 'Standard_M128ms' 'Standard_M128s' 'Standard_M64-16ms' 'Standard_M64-32ms' 'Standard_M64ms' 'Standard_M64s' 'Standard_NC12' 'Standard_NC12s_v2' 'Standard_NC12s_v3' 'Standard_NC24' 'Standard_NC24r' 'Standard_NC24rs_v2' 'Standard_NC24rs_v3' 'Standard_NC24s_v2' 'Standard_NC24s_v3' 'Standard_NC6' 'Standard_NC6s_v2' 'Standard_NC6s_v3' 'Standard_ND12s' 'Standard_ND24rs' 'Standard_ND24s' 'Standard_ND6s' 'Standard_NV12' 'Standard_NV24' 'Standard_NV6'

NetworkProfile

Name	Description	Value
networkInterfaces	Specifies the list of resource Ids for the network interfaces associated with the virtual machine.	NetworkInterfaceReference[]

NetworkInterfaceReference

Name	Description	Value
id	Resource Id	string
properties	Describes a network interface reference properties.	NetworkInterfaceReferenceProperties

NetworkInterfaceReferenceProperties

Name	Description	Value
primary	Specifies the primary network interface in case the virtual machine has more than 1 network interface.	bool

OSProfile

Name	Description	Value
adminPassword	Specifies the password of the administrator account. Minimum-length (Windows): 8 characters Minimum-length (Linux): 6 characters Max-length (Windows): 123 characters Max-length (Linux): 72 characters Complexity requirements: 3 out of 4 conditions below need to be fulfilled Has lower characters Has upper characters Has a digit Has a special character (Regex match [\W_]) Disallowed values: "abc@123", "P@$$w0rd", "P@ssw0rd", "P@ssword123", "Pa$$word", "pass@word1", "Password!", "Password1", "Password22", "iloveyou!" For resetting the password, see How to reset the Remote Desktop service or its login password in a Windows VM For resetting root password, see Manage users, SSH, and check or repair disks on Azure Linux VMs using the VMAccess Extension	string Constraints: Sensitive value. Pass in as a secure parameter.
adminUsername	Specifies the name of the administrator account. This property cannot be updated after the VM is created. Windows-only restriction: Cannot end in "." Disallowed values: "administrator", "admin", "user", "user1", "test", "user2", "test1", "user3", "admin1", "1", "123", "a", "actuser", "adm", "admin2", "aspnet", "backup", "console", "david", "guest", "john", "owner", "root", "server", "sql", "support", "support_388945a0", "sys", "test2", "test3", "user4", "user5". Minimum-length (Linux): 1 character Max-length (Linux): 64 characters Max-length (Windows): 20 characters {li} For root access to the Linux VM, see Using root privileges on Linux virtual machines in Azure {li} For a list of built-in system users on Linux that should not be used in this field, see Selecting User Names for Linux on Azure	string
allowExtensionOperations	Specifies whether extension operations should be allowed on the virtual machine. This may only be set to False when no extensions are present on the virtual machine.	bool
computerName	Specifies the host OS name of the virtual machine. This name cannot be updated after the VM is created. Max-length (Windows): 15 characters Max-length (Linux): 64 characters. For naming conventions and restrictions see Azure infrastructure services implementation guidelines.	string
customData	Specifies a base-64 encoded string of custom data. The base-64 encoded string is decoded to a binary array that is saved as a file on the Virtual Machine. The maximum length of the binary array is 65535 bytes. Note: Do not pass any secrets or passwords in customData property This property cannot be updated after the VM is created. customData is passed to the VM to be saved as a file, for more information see Custom Data on Azure VMs For using cloud-init for your Linux VM, see Using cloud-init to customize a Linux VM during creation	string
linuxConfiguration	Specifies the Linux operating system settings on the virtual machine. For a list of supported Linux distributions, see Linux on Azure-Endorsed Distributions For running non-endorsed distributions, see Information for Non-Endorsed Distributions.	LinuxConfiguration
requireGuestProvisionSignal	Specifies whether the guest provision signal is required to infer provision success of the virtual machine. Note: This property is for private testing only, and all customers must not set the property to false.	bool
secrets	Specifies set of certificates that should be installed onto the virtual machine.	VaultSecretGroup[]
windowsConfiguration	Specifies Windows operating system settings on the virtual machine.	WindowsConfiguration

LinuxConfiguration

Name	Description	Value
disablePasswordAuthentication	Specifies whether password authentication should be disabled.	bool
patchSettings	[Preview Feature] Specifies settings related to VM Guest Patching on Linux.	LinuxPatchSettings
provisionVMAgent	Indicates whether virtual machine agent should be provisioned on the virtual machine. When this property is not specified in the request body, default behavior is to set it to true. This will ensure that VM Agent is installed on the VM so that extensions can be added to the VM later.	bool
ssh	Specifies the ssh key configuration for a Linux OS.	SshConfiguration

LinuxPatchSettings

Name	Description	Value
patchMode	Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patching to IaaS virtual machine. Possible values are: ImageDefault - The virtual machine's default patching configuration is used. AutomaticByPlatform - The virtual machine will be automatically updated by the platform. The property provisionVMAgent must be true	'AutomaticByPlatform' 'ImageDefault'

SshConfiguration

Name	Description	Value
publicKeys	The list of SSH public keys used to authenticate with linux based VMs.	SshPublicKey[]

SshPublicKey

Name	Description	Value
keyData	SSH public key certificate used to authenticate with the VM through ssh. The key needs to be at least 2048-bit and in ssh-rsa format. For creating ssh keys, see Create SSH keys on Linux and Mac for Linux VMs in Azure.	string
path	Specifies the full path on the created VM where ssh public key is stored. If the file already exists, the specified key is appended to the file. Example: /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys	string

VaultSecretGroup

Name	Description	Value
sourceVault	The relative URL of the Key Vault containing all of the certificates in VaultCertificates.	SubResource
vaultCertificates	The list of key vault references in SourceVault which contain certificates.	VaultCertificate[]

VaultCertificate

Name	Description	Value
certificateStore	For Windows VMs, specifies the certificate store on the Virtual Machine to which the certificate should be added. The specified certificate store is implicitly in the LocalMachine account. For Linux VMs, the certificate file is placed under the /var/lib/waagent directory, with the file name <UppercaseThumbprint>.crt for the X509 certificate file and <UppercaseThumbprint>.prv for private key. Both of these files are .pem formatted.	string
certificateUrl	This is the URL of a certificate that has been uploaded to Key Vault as a secret. For adding a secret to the Key Vault, see Add a key or secret to the key vault. In this case, your certificate needs to be It is the Base64 encoding of the following JSON Object which is encoded in UTF-8: { "data":"{Base64-encoded-certificate}", "dataType":"pfx", "password":"{pfx-file-password}" }	string

WindowsConfiguration

Name	Description	Value
additionalUnattendContent	Specifies additional base-64 encoded XML formatted information that can be included in the Unattend.xml file, which is used by Windows Setup.	AdditionalUnattendContent[]
enableAutomaticUpdates	Indicates whether Automatic Updates is enabled for the Windows virtual machine. Default value is true. For virtual machine scale sets, this property can be updated and updates will take effect on OS reprovisioning.	bool
patchSettings	[Preview Feature] Specifies settings related to VM Guest Patching on Windows.	PatchSettings
provisionVMAgent	Indicates whether virtual machine agent should be provisioned on the virtual machine. When this property is not specified in the request body, default behavior is to set it to true. This will ensure that VM Agent is installed on the VM so that extensions can be added to the VM later.	bool
timeZone	Specifies the time zone of the virtual machine. e.g. "Pacific Standard Time". Possible values can be TimeZoneInfo.Id value from time zones returned by TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones.	string
winRM	Specifies the Windows Remote Management listeners. This enables remote Windows PowerShell.	WinRMConfiguration

AdditionalUnattendContent

Name	Description	Value
componentName	The component name. Currently, the only allowable value is Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup.	'Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup'
content	Specifies the XML formatted content that is added to the unattend.xml file for the specified path and component. The XML must be less than 4KB and must include the root element for the setting or feature that is being inserted.	string
passName	The pass name. Currently, the only allowable value is OobeSystem.	'OobeSystem'
settingName	Specifies the name of the setting to which the content applies. Possible values are: FirstLogonCommands and AutoLogon.	'AutoLogon' 'FirstLogonCommands'

PatchSettings

Name	Description	Value
enableHotpatching	Enables customers to patch their Azure VMs without requiring a reboot. For enableHotpatching, the 'provisionVMAgent' must be set to true and 'patchMode' must be set to 'AutomaticByPlatform'.	bool
patchMode	Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patching to IaaS virtual machine. Possible values are: Manual - You control the application of patches to a virtual machine. You do this by applying patches manually inside the VM. In this mode, automatic updates are disabled; the property WindowsConfiguration.enableAutomaticUpdates must be false AutomaticByOS - The virtual machine will automatically be updated by the OS. The property WindowsConfiguration.enableAutomaticUpdates must be true. AutomaticByPlatform - the virtual machine will automatically updated by the platform. The properties provisionVMAgent and WindowsConfiguration.enableAutomaticUpdates must be true	'AutomaticByOS' 'AutomaticByPlatform' 'Manual'

WinRMConfiguration

Name	Description	Value
listeners	The list of Windows Remote Management listeners	WinRMListener[]

WinRMListener

Name	Description	Value
certificateUrl	This is the URL of a certificate that has been uploaded to Key Vault as a secret. For adding a secret to the Key Vault, see Add a key or secret to the key vault. In this case, your certificate needs to be It is the Base64 encoding of the following JSON Object which is encoded in UTF-8: { "data":"{Base64-encoded-certificate}", "dataType":"pfx", "password":"{pfx-file-password}" }	string
protocol	Specifies the protocol of WinRM listener. Possible values are: http https	'Http' 'Https'

SecurityProfile

Name	Description	Value
encryptionAtHost	This property can be used by user in the request to enable or disable the Host Encryption for the virtual machine or virtual machine scale set. This will enable the encryption for all the disks including Resource/Temp disk at host itself. Default: The Encryption at host will be disabled unless this property is set to true for the resource.	bool
securityType	Specifies the SecurityType of the virtual machine. It is set as TrustedLaunch to enable UefiSettings. Default: UefiSettings will not be enabled unless this property is set as TrustedLaunch.	'TrustedLaunch'
uefiSettings	Specifies the security settings like secure boot and vTPM used while creating the virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01	UefiSettings

UefiSettings

Name	Description	Value
secureBootEnabled	Specifies whether secure boot should be enabled on the virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01	bool
vTpmEnabled	Specifies whether vTPM should be enabled on the virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01	bool

StorageProfile

Name	Description	Value
dataDisks	Specifies the parameters that are used to add a data disk to a virtual machine. For more information about disks, see About disks and VHDs for Azure virtual machines.	DataDisk[]
imageReference	Specifies information about the image to use. You can specify information about platform images, marketplace images, or virtual machine images. This element is required when you want to use a platform image, marketplace image, or virtual machine image, but is not used in other creation operations.	ImageReference
osDisk	Specifies information about the operating system disk used by the virtual machine. For more information about disks, see About disks and VHDs for Azure virtual machines.	OSDisk

DataDisk

Name	Description	Value
caching	Specifies the caching requirements. Possible values are: None ReadOnly ReadWrite Default: None for Standard storage. ReadOnly for Premium storage	'None' 'ReadOnly' 'ReadWrite'
createOption	Specifies how the virtual machine should be created. Possible values are: Attach \u2013 This value is used when you are using a specialized disk to create the virtual machine. FromImage \u2013 This value is used when you are using an image to create the virtual machine. If you are using a platform image, you also use the imageReference element described above. If you are using a marketplace image, you also use the plan element previously described.	'Attach' 'Empty' 'FromImage' (required)
detachOption	Specifies the detach behavior to be used while detaching a disk or which is already in the process of detachment from the virtual machine. Supported values: ForceDetach. detachOption: ForceDetach is applicable only for managed data disks. If a previous detachment attempt of the data disk did not complete due to an unexpected failure from the virtual machine and the disk is still not released then use force-detach as a last resort option to detach the disk forcibly from the VM. All writes might not have been flushed when using this detach behavior. This feature is still in preview mode and is not supported for VirtualMachineScaleSet. To force-detach a data disk update toBeDetached to 'true' along with setting detachOption: 'ForceDetach'.	'ForceDetach'
diskSizeGB	Specifies the size of an empty data disk in gigabytes. This element can be used to overwrite the size of the disk in a virtual machine image. This value cannot be larger than 1023 GB	int
image	The source user image virtual hard disk. The virtual hard disk will be copied before being attached to the virtual machine. If SourceImage is provided, the destination virtual hard drive must not exist.	VirtualHardDisk
lun	Specifies the logical unit number of the data disk. This value is used to identify data disks within the VM and therefore must be unique for each data disk attached to a VM.	int (required)
managedDisk	The managed disk parameters.	ManagedDiskParameters
name	The disk name.	string
toBeDetached	Specifies whether the data disk is in process of detachment from the VirtualMachine/VirtualMachineScaleset	bool
vhd	The virtual hard disk.	VirtualHardDisk
writeAcceleratorEnabled	Specifies whether writeAccelerator should be enabled or disabled on the disk.	bool

VirtualHardDisk

Name	Description	Value
uri	Specifies the virtual hard disk's uri.	string

ManagedDiskParameters

Name	Description	Value
diskEncryptionSet	Specifies the customer managed disk encryption set resource id for the managed disk.	DiskEncryptionSetParameters
id	Resource Id	string
storageAccountType	Specifies the storage account type for the managed disk. Managed OS disk storage account type can only be set when you create the scale set. NOTE: UltraSSD_LRS can only be used with data disks, it cannot be used with OS Disk.	'Premium_LRS' 'Premium_ZRS' 'StandardSSD_LRS' 'StandardSSD_ZRS' 'Standard_LRS' 'UltraSSD_LRS'

DiskEncryptionSetParameters

Name	Description	Value
id	Resource Id	string

ImageReference

Name	Description	Value
id	Resource Id	string
offer	Specifies the offer of the platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine.	string
publisher	The image publisher.	string
sku	The image SKU.	string
version	Specifies the version of the platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine. The allowed formats are Major.Minor.Build or 'latest'. Major, Minor, and Build are decimal numbers. Specify 'latest' to use the latest version of an image available at deploy time. Even if you use 'latest', the VM image will not automatically update after deploy time even if a new version becomes available.	string

OSDisk

Name	Description	Value
caching	Specifies the caching requirements. Possible values are: None ReadOnly ReadWrite Default: None for Standard storage. ReadOnly for Premium storage.	'None' 'ReadOnly' 'ReadWrite'
createOption	Specifies how the virtual machine should be created. Possible values are: Attach \u2013 This value is used when you are using a specialized disk to create the virtual machine. FromImage \u2013 This value is used when you are using an image to create the virtual machine. If you are using a platform image, you also use the imageReference element described above. If you are using a marketplace image, you also use the plan element previously described.	'Attach' 'Empty' 'FromImage' (required)
diffDiskSettings	Specifies the ephemeral Disk Settings for the operating system disk used by the virtual machine.	DiffDiskSettings
diskSizeGB	Specifies the size of an empty data disk in gigabytes. This element can be used to overwrite the size of the disk in a virtual machine image. This value cannot be larger than 1023 GB	int
encryptionSettings	Specifies the encryption settings for the OS Disk. Minimum api-version: 2015-06-15	DiskEncryptionSettings
image	The source user image virtual hard disk. The virtual hard disk will be copied before being attached to the virtual machine. If SourceImage is provided, the destination virtual hard drive must not exist.	VirtualHardDisk
managedDisk	The managed disk parameters.	ManagedDiskParameters
name	The disk name.	string
osType	This property allows you to specify the type of the OS that is included in the disk if creating a VM from user-image or a specialized VHD. Possible values are: Windows Linux	'Linux' 'Windows'
vhd	The virtual hard disk.	VirtualHardDisk
writeAcceleratorEnabled	Specifies whether writeAccelerator should be enabled or disabled on the disk.	bool

DiffDiskSettings

Name	Description	Value
option	Specifies the ephemeral disk settings for operating system disk.	'Local'
placement	Specifies the ephemeral disk placement for operating system disk. Possible values are: CacheDisk ResourceDisk Default: CacheDisk if one is configured for the VM size otherwise ResourceDisk is used. Refer to VM size documentation for Windows VM at /azure/virtual-machines/windows/sizes and Linux VM at /azure/virtual-machines/linux/sizes to check which VM sizes exposes a cache disk.	'CacheDisk' 'ResourceDisk'

DiskEncryptionSettings

Name	Description	Value
diskEncryptionKey	Specifies the location of the disk encryption key, which is a Key Vault Secret.	KeyVaultSecretReference
enabled	Specifies whether disk encryption should be enabled on the virtual machine.	bool
keyEncryptionKey	Specifies the location of the key encryption key in Key Vault.	KeyVaultKeyReference

KeyVaultSecretReference

Name	Description	Value
secretUrl	The URL referencing a secret in a Key Vault.	string (required)
sourceVault	The relative URL of the Key Vault containing the secret.	SubResource (required)

KeyVaultKeyReference

Name	Description	Value
keyUrl	The URL referencing a key encryption key in Key Vault.	string (required)
sourceVault	The relative URL of the Key Vault containing the key.	SubResource (required)

Quickstart templates

The following quickstart templates deploy this resource type.

Template	Description
Deploy a simple Linux VM and update private IP to static	This template allows you to deploy a simple Linux VM using Ubuntu from the marketplace. This will deploy a VNET, Subnet, and an A1 size VM in the resource group location with a dynamically assigned IP address and then convert it to static IP.
Create VMs in Availability Sets using Resource Loops	Create 2-5 VMs in Availability Sets using Resource Loops. The VMs can be Unbuntu or Windows with a maximum of 5 VMs since this sample uses a single storageAccount
Multi VM Template with Managed Disk	This template will create N number of VM's with managed disks, public IPs and network interfaces. It will create the VMs in a single Availability Set. They will be provisioned in a Virtual Network which will also be created as part of the deployment
Install a file on a Windows VM	This template allows you to deploy a Windows VM and run a custom PowerShell script to install a file on that VM.
Deploy a Virtual Machine with Custom Data	This template allows you to create a Virtual Machine with Custom Data passed down to the VM. This template also deploys a Storage Account, Virtual Network, Public IP addresses and a Network Interface.
Deploy a Premium Windows VM with diagnostics	This template allows you to deploy a Premium Windows VM using a few different options for the Windows version, using the latest patched version.
Create a VM in a VNET in different Resource Group	This template creates a VM in a VNET which is in a different Resource Group
Join a VM to an existing domain	This template demonstrates domain join to a private AD domain up in cloud.
Create a VM with a dynamic selection of data disks	This template allows the user to select the number of data disks they'd like to add to the VM.
Create a VM from a EfficientIP VHD	This template creates a VM from a EfficientIP VHD and let you connect it to an existing VNET that can reside in another Resource Group then the virtual machine
Create a VM from User Image	This template allows you to create a Virtual Machines from a User image. This template also deploys a Virtual Network, Public IP addresses and a Network Interface.
Create a VM in a new or existing vnet from a generalized VHD	This template creates a VM from a generalized VHD and let you connect it to a new or existing VNET that can reside in another Resource Group than the virtual machine
CentOS/UbuntuServer Auto Dynamic Disks & Docker 1.12(cs)	This is a common template for creating single instance CentOS 7.2/7.1/6.5 or Ubuntu Server 16.04.0-LTS with configurable number of data disks (configurable sizes). Maximum 16 disks can be mentioned in the portal parameters and maximum size of each disk should be less than 1023 GB. The MDADM RAID0 Array is automounted and survives restarts. Latest Docker 1.12(cs3) (Swarm), docker-compose 1.9.0 & docker-machine 0.8.2 is available for usage from user azure-cli is auto running as a docker container. This single instance template is an offshoot of the HPC/GPU Clusters Template @ https://github.com/azurebigcompute/BigComputeBench
GitLab Omnibus	This template simplifies the deployment of GitLab Omnibus on a Virtual Machine with a public DNS, leveraging the public IP's DNS. It utilizes the Standard_F8s_v2 instance size, which aligns with reference architecture and supports up to 1000 users (20 RPS). The instance is pre-configured to use HTTPS with a Let's Encrypt certificate for secure connections.
Linux VM with Serial Output	This template creates a simple Linux VM with minimal parameters and serial/console configured to output to storage
Deploy a simple Windows VM with monitoring and diagnostics	This template allows you to deploy a simple Windows VM along with the diagnostics extension which enables monitoring and diagnostics for the VM
Deploy a Linux or Windows VM with MSI	This template allows you to deploy a Linux or Windows VM with a Managed Service Identity.
Terraform on Azure	This template allows you to deploy a Terraform workstation as a Linux VM with MSI.
Linux VM with MSI Accessing Storage	This template deploys a linux VM with a system assigned managed identity that has access to a storage account in a different resource group.
Create a VM from a Windows Image with 4 Empty Data Disks	This template allows you to create a Windows Virtual Machine from a specified image. It also attaches 4 empty data disks. Note that you can specify the size of the empty data disks.
Deploy a VM with multiple IPs	This template allows you to deploy a VM with 3 IP configurations. This template will deploy a Linux/Windows VM called myVM1 with 3 IP configurations: IPConfig-1, IPConfig-2 and IPConfig-3, respectively.
Deploy a Linux VM (Ubuntu) with multiple NICs	This template creates a VNet with multiple subnets and deploys a Ubuntu VM with multiple NICs
Virtual Machine with Conditional Resources	This template allows deploying a linux VM using new or existing resources for the Virtual Network, Storage and Public IP Address. It also allows for choosing between SSH and Password authenticate. The templates uses conditions and logic functions to remove the need for nested deployments.
Create VM from existing VHDs and connect it to existingVNET	This template creates a VM from VHDs (OS + data disk) and let you connect it to an existing VNET that can reside in another Resource Group then the virtual machine
Push a certificate onto a Windows VM	Push a certificate onto a Windows VM. Create the Key Vault using the template at https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/templates/101-create-key-vault
Secure VM password with Key Vault	This template allows you to deploy a simple Windows VM by retrieving the password that is stored in a Key Vault. Therefore the password is never put in plain text in the template parameter file
Deploy a simple FreeBSD VM in resource group location	This template allows you to deploy a simple FreeBSD VM using a few different options for the FreeBSD version, using the latest patched version. This will deploy in resource group location on a D1 VM Size.
Deploy a simple Ubuntu Linux VM 20.04-LTS	This template deploys an Ubuntu Server with a few options for the VM. You can provide the VM Name, OS Version, VM size, and admin username and password. As default the VM size is Standard_D2s_v3 and OS version is 20.04-LTS.
Deploy a simple Linux VM with Accelerated Networking	This template allows you to deploy a simple Linux VM with Accelerated Networking using Ubuntu version 18.04-LTS with the latest patched version. This will deploy a D3_v2 size VM in the resource group location and return the FQDN of the VM.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM (RHEL 7.8)	This template will deploy a Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM (RHEL 7.8), using the Pay-As-You-Go RHEL VM image for the selected version on Standard D1 VM in the location of your chosen resource group with an additional 100 GiB data disk attached to the VM. Additional charges apply to this image - consult Azure VM Pricing page for details.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM (RHEL 7.8 unmanaged)	This template will deploy a Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM (RHEL 7.8), using the Pay-As-You-Go RHEL VM image for the selected version on Standard A1_v2 VM in the location of your chosen resource group with an additional 100 GiB data disk attached to the VM. Additional charges apply to this image - consult Azure VM Pricing page for details.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server VM (SLES 12)	This template will allow you to deploy a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server VM (SLES 12), using the Pay-As-You-Go SLES VM image for the selected version on Standard D1 VM in the location of your chosen resource group with an additional 100 GiB data disk attached to the VM. Additional charges apply to this image - consult Azure VM Pricing page for details.
Deploy a simple Windows VM	This template allows you to deploy a simple Windows VM using a few different options for the Windows version, using the latest patched version. This will deploy an A2 size VM in the resource group location and return the FQDN of the VM.
Deploy a Windows Server VM with Visual Studio	This template deploys a Windows Server VM with Visual Code Studio Community 2019, with a few options for the VM. You can provide the name of VM, the admin username and admin password.
Deploy a VM into an Availability Zone	This template allows you to deploy a simple VM (Windows or Ubuntu), using the latest patched version. This will deploy a A2_v2 size VM in the location specified and return the FQDN of the VM.
Create a VM in a new or existing vnet from a custom VHD	This template creates a VM from a specialized VHD and let you connect it to a new or existing VNET that can reside in another Resource Group than the virtual machine
SQL Server 2014 SP2 Enterprise with Auto Backup	This template will create a SQL Server 2014 SP2 Enterprise edition with Auto Backup feature enabled
SQL Server 2014 SP1 Enterprise with Auto Patching	This template will create a SQL Server 2014 SP1 Enterprise edition with Auto Patching feature enabled.
SQL Server 2014 SP1 Enterprise with Azure Key Vault	This template will create a SQL Server 2014 SP1 Enterprise edition with Azure Key Vault Integration feature enabled.
Deploy a Virtual Machine with SSH rsa public key	This template allows you to create a Virtual Machine with SSH rsa public key
Deploy a simple Windows VM with tags	This template will deploy a D2_v3 Windows VM, NIC, Storage Account, Virtual Network, Public IP Address, and Network Security Group. The tag object is created in the variables and will be applied on all resources, where applicable.
Deploy a trusted launch capable Linux virtual machine	This template allows you to deploy a trusted launch capable Linux virtual machine using a few different options for the Linux version, using the latest patched version. If you enable Secureboot and vTPM, the Guest Attestation extension will be installed on your VM. This extension will perform remote attestation by the cloud. By default, this will deploy an Standard_D2_v3 size virtual machine in the resource group location and return the FQDN of the virtual machine.
Deploy a trusted launch capable Windows virtual machine	This template allows you to deploy a trusted launch capable Windows virtual machine using a few different options for the Windows version, using the latest patched version. If you enable Secureboot and vTPM, the Guest Attestation extension will be installed on your VM. This extension will perform remote attestation by the cloud. By default, this will deploy an Standard_D2_v3 size virtual machine in the resource group location and return the FQDN of the virtual machine.
Deploy a Virtual Machine with User Data	This template allows you to create a Virtual Machine with User Data passed down to the VM. This template also deploys a Virtual Network, Public IP addresses, and a Network Interface.
Deploy a Windows VM with Windows Admin Center extension	This template allows you to deploy a Windows VM with Windows Admin Center extension to manage the VM directly from Azure Portal.
Windows VM with Azure secure baseline	The template creates a virtual machine running Windows Server in a new virtual network, with a public IP address. Once the machine has deployed, the guest configuration extension is installed and the Azure secure baseline for Windows Server is applied. If the configuration of the machines drifts, you can re-apply the settings by deploying the template again.
Deploy a Windows VM with a variable number of data disks	This template allows you to deploy a simple VM and specify the number of data disks at deploy time using a parameter. Note that the number and size of data disks is bound by the VM size. The VM size for this sample is Standard_DS4_v2 with a default of 16 data disks.
Windows Server VM with SSH	Deploy a single Windows VM with Open SSH enabled so that you can connect through SSH using key-based authentication.
Create a data management gateway and install on an Azure VM	This template deploys a virtual machine and creates a workable data management gateway
Virtual machine with an RDP port	Creates a virtual machine and creates a NAT rule for RDP to the VM in load balancer
Create a VM with multiple empty StandardSSD_LRS Data Disks	This template allows you to create a Windows Virtual Machine from a specified image. It also attaches multiple empty StandardSSD data disks by default. Note that you can specify the size and the Storage type (Standard_LRS, StandardSSD_LRS and Premium_LRS) of the empty data disks.
Self-host Integration Runtime on Azure VMs	This template creates a selfhost integration runtime and registers it on Azure virtual machines
Add multiple VMs into a Virtual Machine Scale Set	This template will create N number of VM's with managed disks, public IPs and network interfaces. It will create the VMs in a Virtual Machine Scale Set in Flexible Orchestration mode. They will be provisioned in a Virtual Network which will also be created as part of the deployment
Deploy a VM Scale Set with Linux VMs behind ILB	This template allows you to deploy a VM Scale Set of Linux VMs using the latest patched version of Ubuntu Linux 15.10 or 14.04.4-LTS. These VMs are behind an internal load balancer with NAT rules for ssh connections.

ARM template resource definition

The virtualMachines resource type can be deployed with operations that target:

• Resource groups - See resource group deployment commands

For a list of changed properties in each API version, see change log.

Resource format

To create a Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines resource, add the following JSON to your template.

{
  "type": "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines",
  "apiVersion": "2020-12-01",
  "name": "string",
  "location": "string",
  "tags": {
    "tagName1": "tagValue1",
    "tagName2": "tagValue2"
  },
  "extendedLocation": {
    "name": "string",
    "type": "EdgeZone"
  },
  "identity": {
    "type": "string",
    "userAssignedIdentities": {
      "{customized property}": {}
    }
  },
  "plan": {
    "name": "string",
    "product": "string",
    "promotionCode": "string",
    "publisher": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
    "additionalCapabilities": {
      "ultraSSDEnabled": "bool"
    },
    "availabilitySet": {
      "id": "string"
    },
    "billingProfile": {
      "maxPrice": "[json('decimal-as-string')]"
    },
    "diagnosticsProfile": {
      "bootDiagnostics": {
        "enabled": "bool",
        "storageUri": "string"
      }
    },
    "evictionPolicy": "string",
    "extensionsTimeBudget": "string",
    "hardwareProfile": {
      "vmSize": "string"
    },
    "host": {
      "id": "string"
    },
    "hostGroup": {
      "id": "string"
    },
    "licenseType": "string",
    "networkProfile": {
      "networkInterfaces": [
        {
          "id": "string",
          "properties": {
            "primary": "bool"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "osProfile": {
      "adminPassword": "string",
      "adminUsername": "string",
      "allowExtensionOperations": "bool",
      "computerName": "string",
      "customData": "string",
      "linuxConfiguration": {
        "disablePasswordAuthentication": "bool",
        "patchSettings": {
          "patchMode": "string"
        },
        "provisionVMAgent": "bool",
        "ssh": {
          "publicKeys": [
            {
              "keyData": "string",
              "path": "string"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "requireGuestProvisionSignal": "bool",
      "secrets": [
        {
          "sourceVault": {
            "id": "string"
          },
          "vaultCertificates": [
            {
              "certificateStore": "string",
              "certificateUrl": "string"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "windowsConfiguration": {
        "additionalUnattendContent": [
          {
            "componentName": "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup",
            "content": "string",
            "passName": "OobeSystem",
            "settingName": "string"
          }
        ],
        "enableAutomaticUpdates": "bool",
        "patchSettings": {
          "enableHotpatching": "bool",
          "patchMode": "string"
        },
        "provisionVMAgent": "bool",
        "timeZone": "string",
        "winRM": {
          "listeners": [
            {
              "certificateUrl": "string",
              "protocol": "string"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    "platformFaultDomain": "int",
    "priority": "string",
    "proximityPlacementGroup": {
      "id": "string"
    },
    "securityProfile": {
      "encryptionAtHost": "bool",
      "securityType": "TrustedLaunch",
      "uefiSettings": {
        "secureBootEnabled": "bool",
        "vTpmEnabled": "bool"
      }
    },
    "storageProfile": {
      "dataDisks": [
        {
          "caching": "string",
          "createOption": "string",
          "detachOption": "ForceDetach",
          "diskSizeGB": "int",
          "image": {
            "uri": "string"
          },
          "lun": "int",
          "managedDisk": {
            "diskEncryptionSet": {
              "id": "string"
            },
            "id": "string",
            "storageAccountType": "string"
          },
          "name": "string",
          "toBeDetached": "bool",
          "vhd": {
            "uri": "string"
          },
          "writeAcceleratorEnabled": "bool"
        }
      ],
      "imageReference": {
        "id": "string",
        "offer": "string",
        "publisher": "string",
        "sku": "string",
        "version": "string"
      },
      "osDisk": {
        "caching": "string",
        "createOption": "string",
        "diffDiskSettings": {
          "option": "Local",
          "placement": "string"
        },
        "diskSizeGB": "int",
        "encryptionSettings": {
          "diskEncryptionKey": {
            "secretUrl": "string",
            "sourceVault": {
              "id": "string"
            }
          },
          "enabled": "bool",
          "keyEncryptionKey": {
            "keyUrl": "string",
            "sourceVault": {
              "id": "string"
            }
          }
        },
        "image": {
          "uri": "string"
        },
        "managedDisk": {
          "diskEncryptionSet": {
            "id": "string"
          },
          "id": "string",
          "storageAccountType": "string"
        },
        "name": "string",
        "osType": "string",
        "vhd": {
          "uri": "string"
        },
        "writeAcceleratorEnabled": "bool"
      }
    },
    "virtualMachineScaleSet": {
      "id": "string"
    }
  },
  "zones": [ "string" or int ]
}

Property values

virtualMachines

Name	Description	Value
type	The resource type	'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines'
apiVersion	The resource api version	'2020-12-01'
name	The resource name	string (required) Character limit: 1-15 (Windows) 1-64 (Linux) Valid characters: Can't use spaces, control characters, or these characters: ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) = + _ [ ] { } \ | ; : . ' " , < > / ? Windows VMs can't include period or end with hyphen. Linux VMs can't end with period or hyphen.
location	Resource location	string (required)
tags	Resource tags	Dictionary of tag names and values. See Tags in templates
extendedLocation	The extended location of the Virtual Machine.	ExtendedLocation
identity	The identity of the virtual machine, if configured.	VirtualMachineIdentity
plan	Specifies information about the marketplace image used to create the virtual machine. This element is only used for marketplace images. Before you can use a marketplace image from an API, you must enable the image for programmatic use. In the Azure portal, find the marketplace image that you want to use and then click Want to deploy programmatically, Get Started ->. Enter any required information and then click Save.	Plan
properties	Describes the properties of a Virtual Machine.	VirtualMachineProperties
zones	The virtual machine zones.	Array of availability zones as string or int.

ExtendedLocation

Name	Description	Value
name	The name of the extended location.	string
type	The type of the extended location.	'EdgeZone'

VirtualMachineIdentity

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of identity used for the virtual machine. The type 'SystemAssigned, UserAssigned' includes both an implicitly created identity and a set of user assigned identities. The type 'None' will remove any identities from the virtual machine.	'None' 'SystemAssigned' 'SystemAssigned, UserAssigned' 'UserAssigned'
userAssignedIdentities	The list of user identities associated with the Virtual Machine. The user identity dictionary key references will be ARM resource ids in the form: '/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ManagedIdentity/userAssignedIdentities/{identityName}'.	VirtualMachineIdentityUserAssignedIdentities

VirtualMachineIdentityUserAssignedIdentities

Name	Description	Value
{customized property}		UserAssignedIdentitiesValue

UserAssignedIdentitiesValue

This object doesn't contain any properties to set during deployment. All properties are ReadOnly.

Plan

Name	Description	Value
name	The plan ID.	string
product	Specifies the product of the image from the marketplace. This is the same value as Offer under the imageReference element.	string
promotionCode	The promotion code.	string
publisher	The publisher ID.	string

VirtualMachineProperties

Name	Description	Value
additionalCapabilities	Specifies additional capabilities enabled or disabled on the virtual machine.	AdditionalCapabilities
availabilitySet	Specifies information about the availability set that the virtual machine should be assigned to. Virtual machines specified in the same availability set are allocated to different nodes to maximize availability. For more information about availability sets, see Manage the availability of virtual machines. For more information on Azure planned maintenance, see Planned maintenance for virtual machines in Azure Currently, a VM can only be added to availability set at creation time. The availability set to which the VM is being added should be under the same resource group as the availability set resource. An existing VM cannot be added to an availability set. This property cannot exist along with a non-null properties.virtualMachineScaleSet reference.	SubResource
billingProfile	Specifies the billing related details of a Azure Spot virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01.	BillingProfile
diagnosticsProfile	Specifies the boot diagnostic settings state. Minimum api-version: 2015-06-15.	DiagnosticsProfile
evictionPolicy	Specifies the eviction policy for the Azure Spot virtual machine and Azure Spot scale set. For Azure Spot virtual machines, both 'Deallocate' and 'Delete' are supported and the minimum api-version is 2019-03-01. For Azure Spot scale sets, both 'Deallocate' and 'Delete' are supported and the minimum api-version is 2017-10-30-preview.	'Deallocate' 'Delete'
extensionsTimeBudget	Specifies the time alloted for all extensions to start. The time duration should be between 15 minutes and 120 minutes (inclusive) and should be specified in ISO 8601 format. The default value is 90 minutes (PT1H30M). Minimum api-version: 2020-06-01	string
hardwareProfile	Specifies the hardware settings for the virtual machine.	HardwareProfile
host	Specifies information about the dedicated host that the virtual machine resides in. Minimum api-version: 2018-10-01.	SubResource
hostGroup	Specifies information about the dedicated host group that the virtual machine resides in. Minimum api-version: 2020-06-01. NOTE: User cannot specify both host and hostGroup properties.	SubResource
licenseType	Specifies that the image or disk that is being used was licensed on-premises. Possible values for Windows Server operating system are: Windows_Client Windows_Server Possible values for Linux Server operating system are: RHEL_BYOS (for RHEL) SLES_BYOS (for SUSE) For more information, see Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for Windows Server Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for Linux Server Minimum api-version: 2015-06-15	string
networkProfile	Specifies the network interfaces of the virtual machine.	NetworkProfile
osProfile	Specifies the operating system settings used while creating the virtual machine. Some of the settings cannot be changed once VM is provisioned.	OSProfile
platformFaultDomain	Specifies the scale set logical fault domain into which the Virtual Machine will be created. By default, the Virtual Machine will by automatically assigned to a fault domain that best maintains balance across available fault domains. {li}This is applicable only if the 'virtualMachineScaleSet' property of this Virtual Machine is set.{li}The Virtual Machine Scale Set that is referenced, must have 'platformFaultDomainCount' > 1.{li}This property cannot be updated once the Virtual Machine is created.{li}Fault domain assignment can be viewed in the Virtual Machine Instance View. Minimum api‐version: 2020‐12‐01	int
priority	Specifies the priority for the virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01	'Low' 'Regular' 'Spot'
proximityPlacementGroup	Specifies information about the proximity placement group that the virtual machine should be assigned to. Minimum api-version: 2018-04-01.	SubResource
securityProfile	Specifies the Security related profile settings for the virtual machine.	SecurityProfile
storageProfile	Specifies the storage settings for the virtual machine disks.	StorageProfile
virtualMachineScaleSet	Specifies information about the virtual machine scale set that the virtual machine should be assigned to. Virtual machines specified in the same virtual machine scale set are allocated to different nodes to maximize availability. Currently, a VM can only be added to virtual machine scale set at creation time. An existing VM cannot be added to a virtual machine scale set. This property cannot exist along with a non-null properties.availabilitySet reference. Minimum api‐version: 2019‐03‐01	SubResource

AdditionalCapabilities

Name	Description	Value
ultraSSDEnabled	The flag that enables or disables a capability to have one or more managed data disks with UltraSSD_LRS storage account type on the VM or VMSS. Managed disks with storage account type UltraSSD_LRS can be added to a virtual machine or virtual machine scale set only if this property is enabled.	bool

SubResource

Name	Description	Value
id	Resource Id	string

BillingProfile

Name	Description	Value
maxPrice	Specifies the maximum price you are willing to pay for a Azure Spot VM/VMSS. This price is in US Dollars. This price will be compared with the current Azure Spot price for the VM size. Also, the prices are compared at the time of create/update of Azure Spot VM/VMSS and the operation will only succeed if the maxPrice is greater than the current Azure Spot price. The maxPrice will also be used for evicting a Azure Spot VM/VMSS if the current Azure Spot price goes beyond the maxPrice after creation of VM/VMSS. Possible values are: - Any decimal value greater than zero. Example: 0.01538 -1 – indicates default price to be up-to on-demand. You can set the maxPrice to -1 to indicate that the Azure Spot VM/VMSS should not be evicted for price reasons. Also, the default max price is -1 if it is not provided by you. Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01. To specify a decimal value, use the json() function.	int or json decimal

DiagnosticsProfile

Name	Description	Value
bootDiagnostics	Boot Diagnostics is a debugging feature which allows you to view Console Output and Screenshot to diagnose VM status. You can easily view the output of your console log. Azure also enables you to see a screenshot of the VM from the hypervisor.	BootDiagnostics

BootDiagnostics

Name	Description	Value
enabled	Whether boot diagnostics should be enabled on the Virtual Machine.	bool
storageUri	Uri of the storage account to use for placing the console output and screenshot. If storageUri is not specified while enabling boot diagnostics, managed storage will be used.	string

HardwareProfile

Name	Description	Value
vmSize	Specifies the size of the virtual machine. The enum data type is currently deprecated and will be removed by December 23rd 2023. Recommended way to get the list of available sizes is using these APIs: List all available virtual machine sizes in an availability set List all available virtual machine sizes in a region List all available virtual machine sizes for resizing. For more information about virtual machine sizes, see Sizes for virtual machines. The available VM sizes depend on region and availability set.	'Basic_A0' 'Basic_A1' 'Basic_A2' 'Basic_A3' 'Basic_A4' 'Standard_A0' 'Standard_A1' 'Standard_A10' 'Standard_A11' 'Standard_A1_v2' 'Standard_A2' 'Standard_A2_v2' 'Standard_A2m_v2' 'Standard_A3' 'Standard_A4' 'Standard_A4_v2' 'Standard_A4m_v2' 'Standard_A5' 'Standard_A6' 'Standard_A7' 'Standard_A8' 'Standard_A8_v2' 'Standard_A8m_v2' 'Standard_A9' 'Standard_B1ms' 'Standard_B1s' 'Standard_B2ms' 'Standard_B2s' 'Standard_B4ms' 'Standard_B8ms' 'Standard_D1' 'Standard_D11' 'Standard_D11_v2' 'Standard_D12' 'Standard_D12_v2' 'Standard_D13' 'Standard_D13_v2' 'Standard_D14' 'Standard_D14_v2' 'Standard_D15_v2' 'Standard_D16_v3' 'Standard_D16s_v3' 'Standard_D1_v2' 'Standard_D2' 'Standard_D2_v2' 'Standard_D2_v3' 'Standard_D2s_v3' 'Standard_D3' 'Standard_D32_v3' 'Standard_D32s_v3' 'Standard_D3_v2' 'Standard_D4' 'Standard_D4_v2' 'Standard_D4_v3' 'Standard_D4s_v3' 'Standard_D5_v2' 'Standard_D64_v3' 'Standard_D64s_v3' 'Standard_D8_v3' 'Standard_D8s_v3' 'Standard_DS1' 'Standard_DS11' 'Standard_DS11_v2' 'Standard_DS12' 'Standard_DS12_v2' 'Standard_DS13' 'Standard_DS13-2_v2' 'Standard_DS13-4_v2' 'Standard_DS13_v2' 'Standard_DS14' 'Standard_DS14-4_v2' 'Standard_DS14-8_v2' 'Standard_DS14_v2' 'Standard_DS15_v2' 'Standard_DS1_v2' 'Standard_DS2' 'Standard_DS2_v2' 'Standard_DS3' 'Standard_DS3_v2' 'Standard_DS4' 'Standard_DS4_v2' 'Standard_DS5_v2' 'Standard_E16_v3' 'Standard_E16s_v3' 'Standard_E2_v3' 'Standard_E2s_v3' 'Standard_E32-16_v3' 'Standard_E32-8s_v3' 'Standard_E32_v3' 'Standard_E32s_v3' 'Standard_E4_v3' 'Standard_E4s_v3' 'Standard_E64-16s_v3' 'Standard_E64-32s_v3' 'Standard_E64_v3' 'Standard_E64s_v3' 'Standard_E8_v3' 'Standard_E8s_v3' 'Standard_F1' 'Standard_F16' 'Standard_F16s' 'Standard_F16s_v2' 'Standard_F1s' 'Standard_F2' 'Standard_F2s' 'Standard_F2s_v2' 'Standard_F32s_v2' 'Standard_F4' 'Standard_F4s' 'Standard_F4s_v2' 'Standard_F64s_v2' 'Standard_F72s_v2' 'Standard_F8' 'Standard_F8s' 'Standard_F8s_v2' 'Standard_G1' 'Standard_G2' 'Standard_G3' 'Standard_G4' 'Standard_G5' 'Standard_GS1' 'Standard_GS2' 'Standard_GS3' 'Standard_GS4' 'Standard_GS4-4' 'Standard_GS4-8' 'Standard_GS5' 'Standard_GS5-16' 'Standard_GS5-8' 'Standard_H16' 'Standard_H16m' 'Standard_H16mr' 'Standard_H16r' 'Standard_H8' 'Standard_H8m' 'Standard_L16s' 'Standard_L32s' 'Standard_L4s' 'Standard_L8s' 'Standard_M128-32ms' 'Standard_M128-64ms' 'Standard_M128ms' 'Standard_M128s' 'Standard_M64-16ms' 'Standard_M64-32ms' 'Standard_M64ms' 'Standard_M64s' 'Standard_NC12' 'Standard_NC12s_v2' 'Standard_NC12s_v3' 'Standard_NC24' 'Standard_NC24r' 'Standard_NC24rs_v2' 'Standard_NC24rs_v3' 'Standard_NC24s_v2' 'Standard_NC24s_v3' 'Standard_NC6' 'Standard_NC6s_v2' 'Standard_NC6s_v3' 'Standard_ND12s' 'Standard_ND24rs' 'Standard_ND24s' 'Standard_ND6s' 'Standard_NV12' 'Standard_NV24' 'Standard_NV6'

NetworkProfile

Name	Description	Value
networkInterfaces	Specifies the list of resource Ids for the network interfaces associated with the virtual machine.	NetworkInterfaceReference[]

NetworkInterfaceReference

Name	Description	Value
id	Resource Id	string
properties	Describes a network interface reference properties.	NetworkInterfaceReferenceProperties

NetworkInterfaceReferenceProperties

Name	Description	Value
primary	Specifies the primary network interface in case the virtual machine has more than 1 network interface.	bool

OSProfile

Name	Description	Value
adminPassword	Specifies the password of the administrator account. Minimum-length (Windows): 8 characters Minimum-length (Linux): 6 characters Max-length (Windows): 123 characters Max-length (Linux): 72 characters Complexity requirements: 3 out of 4 conditions below need to be fulfilled Has lower characters Has upper characters Has a digit Has a special character (Regex match [\W_]) Disallowed values: "abc@123", "P@$$w0rd", "P@ssw0rd", "P@ssword123", "Pa$$word", "pass@word1", "Password!", "Password1", "Password22", "iloveyou!" For resetting the password, see How to reset the Remote Desktop service or its login password in a Windows VM For resetting root password, see Manage users, SSH, and check or repair disks on Azure Linux VMs using the VMAccess Extension	string Constraints: Sensitive value. Pass in as a secure parameter.
adminUsername	Specifies the name of the administrator account. This property cannot be updated after the VM is created. Windows-only restriction: Cannot end in "." Disallowed values: "administrator", "admin", "user", "user1", "test", "user2", "test1", "user3", "admin1", "1", "123", "a", "actuser", "adm", "admin2", "aspnet", "backup", "console", "david", "guest", "john", "owner", "root", "server", "sql", "support", "support_388945a0", "sys", "test2", "test3", "user4", "user5". Minimum-length (Linux): 1 character Max-length (Linux): 64 characters Max-length (Windows): 20 characters {li} For root access to the Linux VM, see Using root privileges on Linux virtual machines in Azure {li} For a list of built-in system users on Linux that should not be used in this field, see Selecting User Names for Linux on Azure	string
allowExtensionOperations	Specifies whether extension operations should be allowed on the virtual machine. This may only be set to False when no extensions are present on the virtual machine.	bool
computerName	Specifies the host OS name of the virtual machine. This name cannot be updated after the VM is created. Max-length (Windows): 15 characters Max-length (Linux): 64 characters. For naming conventions and restrictions see Azure infrastructure services implementation guidelines.	string
customData	Specifies a base-64 encoded string of custom data. The base-64 encoded string is decoded to a binary array that is saved as a file on the Virtual Machine. The maximum length of the binary array is 65535 bytes. Note: Do not pass any secrets or passwords in customData property This property cannot be updated after the VM is created. customData is passed to the VM to be saved as a file, for more information see Custom Data on Azure VMs For using cloud-init for your Linux VM, see Using cloud-init to customize a Linux VM during creation	string
linuxConfiguration	Specifies the Linux operating system settings on the virtual machine. For a list of supported Linux distributions, see Linux on Azure-Endorsed Distributions For running non-endorsed distributions, see Information for Non-Endorsed Distributions.	LinuxConfiguration
requireGuestProvisionSignal	Specifies whether the guest provision signal is required to infer provision success of the virtual machine. Note: This property is for private testing only, and all customers must not set the property to false.	bool
secrets	Specifies set of certificates that should be installed onto the virtual machine.	VaultSecretGroup[]
windowsConfiguration	Specifies Windows operating system settings on the virtual machine.	WindowsConfiguration

LinuxConfiguration

Name	Description	Value
disablePasswordAuthentication	Specifies whether password authentication should be disabled.	bool
patchSettings	[Preview Feature] Specifies settings related to VM Guest Patching on Linux.	LinuxPatchSettings
provisionVMAgent	Indicates whether virtual machine agent should be provisioned on the virtual machine. When this property is not specified in the request body, default behavior is to set it to true. This will ensure that VM Agent is installed on the VM so that extensions can be added to the VM later.	bool
ssh	Specifies the ssh key configuration for a Linux OS.	SshConfiguration

LinuxPatchSettings

Name	Description	Value
patchMode	Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patching to IaaS virtual machine. Possible values are: ImageDefault - The virtual machine's default patching configuration is used. AutomaticByPlatform - The virtual machine will be automatically updated by the platform. The property provisionVMAgent must be true	'AutomaticByPlatform' 'ImageDefault'

SshConfiguration

Name	Description	Value
publicKeys	The list of SSH public keys used to authenticate with linux based VMs.	SshPublicKey[]

SshPublicKey

Name	Description	Value
keyData	SSH public key certificate used to authenticate with the VM through ssh. The key needs to be at least 2048-bit and in ssh-rsa format. For creating ssh keys, see Create SSH keys on Linux and Mac for Linux VMs in Azure.	string
path	Specifies the full path on the created VM where ssh public key is stored. If the file already exists, the specified key is appended to the file. Example: /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys	string

VaultSecretGroup

Name	Description	Value
sourceVault	The relative URL of the Key Vault containing all of the certificates in VaultCertificates.	SubResource
vaultCertificates	The list of key vault references in SourceVault which contain certificates.	VaultCertificate[]

VaultCertificate

Name	Description	Value
certificateStore	For Windows VMs, specifies the certificate store on the Virtual Machine to which the certificate should be added. The specified certificate store is implicitly in the LocalMachine account. For Linux VMs, the certificate file is placed under the /var/lib/waagent directory, with the file name <UppercaseThumbprint>.crt for the X509 certificate file and <UppercaseThumbprint>.prv for private key. Both of these files are .pem formatted.	string
certificateUrl	This is the URL of a certificate that has been uploaded to Key Vault as a secret. For adding a secret to the Key Vault, see Add a key or secret to the key vault. In this case, your certificate needs to be It is the Base64 encoding of the following JSON Object which is encoded in UTF-8: { "data":"{Base64-encoded-certificate}", "dataType":"pfx", "password":"{pfx-file-password}" }	string

WindowsConfiguration

Name	Description	Value
additionalUnattendContent	Specifies additional base-64 encoded XML formatted information that can be included in the Unattend.xml file, which is used by Windows Setup.	AdditionalUnattendContent[]
enableAutomaticUpdates	Indicates whether Automatic Updates is enabled for the Windows virtual machine. Default value is true. For virtual machine scale sets, this property can be updated and updates will take effect on OS reprovisioning.	bool
patchSettings	[Preview Feature] Specifies settings related to VM Guest Patching on Windows.	PatchSettings
provisionVMAgent	Indicates whether virtual machine agent should be provisioned on the virtual machine. When this property is not specified in the request body, default behavior is to set it to true. This will ensure that VM Agent is installed on the VM so that extensions can be added to the VM later.	bool
timeZone	Specifies the time zone of the virtual machine. e.g. "Pacific Standard Time". Possible values can be TimeZoneInfo.Id value from time zones returned by TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones.	string
winRM	Specifies the Windows Remote Management listeners. This enables remote Windows PowerShell.	WinRMConfiguration

AdditionalUnattendContent

Name	Description	Value
componentName	The component name. Currently, the only allowable value is Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup.	'Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup'
content	Specifies the XML formatted content that is added to the unattend.xml file for the specified path and component. The XML must be less than 4KB and must include the root element for the setting or feature that is being inserted.	string
passName	The pass name. Currently, the only allowable value is OobeSystem.	'OobeSystem'
settingName	Specifies the name of the setting to which the content applies. Possible values are: FirstLogonCommands and AutoLogon.	'AutoLogon' 'FirstLogonCommands'

PatchSettings

Name	Description	Value
enableHotpatching	Enables customers to patch their Azure VMs without requiring a reboot. For enableHotpatching, the 'provisionVMAgent' must be set to true and 'patchMode' must be set to 'AutomaticByPlatform'.	bool
patchMode	Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patching to IaaS virtual machine. Possible values are: Manual - You control the application of patches to a virtual machine. You do this by applying patches manually inside the VM. In this mode, automatic updates are disabled; the property WindowsConfiguration.enableAutomaticUpdates must be false AutomaticByOS - The virtual machine will automatically be updated by the OS. The property WindowsConfiguration.enableAutomaticUpdates must be true. AutomaticByPlatform - the virtual machine will automatically updated by the platform. The properties provisionVMAgent and WindowsConfiguration.enableAutomaticUpdates must be true	'AutomaticByOS' 'AutomaticByPlatform' 'Manual'

WinRMConfiguration

Name	Description	Value
listeners	The list of Windows Remote Management listeners	WinRMListener[]

WinRMListener

Name	Description	Value
certificateUrl	This is the URL of a certificate that has been uploaded to Key Vault as a secret. For adding a secret to the Key Vault, see Add a key or secret to the key vault. In this case, your certificate needs to be It is the Base64 encoding of the following JSON Object which is encoded in UTF-8: { "data":"{Base64-encoded-certificate}", "dataType":"pfx", "password":"{pfx-file-password}" }	string
protocol	Specifies the protocol of WinRM listener. Possible values are: http https	'Http' 'Https'

SecurityProfile

Name	Description	Value
encryptionAtHost	This property can be used by user in the request to enable or disable the Host Encryption for the virtual machine or virtual machine scale set. This will enable the encryption for all the disks including Resource/Temp disk at host itself. Default: The Encryption at host will be disabled unless this property is set to true for the resource.	bool
securityType	Specifies the SecurityType of the virtual machine. It is set as TrustedLaunch to enable UefiSettings. Default: UefiSettings will not be enabled unless this property is set as TrustedLaunch.	'TrustedLaunch'
uefiSettings	Specifies the security settings like secure boot and vTPM used while creating the virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01	UefiSettings

UefiSettings

Name	Description	Value
secureBootEnabled	Specifies whether secure boot should be enabled on the virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01	bool
vTpmEnabled	Specifies whether vTPM should be enabled on the virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01	bool

StorageProfile

Name	Description	Value
dataDisks	Specifies the parameters that are used to add a data disk to a virtual machine. For more information about disks, see About disks and VHDs for Azure virtual machines.	DataDisk[]
imageReference	Specifies information about the image to use. You can specify information about platform images, marketplace images, or virtual machine images. This element is required when you want to use a platform image, marketplace image, or virtual machine image, but is not used in other creation operations.	ImageReference
osDisk	Specifies information about the operating system disk used by the virtual machine. For more information about disks, see About disks and VHDs for Azure virtual machines.	OSDisk

DataDisk

Name	Description	Value
caching	Specifies the caching requirements. Possible values are: None ReadOnly ReadWrite Default: None for Standard storage. ReadOnly for Premium storage	'None' 'ReadOnly' 'ReadWrite'
createOption	Specifies how the virtual machine should be created. Possible values are: Attach \u2013 This value is used when you are using a specialized disk to create the virtual machine. FromImage \u2013 This value is used when you are using an image to create the virtual machine. If you are using a platform image, you also use the imageReference element described above. If you are using a marketplace image, you also use the plan element previously described.	'Attach' 'Empty' 'FromImage' (required)
detachOption	Specifies the detach behavior to be used while detaching a disk or which is already in the process of detachment from the virtual machine. Supported values: ForceDetach. detachOption: ForceDetach is applicable only for managed data disks. If a previous detachment attempt of the data disk did not complete due to an unexpected failure from the virtual machine and the disk is still not released then use force-detach as a last resort option to detach the disk forcibly from the VM. All writes might not have been flushed when using this detach behavior. This feature is still in preview mode and is not supported for VirtualMachineScaleSet. To force-detach a data disk update toBeDetached to 'true' along with setting detachOption: 'ForceDetach'.	'ForceDetach'
diskSizeGB	Specifies the size of an empty data disk in gigabytes. This element can be used to overwrite the size of the disk in a virtual machine image. This value cannot be larger than 1023 GB	int
image	The source user image virtual hard disk. The virtual hard disk will be copied before being attached to the virtual machine. If SourceImage is provided, the destination virtual hard drive must not exist.	VirtualHardDisk
lun	Specifies the logical unit number of the data disk. This value is used to identify data disks within the VM and therefore must be unique for each data disk attached to a VM.	int (required)
managedDisk	The managed disk parameters.	ManagedDiskParameters
name	The disk name.	string
toBeDetached	Specifies whether the data disk is in process of detachment from the VirtualMachine/VirtualMachineScaleset	bool
vhd	The virtual hard disk.	VirtualHardDisk
writeAcceleratorEnabled	Specifies whether writeAccelerator should be enabled or disabled on the disk.	bool

VirtualHardDisk

Name	Description	Value
uri	Specifies the virtual hard disk's uri.	string

ManagedDiskParameters

Name	Description	Value
diskEncryptionSet	Specifies the customer managed disk encryption set resource id for the managed disk.	DiskEncryptionSetParameters
id	Resource Id	string
storageAccountType	Specifies the storage account type for the managed disk. Managed OS disk storage account type can only be set when you create the scale set. NOTE: UltraSSD_LRS can only be used with data disks, it cannot be used with OS Disk.	'Premium_LRS' 'Premium_ZRS' 'StandardSSD_LRS' 'StandardSSD_ZRS' 'Standard_LRS' 'UltraSSD_LRS'

DiskEncryptionSetParameters

Name	Description	Value
id	Resource Id	string

ImageReference

Name	Description	Value
id	Resource Id	string
offer	Specifies the offer of the platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine.	string
publisher	The image publisher.	string
sku	The image SKU.	string
version	Specifies the version of the platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine. The allowed formats are Major.Minor.Build or 'latest'. Major, Minor, and Build are decimal numbers. Specify 'latest' to use the latest version of an image available at deploy time. Even if you use 'latest', the VM image will not automatically update after deploy time even if a new version becomes available.	string

OSDisk

Name	Description	Value
caching	Specifies the caching requirements. Possible values are: None ReadOnly ReadWrite Default: None for Standard storage. ReadOnly for Premium storage.	'None' 'ReadOnly' 'ReadWrite'
createOption	Specifies how the virtual machine should be created. Possible values are: Attach \u2013 This value is used when you are using a specialized disk to create the virtual machine. FromImage \u2013 This value is used when you are using an image to create the virtual machine. If you are using a platform image, you also use the imageReference element described above. If you are using a marketplace image, you also use the plan element previously described.	'Attach' 'Empty' 'FromImage' (required)
diffDiskSettings	Specifies the ephemeral Disk Settings for the operating system disk used by the virtual machine.	DiffDiskSettings
diskSizeGB	Specifies the size of an empty data disk in gigabytes. This element can be used to overwrite the size of the disk in a virtual machine image. This value cannot be larger than 1023 GB	int
encryptionSettings	Specifies the encryption settings for the OS Disk. Minimum api-version: 2015-06-15	DiskEncryptionSettings
image	The source user image virtual hard disk. The virtual hard disk will be copied before being attached to the virtual machine. If SourceImage is provided, the destination virtual hard drive must not exist.	VirtualHardDisk
managedDisk	The managed disk parameters.	ManagedDiskParameters
name	The disk name.	string
osType	This property allows you to specify the type of the OS that is included in the disk if creating a VM from user-image or a specialized VHD. Possible values are: Windows Linux	'Linux' 'Windows'
vhd	The virtual hard disk.	VirtualHardDisk
writeAcceleratorEnabled	Specifies whether writeAccelerator should be enabled or disabled on the disk.	bool

DiffDiskSettings

Name	Description	Value
option	Specifies the ephemeral disk settings for operating system disk.	'Local'
placement	Specifies the ephemeral disk placement for operating system disk. Possible values are: CacheDisk ResourceDisk Default: CacheDisk if one is configured for the VM size otherwise ResourceDisk is used. Refer to VM size documentation for Windows VM at /azure/virtual-machines/windows/sizes and Linux VM at /azure/virtual-machines/linux/sizes to check which VM sizes exposes a cache disk.	'CacheDisk' 'ResourceDisk'

DiskEncryptionSettings

Name	Description	Value
diskEncryptionKey	Specifies the location of the disk encryption key, which is a Key Vault Secret.	KeyVaultSecretReference
enabled	Specifies whether disk encryption should be enabled on the virtual machine.	bool
keyEncryptionKey	Specifies the location of the key encryption key in Key Vault.	KeyVaultKeyReference

KeyVaultSecretReference

Name	Description	Value
secretUrl	The URL referencing a secret in a Key Vault.	string (required)
sourceVault	The relative URL of the Key Vault containing the secret.	SubResource (required)

KeyVaultKeyReference

Name	Description	Value
keyUrl	The URL referencing a key encryption key in Key Vault.	string (required)
sourceVault	The relative URL of the Key Vault containing the key.	SubResource (required)

Quickstart templates

The following quickstart templates deploy this resource type.

Template	Description
Deploy a simple Linux VM and update private IP to static	This template allows you to deploy a simple Linux VM using Ubuntu from the marketplace. This will deploy a VNET, Subnet, and an A1 size VM in the resource group location with a dynamically assigned IP address and then convert it to static IP.
Create VMs in Availability Sets using Resource Loops	Create 2-5 VMs in Availability Sets using Resource Loops. The VMs can be Unbuntu or Windows with a maximum of 5 VMs since this sample uses a single storageAccount
Multi VM Template with Managed Disk	This template will create N number of VM's with managed disks, public IPs and network interfaces. It will create the VMs in a single Availability Set. They will be provisioned in a Virtual Network which will also be created as part of the deployment
Install a file on a Windows VM	This template allows you to deploy a Windows VM and run a custom PowerShell script to install a file on that VM.
Deploy a Virtual Machine with Custom Data	This template allows you to create a Virtual Machine with Custom Data passed down to the VM. This template also deploys a Storage Account, Virtual Network, Public IP addresses and a Network Interface.
Deploy a Premium Windows VM with diagnostics	This template allows you to deploy a Premium Windows VM using a few different options for the Windows version, using the latest patched version.
Create a VM in a VNET in different Resource Group	This template creates a VM in a VNET which is in a different Resource Group
Join a VM to an existing domain	This template demonstrates domain join to a private AD domain up in cloud.
Create a VM with a dynamic selection of data disks	This template allows the user to select the number of data disks they'd like to add to the VM.
Create a VM from a EfficientIP VHD	This template creates a VM from a EfficientIP VHD and let you connect it to an existing VNET that can reside in another Resource Group then the virtual machine
Create a VM from User Image	This template allows you to create a Virtual Machines from a User image. This template also deploys a Virtual Network, Public IP addresses and a Network Interface.
Create a VM in a new or existing vnet from a generalized VHD	This template creates a VM from a generalized VHD and let you connect it to a new or existing VNET that can reside in another Resource Group than the virtual machine
CentOS/UbuntuServer Auto Dynamic Disks & Docker 1.12(cs)	This is a common template for creating single instance CentOS 7.2/7.1/6.5 or Ubuntu Server 16.04.0-LTS with configurable number of data disks (configurable sizes). Maximum 16 disks can be mentioned in the portal parameters and maximum size of each disk should be less than 1023 GB. The MDADM RAID0 Array is automounted and survives restarts. Latest Docker 1.12(cs3) (Swarm), docker-compose 1.9.0 & docker-machine 0.8.2 is available for usage from user azure-cli is auto running as a docker container. This single instance template is an offshoot of the HPC/GPU Clusters Template @ https://github.com/azurebigcompute/BigComputeBench
GitLab Omnibus	This template simplifies the deployment of GitLab Omnibus on a Virtual Machine with a public DNS, leveraging the public IP's DNS. It utilizes the Standard_F8s_v2 instance size, which aligns with reference architecture and supports up to 1000 users (20 RPS). The instance is pre-configured to use HTTPS with a Let's Encrypt certificate for secure connections.
Linux VM with Serial Output	This template creates a simple Linux VM with minimal parameters and serial/console configured to output to storage
Deploy a simple Windows VM with monitoring and diagnostics	This template allows you to deploy a simple Windows VM along with the diagnostics extension which enables monitoring and diagnostics for the VM
Deploy a Linux or Windows VM with MSI	This template allows you to deploy a Linux or Windows VM with a Managed Service Identity.
Terraform on Azure	This template allows you to deploy a Terraform workstation as a Linux VM with MSI.
Linux VM with MSI Accessing Storage	This template deploys a linux VM with a system assigned managed identity that has access to a storage account in a different resource group.
Create a VM from a Windows Image with 4 Empty Data Disks	This template allows you to create a Windows Virtual Machine from a specified image. It also attaches 4 empty data disks. Note that you can specify the size of the empty data disks.
Deploy a VM with multiple IPs	This template allows you to deploy a VM with 3 IP configurations. This template will deploy a Linux/Windows VM called myVM1 with 3 IP configurations: IPConfig-1, IPConfig-2 and IPConfig-3, respectively.
Deploy a Linux VM (Ubuntu) with multiple NICs	This template creates a VNet with multiple subnets and deploys a Ubuntu VM with multiple NICs
Virtual Machine with Conditional Resources	This template allows deploying a linux VM using new or existing resources for the Virtual Network, Storage and Public IP Address. It also allows for choosing between SSH and Password authenticate. The templates uses conditions and logic functions to remove the need for nested deployments.
Create VM from existing VHDs and connect it to existingVNET	This template creates a VM from VHDs (OS + data disk) and let you connect it to an existing VNET that can reside in another Resource Group then the virtual machine
Push a certificate onto a Windows VM	Push a certificate onto a Windows VM. Create the Key Vault using the template at https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/templates/101-create-key-vault
Secure VM password with Key Vault	This template allows you to deploy a simple Windows VM by retrieving the password that is stored in a Key Vault. Therefore the password is never put in plain text in the template parameter file
Deploy a simple FreeBSD VM in resource group location	This template allows you to deploy a simple FreeBSD VM using a few different options for the FreeBSD version, using the latest patched version. This will deploy in resource group location on a D1 VM Size.
Deploy a simple Ubuntu Linux VM 20.04-LTS	This template deploys an Ubuntu Server with a few options for the VM. You can provide the VM Name, OS Version, VM size, and admin username and password. As default the VM size is Standard_D2s_v3 and OS version is 20.04-LTS.
Deploy a simple Linux VM with Accelerated Networking	This template allows you to deploy a simple Linux VM with Accelerated Networking using Ubuntu version 18.04-LTS with the latest patched version. This will deploy a D3_v2 size VM in the resource group location and return the FQDN of the VM.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM (RHEL 7.8)	This template will deploy a Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM (RHEL 7.8), using the Pay-As-You-Go RHEL VM image for the selected version on Standard D1 VM in the location of your chosen resource group with an additional 100 GiB data disk attached to the VM. Additional charges apply to this image - consult Azure VM Pricing page for details.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM (RHEL 7.8 unmanaged)	This template will deploy a Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM (RHEL 7.8), using the Pay-As-You-Go RHEL VM image for the selected version on Standard A1_v2 VM in the location of your chosen resource group with an additional 100 GiB data disk attached to the VM. Additional charges apply to this image - consult Azure VM Pricing page for details.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server VM (SLES 12)	This template will allow you to deploy a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server VM (SLES 12), using the Pay-As-You-Go SLES VM image for the selected version on Standard D1 VM in the location of your chosen resource group with an additional 100 GiB data disk attached to the VM. Additional charges apply to this image - consult Azure VM Pricing page for details.
Deploy a simple Windows VM	This template allows you to deploy a simple Windows VM using a few different options for the Windows version, using the latest patched version. This will deploy an A2 size VM in the resource group location and return the FQDN of the VM.
Deploy a Windows Server VM with Visual Studio	This template deploys a Windows Server VM with Visual Code Studio Community 2019, with a few options for the VM. You can provide the name of VM, the admin username and admin password.
Deploy a VM into an Availability Zone	This template allows you to deploy a simple VM (Windows or Ubuntu), using the latest patched version. This will deploy a A2_v2 size VM in the location specified and return the FQDN of the VM.
Create a VM in a new or existing vnet from a custom VHD	This template creates a VM from a specialized VHD and let you connect it to a new or existing VNET that can reside in another Resource Group than the virtual machine
SQL Server 2014 SP2 Enterprise with Auto Backup	This template will create a SQL Server 2014 SP2 Enterprise edition with Auto Backup feature enabled
SQL Server 2014 SP1 Enterprise with Auto Patching	This template will create a SQL Server 2014 SP1 Enterprise edition with Auto Patching feature enabled.
SQL Server 2014 SP1 Enterprise with Azure Key Vault	This template will create a SQL Server 2014 SP1 Enterprise edition with Azure Key Vault Integration feature enabled.
Deploy a Virtual Machine with SSH rsa public key	This template allows you to create a Virtual Machine with SSH rsa public key
Deploy a simple Windows VM with tags	This template will deploy a D2_v3 Windows VM, NIC, Storage Account, Virtual Network, Public IP Address, and Network Security Group. The tag object is created in the variables and will be applied on all resources, where applicable.
Deploy a trusted launch capable Linux virtual machine	This template allows you to deploy a trusted launch capable Linux virtual machine using a few different options for the Linux version, using the latest patched version. If you enable Secureboot and vTPM, the Guest Attestation extension will be installed on your VM. This extension will perform remote attestation by the cloud. By default, this will deploy an Standard_D2_v3 size virtual machine in the resource group location and return the FQDN of the virtual machine.
Deploy a trusted launch capable Windows virtual machine	This template allows you to deploy a trusted launch capable Windows virtual machine using a few different options for the Windows version, using the latest patched version. If you enable Secureboot and vTPM, the Guest Attestation extension will be installed on your VM. This extension will perform remote attestation by the cloud. By default, this will deploy an Standard_D2_v3 size virtual machine in the resource group location and return the FQDN of the virtual machine.
Deploy a Virtual Machine with User Data	This template allows you to create a Virtual Machine with User Data passed down to the VM. This template also deploys a Virtual Network, Public IP addresses, and a Network Interface.
Deploy a Windows VM with Windows Admin Center extension	This template allows you to deploy a Windows VM with Windows Admin Center extension to manage the VM directly from Azure Portal.
Windows VM with Azure secure baseline	The template creates a virtual machine running Windows Server in a new virtual network, with a public IP address. Once the machine has deployed, the guest configuration extension is installed and the Azure secure baseline for Windows Server is applied. If the configuration of the machines drifts, you can re-apply the settings by deploying the template again.
Deploy a Windows VM with a variable number of data disks	This template allows you to deploy a simple VM and specify the number of data disks at deploy time using a parameter. Note that the number and size of data disks is bound by the VM size. The VM size for this sample is Standard_DS4_v2 with a default of 16 data disks.
Windows Server VM with SSH	Deploy a single Windows VM with Open SSH enabled so that you can connect through SSH using key-based authentication.
Create a data management gateway and install on an Azure VM	This template deploys a virtual machine and creates a workable data management gateway
Virtual machine with an RDP port	Creates a virtual machine and creates a NAT rule for RDP to the VM in load balancer
Create a VM with multiple empty StandardSSD_LRS Data Disks	This template allows you to create a Windows Virtual Machine from a specified image. It also attaches multiple empty StandardSSD data disks by default. Note that you can specify the size and the Storage type (Standard_LRS, StandardSSD_LRS and Premium_LRS) of the empty data disks.
Self-host Integration Runtime on Azure VMs	This template creates a selfhost integration runtime and registers it on Azure virtual machines
Add multiple VMs into a Virtual Machine Scale Set	This template will create N number of VM's with managed disks, public IPs and network interfaces. It will create the VMs in a Virtual Machine Scale Set in Flexible Orchestration mode. They will be provisioned in a Virtual Network which will also be created as part of the deployment
Deploy a VM Scale Set with Linux VMs behind ILB	This template allows you to deploy a VM Scale Set of Linux VMs using the latest patched version of Ubuntu Linux 15.10 or 14.04.4-LTS. These VMs are behind an internal load balancer with NAT rules for ssh connections.

Terraform (AzAPI provider) resource definition

The virtualMachines resource type can be deployed with operations that target:

• Resource groups

For a list of changed properties in each API version, see change log.

Resource format

To create a Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines resource, add the following Terraform to your template.

resource "azapi_resource" "symbolicname" {
  type = "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines@2020-12-01"
  name = "string"
  location = "string"
  parent_id = "string"
  tags = {
    tagName1 = "tagValue1"
    tagName2 = "tagValue2"
  }
  identity {
    type = "string"
    identity_ids = []
  }
  body = jsonencode({
    properties = {
      additionalCapabilities = {
        ultraSSDEnabled = bool
      }
      availabilitySet = {
        id = "string"
      }
      billingProfile = {
        maxPrice = "decimal-as-string"
      }
      diagnosticsProfile = {
        bootDiagnostics = {
          enabled = bool
          storageUri = "string"
        }
      }
      evictionPolicy = "string"
      extensionsTimeBudget = "string"
      hardwareProfile = {
        vmSize = "string"
      }
      host = {
        id = "string"
      }
      hostGroup = {
        id = "string"
      }
      licenseType = "string"
      networkProfile = {
        networkInterfaces = [
          {
            id = "string"
            properties = {
              primary = bool
            }
          }
        ]
      }
      osProfile = {
        adminPassword = "string"
        adminUsername = "string"
        allowExtensionOperations = bool
        computerName = "string"
        customData = "string"
        linuxConfiguration = {
          disablePasswordAuthentication = bool
          patchSettings = {
            patchMode = "string"
          }
          provisionVMAgent = bool
          ssh = {
            publicKeys = [
              {
                keyData = "string"
                path = "string"
              }
            ]
          }
        }
        requireGuestProvisionSignal = bool
        secrets = [
          {
            sourceVault = {
              id = "string"
            }
            vaultCertificates = [
              {
                certificateStore = "string"
                certificateUrl = "string"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
        windowsConfiguration = {
          additionalUnattendContent = [
            {
              componentName = "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup"
              content = "string"
              passName = "OobeSystem"
              settingName = "string"
            }
          ]
          enableAutomaticUpdates = bool
          patchSettings = {
            enableHotpatching = bool
            patchMode = "string"
          }
          provisionVMAgent = bool
          timeZone = "string"
          winRM = {
            listeners = [
              {
                certificateUrl = "string"
                protocol = "string"
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      }
      platformFaultDomain = int
      priority = "string"
      proximityPlacementGroup = {
        id = "string"
      }
      securityProfile = {
        encryptionAtHost = bool
        securityType = "TrustedLaunch"
        uefiSettings = {
          secureBootEnabled = bool
          vTpmEnabled = bool
        }
      }
      storageProfile = {
        dataDisks = [
          {
            caching = "string"
            createOption = "string"
            detachOption = "ForceDetach"
            diskSizeGB = int
            image = {
              uri = "string"
            }
            lun = int
            managedDisk = {
              diskEncryptionSet = {
                id = "string"
              }
              id = "string"
              storageAccountType = "string"
            }
            name = "string"
            toBeDetached = bool
            vhd = {
              uri = "string"
            }
            writeAcceleratorEnabled = bool
          }
        ]
        imageReference = {
          id = "string"
          offer = "string"
          publisher = "string"
          sku = "string"
          version = "string"
        }
        osDisk = {
          caching = "string"
          createOption = "string"
          diffDiskSettings = {
            option = "Local"
            placement = "string"
          }
          diskSizeGB = int
          encryptionSettings = {
            diskEncryptionKey = {
              secretUrl = "string"
              sourceVault = {
                id = "string"
              }
            }
            enabled = bool
            keyEncryptionKey = {
              keyUrl = "string"
              sourceVault = {
                id = "string"
              }
            }
          }
          image = {
            uri = "string"
          }
          managedDisk = {
            diskEncryptionSet = {
              id = "string"
            }
            id = "string"
            storageAccountType = "string"
          }
          name = "string"
          osType = "string"
          vhd = {
            uri = "string"
          }
          writeAcceleratorEnabled = bool
        }
      }
      virtualMachineScaleSet = {
        id = "string"
      }
    }
    zones = [
      "string" or int
    ]
    extendedLocation = {
      name = "string"
      type = "EdgeZone"
    }
    plan = {
      name = "string"
      product = "string"
      promotionCode = "string"
      publisher = "string"
    }
  })
}

Property values

virtualMachines

Name	Description	Value
type	The resource type	"Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines@2020-12-01"
name	The resource name	string (required) Character limit: 1-15 (Windows) 1-64 (Linux) Valid characters: Can't use spaces, control characters, or these characters: ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) = + _ [ ] { } \ | ; : . ' " , < > / ? Windows VMs can't include period or end with hyphen. Linux VMs can't end with period or hyphen.
location	Resource location	string (required)
parent_id	To deploy to a resource group, use the ID of that resource group.	string (required)
tags	Resource tags	Dictionary of tag names and values.
extendedLocation	The extended location of the Virtual Machine.	ExtendedLocation
identity	The identity of the virtual machine, if configured.	VirtualMachineIdentity
plan	Specifies information about the marketplace image used to create the virtual machine. This element is only used for marketplace images. Before you can use a marketplace image from an API, you must enable the image for programmatic use. In the Azure portal, find the marketplace image that you want to use and then click Want to deploy programmatically, Get Started ->. Enter any required information and then click Save.	Plan
properties	Describes the properties of a Virtual Machine.	VirtualMachineProperties
zones	The virtual machine zones.	Array of availability zones as string or int.

ExtendedLocation

Name	Description	Value
name	The name of the extended location.	string
type	The type of the extended location.	"EdgeZone"

VirtualMachineIdentity

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of identity used for the virtual machine. The type 'SystemAssigned, UserAssigned' includes both an implicitly created identity and a set of user assigned identities. The type 'None' will remove any identities from the virtual machine.	"SystemAssigned" "SystemAssigned, UserAssigned" "UserAssigned"
identity_ids	The list of user identities associated with the Virtual Machine. The user identity dictionary key references will be ARM resource ids in the form: '/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ManagedIdentity/userAssignedIdentities/{identityName}'.	Array of user identity IDs.

VirtualMachineIdentityUserAssignedIdentities

Name	Description	Value
{customized property}		UserAssignedIdentitiesValue

UserAssignedIdentitiesValue

This object doesn't contain any properties to set during deployment. All properties are ReadOnly.

Plan

Name	Description	Value
name	The plan ID.	string
product	Specifies the product of the image from the marketplace. This is the same value as Offer under the imageReference element.	string
promotionCode	The promotion code.	string
publisher	The publisher ID.	string

VirtualMachineProperties

Name	Description	Value
additionalCapabilities	Specifies additional capabilities enabled or disabled on the virtual machine.	AdditionalCapabilities
availabilitySet	Specifies information about the availability set that the virtual machine should be assigned to. Virtual machines specified in the same availability set are allocated to different nodes to maximize availability. For more information about availability sets, see Manage the availability of virtual machines. For more information on Azure planned maintenance, see Planned maintenance for virtual machines in Azure Currently, a VM can only be added to availability set at creation time. The availability set to which the VM is being added should be under the same resource group as the availability set resource. An existing VM cannot be added to an availability set. This property cannot exist along with a non-null properties.virtualMachineScaleSet reference.	SubResource
billingProfile	Specifies the billing related details of a Azure Spot virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01.	BillingProfile
diagnosticsProfile	Specifies the boot diagnostic settings state. Minimum api-version: 2015-06-15.	DiagnosticsProfile
evictionPolicy	Specifies the eviction policy for the Azure Spot virtual machine and Azure Spot scale set. For Azure Spot virtual machines, both 'Deallocate' and 'Delete' are supported and the minimum api-version is 2019-03-01. For Azure Spot scale sets, both 'Deallocate' and 'Delete' are supported and the minimum api-version is 2017-10-30-preview.	"Deallocate" "Delete"
extensionsTimeBudget	Specifies the time alloted for all extensions to start. The time duration should be between 15 minutes and 120 minutes (inclusive) and should be specified in ISO 8601 format. The default value is 90 minutes (PT1H30M). Minimum api-version: 2020-06-01	string
hardwareProfile	Specifies the hardware settings for the virtual machine.	HardwareProfile
host	Specifies information about the dedicated host that the virtual machine resides in. Minimum api-version: 2018-10-01.	SubResource
hostGroup	Specifies information about the dedicated host group that the virtual machine resides in. Minimum api-version: 2020-06-01. NOTE: User cannot specify both host and hostGroup properties.	SubResource
licenseType	Specifies that the image or disk that is being used was licensed on-premises. Possible values for Windows Server operating system are: Windows_Client Windows_Server Possible values for Linux Server operating system are: RHEL_BYOS (for RHEL) SLES_BYOS (for SUSE) For more information, see Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for Windows Server Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for Linux Server Minimum api-version: 2015-06-15	string
networkProfile	Specifies the network interfaces of the virtual machine.	NetworkProfile
osProfile	Specifies the operating system settings used while creating the virtual machine. Some of the settings cannot be changed once VM is provisioned.	OSProfile
platformFaultDomain	Specifies the scale set logical fault domain into which the Virtual Machine will be created. By default, the Virtual Machine will by automatically assigned to a fault domain that best maintains balance across available fault domains. {li}This is applicable only if the 'virtualMachineScaleSet' property of this Virtual Machine is set.{li}The Virtual Machine Scale Set that is referenced, must have 'platformFaultDomainCount' > 1.{li}This property cannot be updated once the Virtual Machine is created.{li}Fault domain assignment can be viewed in the Virtual Machine Instance View. Minimum api‐version: 2020‐12‐01	int
priority	Specifies the priority for the virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01	"Low" "Regular" "Spot"
proximityPlacementGroup	Specifies information about the proximity placement group that the virtual machine should be assigned to. Minimum api-version: 2018-04-01.	SubResource
securityProfile	Specifies the Security related profile settings for the virtual machine.	SecurityProfile
storageProfile	Specifies the storage settings for the virtual machine disks.	StorageProfile
virtualMachineScaleSet	Specifies information about the virtual machine scale set that the virtual machine should be assigned to. Virtual machines specified in the same virtual machine scale set are allocated to different nodes to maximize availability. Currently, a VM can only be added to virtual machine scale set at creation time. An existing VM cannot be added to a virtual machine scale set. This property cannot exist along with a non-null properties.availabilitySet reference. Minimum api‐version: 2019‐03‐01	SubResource

AdditionalCapabilities

Name	Description	Value
ultraSSDEnabled	The flag that enables or disables a capability to have one or more managed data disks with UltraSSD_LRS storage account type on the VM or VMSS. Managed disks with storage account type UltraSSD_LRS can be added to a virtual machine or virtual machine scale set only if this property is enabled.	bool

SubResource

Name	Description	Value
id	Resource Id	string

BillingProfile

Name	Description	Value
maxPrice	Specifies the maximum price you are willing to pay for a Azure Spot VM/VMSS. This price is in US Dollars. This price will be compared with the current Azure Spot price for the VM size. Also, the prices are compared at the time of create/update of Azure Spot VM/VMSS and the operation will only succeed if the maxPrice is greater than the current Azure Spot price. The maxPrice will also be used for evicting a Azure Spot VM/VMSS if the current Azure Spot price goes beyond the maxPrice after creation of VM/VMSS. Possible values are: - Any decimal value greater than zero. Example: 0.01538 -1 – indicates default price to be up-to on-demand. You can set the maxPrice to -1 to indicate that the Azure Spot VM/VMSS should not be evicted for price reasons. Also, the default max price is -1 if it is not provided by you. Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01. Specify a decimal value as a string.	int or json decimal

DiagnosticsProfile

Name	Description	Value
bootDiagnostics	Boot Diagnostics is a debugging feature which allows you to view Console Output and Screenshot to diagnose VM status. You can easily view the output of your console log. Azure also enables you to see a screenshot of the VM from the hypervisor.	BootDiagnostics

BootDiagnostics

Name	Description	Value
enabled	Whether boot diagnostics should be enabled on the Virtual Machine.	bool
storageUri	Uri of the storage account to use for placing the console output and screenshot. If storageUri is not specified while enabling boot diagnostics, managed storage will be used.	string

HardwareProfile

Name	Description	Value
vmSize	Specifies the size of the virtual machine. The enum data type is currently deprecated and will be removed by December 23rd 2023. Recommended way to get the list of available sizes is using these APIs: List all available virtual machine sizes in an availability set List all available virtual machine sizes in a region List all available virtual machine sizes for resizing. For more information about virtual machine sizes, see Sizes for virtual machines. The available VM sizes depend on region and availability set.	"Basic_A0" "Basic_A1" "Basic_A2" "Basic_A3" "Basic_A4" "Standard_A0" "Standard_A1" "Standard_A10" "Standard_A11" "Standard_A1_v2" "Standard_A2" "Standard_A2_v2" "Standard_A2m_v2" "Standard_A3" "Standard_A4" "Standard_A4_v2" "Standard_A4m_v2" "Standard_A5" "Standard_A6" "Standard_A7" "Standard_A8" "Standard_A8_v2" "Standard_A8m_v2" "Standard_A9" "Standard_B1ms" "Standard_B1s" "Standard_B2ms" "Standard_B2s" "Standard_B4ms" "Standard_B8ms" "Standard_D1" "Standard_D11" "Standard_D11_v2" "Standard_D12" "Standard_D12_v2" "Standard_D13" "Standard_D13_v2" "Standard_D14" "Standard_D14_v2" "Standard_D15_v2" "Standard_D16_v3" "Standard_D16s_v3" "Standard_D1_v2" "Standard_D2" "Standard_D2_v2" "Standard_D2_v3" "Standard_D2s_v3" "Standard_D3" "Standard_D32_v3" "Standard_D32s_v3" "Standard_D3_v2" "Standard_D4" "Standard_D4_v2" "Standard_D4_v3" "Standard_D4s_v3" "Standard_D5_v2" "Standard_D64_v3" "Standard_D64s_v3" "Standard_D8_v3" "Standard_D8s_v3" "Standard_DS1" "Standard_DS11" "Standard_DS11_v2" "Standard_DS12" "Standard_DS12_v2" "Standard_DS13" "Standard_DS13-2_v2" "Standard_DS13-4_v2" "Standard_DS13_v2" "Standard_DS14" "Standard_DS14-4_v2" "Standard_DS14-8_v2" "Standard_DS14_v2" "Standard_DS15_v2" "Standard_DS1_v2" "Standard_DS2" "Standard_DS2_v2" "Standard_DS3" "Standard_DS3_v2" "Standard_DS4" "Standard_DS4_v2" "Standard_DS5_v2" "Standard_E16_v3" "Standard_E16s_v3" "Standard_E2_v3" "Standard_E2s_v3" "Standard_E32-16_v3" "Standard_E32-8s_v3" "Standard_E32_v3" "Standard_E32s_v3" "Standard_E4_v3" "Standard_E4s_v3" "Standard_E64-16s_v3" "Standard_E64-32s_v3" "Standard_E64_v3" "Standard_E64s_v3" "Standard_E8_v3" "Standard_E8s_v3" "Standard_F1" "Standard_F16" "Standard_F16s" "Standard_F16s_v2" "Standard_F1s" "Standard_F2" "Standard_F2s" "Standard_F2s_v2" "Standard_F32s_v2" "Standard_F4" "Standard_F4s" "Standard_F4s_v2" "Standard_F64s_v2" "Standard_F72s_v2" "Standard_F8" "Standard_F8s" "Standard_F8s_v2" "Standard_G1" "Standard_G2" "Standard_G3" "Standard_G4" "Standard_G5" "Standard_GS1" "Standard_GS2" "Standard_GS3" "Standard_GS4" "Standard_GS4-4" "Standard_GS4-8" "Standard_GS5" "Standard_GS5-16" "Standard_GS5-8" "Standard_H16" "Standard_H16m" "Standard_H16mr" "Standard_H16r" "Standard_H8" "Standard_H8m" "Standard_L16s" "Standard_L32s" "Standard_L4s" "Standard_L8s" "Standard_M128-32ms" "Standard_M128-64ms" "Standard_M128ms" "Standard_M128s" "Standard_M64-16ms" "Standard_M64-32ms" "Standard_M64ms" "Standard_M64s" "Standard_NC12" "Standard_NC12s_v2" "Standard_NC12s_v3" "Standard_NC24" "Standard_NC24r" "Standard_NC24rs_v2" "Standard_NC24rs_v3" "Standard_NC24s_v2" "Standard_NC24s_v3" "Standard_NC6" "Standard_NC6s_v2" "Standard_NC6s_v3" "Standard_ND12s" "Standard_ND24rs" "Standard_ND24s" "Standard_ND6s" "Standard_NV12" "Standard_NV24" "Standard_NV6"

NetworkProfile

Name	Description	Value
networkInterfaces	Specifies the list of resource Ids for the network interfaces associated with the virtual machine.	NetworkInterfaceReference[]

NetworkInterfaceReference

Name	Description	Value
id	Resource Id	string
properties	Describes a network interface reference properties.	NetworkInterfaceReferenceProperties

NetworkInterfaceReferenceProperties

Name	Description	Value
primary	Specifies the primary network interface in case the virtual machine has more than 1 network interface.	bool

OSProfile

Name	Description	Value
adminPassword	Specifies the password of the administrator account. Minimum-length (Windows): 8 characters Minimum-length (Linux): 6 characters Max-length (Windows): 123 characters Max-length (Linux): 72 characters Complexity requirements: 3 out of 4 conditions below need to be fulfilled Has lower characters Has upper characters Has a digit Has a special character (Regex match [\W_]) Disallowed values: "abc@123", "P@$$w0rd", "P@ssw0rd", "P@ssword123", "Pa$$word", "pass@word1", "Password!", "Password1", "Password22", "iloveyou!" For resetting the password, see How to reset the Remote Desktop service or its login password in a Windows VM For resetting root password, see Manage users, SSH, and check or repair disks on Azure Linux VMs using the VMAccess Extension	string Constraints: Sensitive value. Pass in as a secure parameter.
adminUsername	Specifies the name of the administrator account. This property cannot be updated after the VM is created. Windows-only restriction: Cannot end in "." Disallowed values: "administrator", "admin", "user", "user1", "test", "user2", "test1", "user3", "admin1", "1", "123", "a", "actuser", "adm", "admin2", "aspnet", "backup", "console", "david", "guest", "john", "owner", "root", "server", "sql", "support", "support_388945a0", "sys", "test2", "test3", "user4", "user5". Minimum-length (Linux): 1 character Max-length (Linux): 64 characters Max-length (Windows): 20 characters {li} For root access to the Linux VM, see Using root privileges on Linux virtual machines in Azure {li} For a list of built-in system users on Linux that should not be used in this field, see Selecting User Names for Linux on Azure	string
allowExtensionOperations	Specifies whether extension operations should be allowed on the virtual machine. This may only be set to False when no extensions are present on the virtual machine.	bool
computerName	Specifies the host OS name of the virtual machine. This name cannot be updated after the VM is created. Max-length (Windows): 15 characters Max-length (Linux): 64 characters. For naming conventions and restrictions see Azure infrastructure services implementation guidelines.	string
customData	Specifies a base-64 encoded string of custom data. The base-64 encoded string is decoded to a binary array that is saved as a file on the Virtual Machine. The maximum length of the binary array is 65535 bytes. Note: Do not pass any secrets or passwords in customData property This property cannot be updated after the VM is created. customData is passed to the VM to be saved as a file, for more information see Custom Data on Azure VMs For using cloud-init for your Linux VM, see Using cloud-init to customize a Linux VM during creation	string
linuxConfiguration	Specifies the Linux operating system settings on the virtual machine. For a list of supported Linux distributions, see Linux on Azure-Endorsed Distributions For running non-endorsed distributions, see Information for Non-Endorsed Distributions.	LinuxConfiguration
requireGuestProvisionSignal	Specifies whether the guest provision signal is required to infer provision success of the virtual machine. Note: This property is for private testing only, and all customers must not set the property to false.	bool
secrets	Specifies set of certificates that should be installed onto the virtual machine.	VaultSecretGroup[]
windowsConfiguration	Specifies Windows operating system settings on the virtual machine.	WindowsConfiguration

LinuxConfiguration

Name	Description	Value
disablePasswordAuthentication	Specifies whether password authentication should be disabled.	bool
patchSettings	[Preview Feature] Specifies settings related to VM Guest Patching on Linux.	LinuxPatchSettings
provisionVMAgent	Indicates whether virtual machine agent should be provisioned on the virtual machine. When this property is not specified in the request body, default behavior is to set it to true. This will ensure that VM Agent is installed on the VM so that extensions can be added to the VM later.	bool
ssh	Specifies the ssh key configuration for a Linux OS.	SshConfiguration

LinuxPatchSettings

Name	Description	Value
patchMode	Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patching to IaaS virtual machine. Possible values are: ImageDefault - The virtual machine's default patching configuration is used. AutomaticByPlatform - The virtual machine will be automatically updated by the platform. The property provisionVMAgent must be true	"AutomaticByPlatform" "ImageDefault"

SshConfiguration

Name	Description	Value
publicKeys	The list of SSH public keys used to authenticate with linux based VMs.	SshPublicKey[]

SshPublicKey

Name	Description	Value
keyData	SSH public key certificate used to authenticate with the VM through ssh. The key needs to be at least 2048-bit and in ssh-rsa format. For creating ssh keys, see Create SSH keys on Linux and Mac for Linux VMs in Azure.	string
path	Specifies the full path on the created VM where ssh public key is stored. If the file already exists, the specified key is appended to the file. Example: /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys	string

VaultSecretGroup

Name	Description	Value
sourceVault	The relative URL of the Key Vault containing all of the certificates in VaultCertificates.	SubResource
vaultCertificates	The list of key vault references in SourceVault which contain certificates.	VaultCertificate[]

VaultCertificate

Name	Description	Value
certificateStore	For Windows VMs, specifies the certificate store on the Virtual Machine to which the certificate should be added. The specified certificate store is implicitly in the LocalMachine account. For Linux VMs, the certificate file is placed under the /var/lib/waagent directory, with the file name <UppercaseThumbprint>.crt for the X509 certificate file and <UppercaseThumbprint>.prv for private key. Both of these files are .pem formatted.	string
certificateUrl	This is the URL of a certificate that has been uploaded to Key Vault as a secret. For adding a secret to the Key Vault, see Add a key or secret to the key vault. In this case, your certificate needs to be It is the Base64 encoding of the following JSON Object which is encoded in UTF-8: { "data":"{Base64-encoded-certificate}", "dataType":"pfx", "password":"{pfx-file-password}" }	string

WindowsConfiguration

Name	Description	Value
additionalUnattendContent	Specifies additional base-64 encoded XML formatted information that can be included in the Unattend.xml file, which is used by Windows Setup.	AdditionalUnattendContent[]
enableAutomaticUpdates	Indicates whether Automatic Updates is enabled for the Windows virtual machine. Default value is true. For virtual machine scale sets, this property can be updated and updates will take effect on OS reprovisioning.	bool
patchSettings	[Preview Feature] Specifies settings related to VM Guest Patching on Windows.	PatchSettings
provisionVMAgent	Indicates whether virtual machine agent should be provisioned on the virtual machine. When this property is not specified in the request body, default behavior is to set it to true. This will ensure that VM Agent is installed on the VM so that extensions can be added to the VM later.	bool
timeZone	Specifies the time zone of the virtual machine. e.g. "Pacific Standard Time". Possible values can be TimeZoneInfo.Id value from time zones returned by TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones.	string
winRM	Specifies the Windows Remote Management listeners. This enables remote Windows PowerShell.	WinRMConfiguration

AdditionalUnattendContent

Name	Description	Value
componentName	The component name. Currently, the only allowable value is Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup.	"Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup"
content	Specifies the XML formatted content that is added to the unattend.xml file for the specified path and component. The XML must be less than 4KB and must include the root element for the setting or feature that is being inserted.	string
passName	The pass name. Currently, the only allowable value is OobeSystem.	"OobeSystem"
settingName	Specifies the name of the setting to which the content applies. Possible values are: FirstLogonCommands and AutoLogon.	"AutoLogon" "FirstLogonCommands"

PatchSettings

Name	Description	Value
enableHotpatching	Enables customers to patch their Azure VMs without requiring a reboot. For enableHotpatching, the 'provisionVMAgent' must be set to true and 'patchMode' must be set to 'AutomaticByPlatform'.	bool
patchMode	Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patching to IaaS virtual machine. Possible values are: Manual - You control the application of patches to a virtual machine. You do this by applying patches manually inside the VM. In this mode, automatic updates are disabled; the property WindowsConfiguration.enableAutomaticUpdates must be false AutomaticByOS - The virtual machine will automatically be updated by the OS. The property WindowsConfiguration.enableAutomaticUpdates must be true. AutomaticByPlatform - the virtual machine will automatically updated by the platform. The properties provisionVMAgent and WindowsConfiguration.enableAutomaticUpdates must be true	"AutomaticByOS" "AutomaticByPlatform" "Manual"

WinRMConfiguration

Name	Description	Value
listeners	The list of Windows Remote Management listeners	WinRMListener[]

WinRMListener

Name	Description	Value
certificateUrl	This is the URL of a certificate that has been uploaded to Key Vault as a secret. For adding a secret to the Key Vault, see Add a key or secret to the key vault. In this case, your certificate needs to be It is the Base64 encoding of the following JSON Object which is encoded in UTF-8: { "data":"{Base64-encoded-certificate}", "dataType":"pfx", "password":"{pfx-file-password}" }	string
protocol	Specifies the protocol of WinRM listener. Possible values are: http https	"Http" "Https"

SecurityProfile

Name	Description	Value
encryptionAtHost	This property can be used by user in the request to enable or disable the Host Encryption for the virtual machine or virtual machine scale set. This will enable the encryption for all the disks including Resource/Temp disk at host itself. Default: The Encryption at host will be disabled unless this property is set to true for the resource.	bool
securityType	Specifies the SecurityType of the virtual machine. It is set as TrustedLaunch to enable UefiSettings. Default: UefiSettings will not be enabled unless this property is set as TrustedLaunch.	"TrustedLaunch"
uefiSettings	Specifies the security settings like secure boot and vTPM used while creating the virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01	UefiSettings

UefiSettings

Name	Description	Value
secureBootEnabled	Specifies whether secure boot should be enabled on the virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01	bool
vTpmEnabled	Specifies whether vTPM should be enabled on the virtual machine. Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01	bool

StorageProfile

Name	Description	Value
dataDisks	Specifies the parameters that are used to add a data disk to a virtual machine. For more information about disks, see About disks and VHDs for Azure virtual machines.	DataDisk[]
imageReference	Specifies information about the image to use. You can specify information about platform images, marketplace images, or virtual machine images. This element is required when you want to use a platform image, marketplace image, or virtual machine image, but is not used in other creation operations.	ImageReference
osDisk	Specifies information about the operating system disk used by the virtual machine. For more information about disks, see About disks and VHDs for Azure virtual machines.	OSDisk

DataDisk

Name	Description	Value
caching	Specifies the caching requirements. Possible values are: None ReadOnly ReadWrite Default: None for Standard storage. ReadOnly for Premium storage	"None" "ReadOnly" "ReadWrite"
createOption	Specifies how the virtual machine should be created. Possible values are: Attach \u2013 This value is used when you are using a specialized disk to create the virtual machine. FromImage \u2013 This value is used when you are using an image to create the virtual machine. If you are using a platform image, you also use the imageReference element described above. If you are using a marketplace image, you also use the plan element previously described.	"Attach" "Empty" "FromImage" (required)
detachOption	Specifies the detach behavior to be used while detaching a disk or which is already in the process of detachment from the virtual machine. Supported values: ForceDetach. detachOption: ForceDetach is applicable only for managed data disks. If a previous detachment attempt of the data disk did not complete due to an unexpected failure from the virtual machine and the disk is still not released then use force-detach as a last resort option to detach the disk forcibly from the VM. All writes might not have been flushed when using this detach behavior. This feature is still in preview mode and is not supported for VirtualMachineScaleSet. To force-detach a data disk update toBeDetached to 'true' along with setting detachOption: 'ForceDetach'.	"ForceDetach"
diskSizeGB	Specifies the size of an empty data disk in gigabytes. This element can be used to overwrite the size of the disk in a virtual machine image. This value cannot be larger than 1023 GB	int
image	The source user image virtual hard disk. The virtual hard disk will be copied before being attached to the virtual machine. If SourceImage is provided, the destination virtual hard drive must not exist.	VirtualHardDisk
lun	Specifies the logical unit number of the data disk. This value is used to identify data disks within the VM and therefore must be unique for each data disk attached to a VM.	int (required)
managedDisk	The managed disk parameters.	ManagedDiskParameters
name	The disk name.	string
toBeDetached	Specifies whether the data disk is in process of detachment from the VirtualMachine/VirtualMachineScaleset	bool
vhd	The virtual hard disk.	VirtualHardDisk
writeAcceleratorEnabled	Specifies whether writeAccelerator should be enabled or disabled on the disk.	bool

VirtualHardDisk

Name	Description	Value
uri	Specifies the virtual hard disk's uri.	string

ManagedDiskParameters

Name	Description	Value
diskEncryptionSet	Specifies the customer managed disk encryption set resource id for the managed disk.	DiskEncryptionSetParameters
id	Resource Id	string
storageAccountType	Specifies the storage account type for the managed disk. Managed OS disk storage account type can only be set when you create the scale set. NOTE: UltraSSD_LRS can only be used with data disks, it cannot be used with OS Disk.	"Premium_LRS" "Premium_ZRS" "StandardSSD_LRS" "StandardSSD_ZRS" "Standard_LRS" "UltraSSD_LRS"

DiskEncryptionSetParameters

Name	Description	Value
id	Resource Id	string

ImageReference

Name	Description	Value
id	Resource Id	string
offer	Specifies the offer of the platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine.	string
publisher	The image publisher.	string
sku	The image SKU.	string
version	Specifies the version of the platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine. The allowed formats are Major.Minor.Build or 'latest'. Major, Minor, and Build are decimal numbers. Specify 'latest' to use the latest version of an image available at deploy time. Even if you use 'latest', the VM image will not automatically update after deploy time even if a new version becomes available.	string

OSDisk

Name	Description	Value
caching	Specifies the caching requirements. Possible values are: None ReadOnly ReadWrite Default: None for Standard storage. ReadOnly for Premium storage.	"None" "ReadOnly" "ReadWrite"
createOption	Specifies how the virtual machine should be created. Possible values are: Attach \u2013 This value is used when you are using a specialized disk to create the virtual machine. FromImage \u2013 This value is used when you are using an image to create the virtual machine. If you are using a platform image, you also use the imageReference element described above. If you are using a marketplace image, you also use the plan element previously described.	"Attach" "Empty" "FromImage" (required)
diffDiskSettings	Specifies the ephemeral Disk Settings for the operating system disk used by the virtual machine.	DiffDiskSettings
diskSizeGB	Specifies the size of an empty data disk in gigabytes. This element can be used to overwrite the size of the disk in a virtual machine image. This value cannot be larger than 1023 GB	int
encryptionSettings	Specifies the encryption settings for the OS Disk. Minimum api-version: 2015-06-15	DiskEncryptionSettings
image	The source user image virtual hard disk. The virtual hard disk will be copied before being attached to the virtual machine. If SourceImage is provided, the destination virtual hard drive must not exist.	VirtualHardDisk
managedDisk	The managed disk parameters.	ManagedDiskParameters
name	The disk name.	string
osType	This property allows you to specify the type of the OS that is included in the disk if creating a VM from user-image or a specialized VHD. Possible values are: Windows Linux	"Linux" "Windows"
vhd	The virtual hard disk.	VirtualHardDisk
writeAcceleratorEnabled	Specifies whether writeAccelerator should be enabled or disabled on the disk.	bool

DiffDiskSettings

Name	Description	Value
option	Specifies the ephemeral disk settings for operating system disk.	"Local"
placement	Specifies the ephemeral disk placement for operating system disk. Possible values are: CacheDisk ResourceDisk Default: CacheDisk if one is configured for the VM size otherwise ResourceDisk is used. Refer to VM size documentation for Windows VM at /azure/virtual-machines/windows/sizes and Linux VM at /azure/virtual-machines/linux/sizes to check which VM sizes exposes a cache disk.	"CacheDisk" "ResourceDisk"

DiskEncryptionSettings

Name	Description	Value
diskEncryptionKey	Specifies the location of the disk encryption key, which is a Key Vault Secret.	KeyVaultSecretReference
enabled	Specifies whether disk encryption should be enabled on the virtual machine.	bool
keyEncryptionKey	Specifies the location of the key encryption key in Key Vault.	KeyVaultKeyReference

KeyVaultSecretReference

Name	Description	Value
secretUrl	The URL referencing a secret in a Key Vault.	string (required)
sourceVault	The relative URL of the Key Vault containing the secret.	SubResource (required)

KeyVaultKeyReference

Name	Description	Value
keyUrl	The URL referencing a key encryption key in Key Vault.	string (required)
sourceVault	The relative URL of the Key Vault containing the key.	SubResource (required)