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Virtual Machine Scale Sets - List

Gets a list of all VM scale sets under a resource group.

HTTP
GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets?api-version=2021-07-01

URI Parameters

Name In Required Type Description
resourceGroupName
path True

string

The name of the resource group.

subscriptionId
path True

string

Subscription credentials which uniquely identify Microsoft Azure subscription. The subscription ID forms part of the URI for every service call.

api-version
query True

string

Client Api Version.

Responses

Name Type Description
200 OK

VirtualMachineScaleSetListResult

OK

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name Description
user_impersonation impersonate your user account

Definitions

Name Description
AdditionalCapabilities

Enables or disables a capability on the virtual machine or virtual machine scale set.

AdditionalUnattendContent

Specifies additional XML formatted information that can be included in the Unattend.xml file, which is used by Windows Setup. Contents are defined by setting name, component name, and the pass in which the content is applied.

ApiEntityReference

The API entity reference.

ApplicationProfile

Contains the list of gallery applications that should be made available to the VM/VMSS

AutomaticOSUpgradePolicy

The configuration parameters used for performing automatic OS upgrade.

AutomaticRepairsPolicy

Specifies the configuration parameters for automatic repairs on the virtual machine scale set.

BillingProfile

Specifies the billing related details of a Azure Spot VM or VMSS.

Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01.

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.

CachingTypes

Gets the caching type.

CapacityReservationProfile

The parameters of a capacity reservation Profile.

ComponentNames

The component name. Currently, the only allowable value is Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup.

DeleteOptions

Specify what happens to the network interface when the VM is deleted

DiagnosticsProfile

Specifies the boot diagnostic settings state.

Minimum api-version: 2015-06-15.

DiffDiskOptions

Specifies the ephemeral disk settings for operating system disk.

DiffDiskPlacement

Specifies the ephemeral disk placement for operating system disk. This property can be used by user in the request to choose the location i.e, cache disk or resource disk space for Ephemeral OS disk provisioning. For more information on Ephemeral OS disk size requirements, please refer Ephemeral OS disk size requirements for Windows VM at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/windows/ephemeral-os-disks#size-requirements and Linux VM at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/linux/ephemeral-os-disks#size-requirements

DiffDiskSettings

Describes the parameters of ephemeral disk settings that can be specified for operating system disk.

NOTE: The ephemeral disk settings can only be specified for managed disk.

DiskCreateOptionTypes

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.

DiskEncryptionSetParameters

Describes the parameter of customer managed disk encryption set resource id that can be specified for disk.

NOTE: The disk encryption set resource id can only be specified for managed disk. Please refer https://aka.ms/mdssewithcmkoverview for more details.

ExtendedLocation

The complex type of the extended location.

ExtendedLocationTypes

The type of the extended location.

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. NOTE: Image reference publisher and offer can only be set when you create the scale set.

IPVersion

Available from Api-Version 2019-07-01 onwards, it represents whether the specific ipconfiguration is IPv4 or IPv6. Default is taken as IPv4. Possible values are: 'IPv4' and 'IPv6'.

LinuxConfiguration

Specifies the Linux operating system settings on the virtual machine.

For a list of supported Linux distributions, see Linux on Azure-Endorsed Distributions.

LinuxPatchAssessmentMode

Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patch Assessment for the IaaS virtual machine.

Possible values are:

ImageDefault - You control the timing of patch assessments on a virtual machine.

AutomaticByPlatform - The platform will trigger periodic patch assessments. The property provisionVMAgent must be true.

LinuxPatchSettings

Specifies settings related to VM Guest Patching on Linux.

LinuxVMGuestPatchMode

Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patching to IaaS virtual machine or virtual machines associated to virtual machine scale set with OrchestrationMode as Flexible.

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

NetworkApiVersion

specifies the Microsoft.Network API version used when creating networking resources in the Network Interface Configurations

OperatingSystemTypes

The operating system of the osDiskImage.

OrchestrationMode

Specifies the orchestration mode for the virtual machine scale set.

PassNames

The pass name. Currently, the only allowable value is OobeSystem.

PatchSettings

Specifies settings related to VM Guest Patching on Windows.

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.

ProtocolTypes

Specifies the protocol of WinRM listener.

Possible values are:
http

https

PublicIPAddressSku

Describes the public IP Sku

PublicIPAddressSkuName

Specify public IP sku name

PublicIPAddressSkuTier

Specify public IP sku tier

ResourceIdentityType

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.

RollingUpgradePolicy

The configuration parameters used while performing a rolling upgrade.

ScaleInPolicy

Describes a scale-in policy for a virtual machine scale set.

ScheduledEventsProfile
SecurityProfile

Specifies the Security profile settings for the virtual machine or virtual machine scale set.

SecurityTypes

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.

SettingNames

Specifies the name of the setting to which the content applies. Possible values are: FirstLogonCommands and AutoLogon.

Sku

Describes a virtual machine scale set sku. NOTE: If the new VM SKU is not supported on the hardware the scale set is currently on, you need to deallocate the VMs in the scale set before you modify the SKU name.

SpotRestorePolicy

Specifies the Spot-Try-Restore properties for the virtual machine scale set.

With this property customer can enable or disable automatic restore of the evicted Spot VMSS VM instances opportunistically based on capacity availability and pricing constraint.

SshConfiguration

SSH configuration for Linux based VMs running on Azure

SshPublicKey

Contains information about SSH certificate public key and the path on the Linux VM where the public key is placed.

StorageAccountTypes

Specifies the storage account type for the managed disk. NOTE: UltraSSD_LRS can only be used with data disks, it cannot be used with OS Disk.

SubResource
TerminateNotificationProfile
UefiSettings

Specifies the security settings like secure boot and vTPM used while creating the virtual machine.

Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01

UpgradeMode

Specifies the mode of an upgrade to virtual machines in the scale set.

Possible values are:

Manual - You control the application of updates to virtual machines in the scale set. You do this by using the manualUpgrade action.

Automatic - All virtual machines in the scale set are automatically updated at the same time.

UpgradePolicy

Describes an upgrade policy - automatic, manual, or rolling.

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}'.

VaultCertificate

Describes a single certificate reference in a Key Vault, and where the certificate should reside on the VM.

VaultSecretGroup

Describes a set of certificates which are all in the same Key Vault.

VirtualHardDisk

Describes the uri of a disk.

VirtualMachineEvictionPolicyTypes

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.

VirtualMachinePriorityTypes

Specifies the priority for the virtual machine.

Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01

VirtualMachineScaleSet

Describes a Virtual Machine Scale Set.

VirtualMachineScaleSetDataDisk

Describes a virtual machine scale set data disk.

VirtualMachineScaleSetExtension

Describes a Virtual Machine Scale Set Extension.

VirtualMachineScaleSetExtensionProfile

Describes a virtual machine scale set extension profile.

VirtualMachineScaleSetIdentity

Identity for the virtual machine scale set.

VirtualMachineScaleSetIPConfiguration

Describes a virtual machine scale set network profile's IP configuration.

VirtualMachineScaleSetIpTag

Contains the IP tag associated with the public IP address.

VirtualMachineScaleSetListResult

The List Virtual Machine operation response.

VirtualMachineScaleSetManagedDiskParameters

Describes the parameters of a ScaleSet managed disk.

VirtualMachineScaleSetNetworkConfiguration

Describes a virtual machine scale set network profile's network configurations.

VirtualMachineScaleSetNetworkConfigurationDnsSettings

Describes a virtual machines scale sets network configuration's DNS settings.

VirtualMachineScaleSetNetworkProfile

Describes a virtual machine scale set network profile.

VirtualMachineScaleSetOSDisk

Describes a virtual machine scale set operating system disk.

VirtualMachineScaleSetOSProfile

Describes a virtual machine scale set OS profile.

VirtualMachineScaleSetPublicIPAddressConfiguration

Describes a virtual machines scale set IP Configuration's PublicIPAddress configuration

VirtualMachineScaleSetPublicIPAddressConfigurationDnsSettings

Describes a virtual machines scale sets network configuration's DNS settings.

VirtualMachineScaleSetScaleInRules

The rules to be followed when scaling-in a virtual machine scale set.

Possible values are:

Default When a virtual machine scale set is scaled in, the scale set will first be balanced across zones if it is a zonal scale set. Then, it will be balanced across Fault Domains as far as possible. Within each Fault Domain, the virtual machines chosen for removal will be the newest ones that are not protected from scale-in.

OldestVM When a virtual machine scale set is being scaled-in, the oldest virtual machines that are not protected from scale-in will be chosen for removal. For zonal virtual machine scale sets, the scale set will first be balanced across zones. Within each zone, the oldest virtual machines that are not protected will be chosen for removal.

NewestVM When a virtual machine scale set is being scaled-in, the newest virtual machines that are not protected from scale-in will be chosen for removal. For zonal virtual machine scale sets, the scale set will first be balanced across zones. Within each zone, the newest virtual machines that are not protected will be chosen for removal.

VirtualMachineScaleSetStorageProfile

Describes a virtual machine scale set storage profile.

VirtualMachineScaleSetVMProfile

Describes a virtual machine scale set virtual machine profile.

VMGalleryApplication

Specifies the required information to reference a compute gallery application version

WindowsConfiguration

Specifies Windows operating system settings on the virtual machine.

WindowsPatchAssessmentMode

Specifies the mode of VM Guest patch assessment for the IaaS virtual machine.

Possible values are:

ImageDefault - You control the timing of patch assessments on a virtual machine.

AutomaticByPlatform - The platform will trigger periodic patch assessments. The property provisionVMAgent must be true.

WindowsVMGuestPatchMode

Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patching to IaaS virtual machine or virtual machines associated to virtual machine scale set with OrchestrationMode as Flexible.

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

WinRMConfiguration

Describes Windows Remote Management configuration of the VM

WinRMListener

Describes Protocol and thumbprint of Windows Remote Management listener

AdditionalCapabilities

Enables or disables a capability on the virtual machine or virtual machine scale set.

Name Type Description
hibernationEnabled

boolean

The flag that enables or disables hibernation capability on the VM.

ultraSSDEnabled

boolean

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.

AdditionalUnattendContent

Specifies additional XML formatted information that can be included in the Unattend.xml file, which is used by Windows Setup. Contents are defined by setting name, component name, and the pass in which the content is applied.

Name Type Description
componentName

ComponentNames

The component name. Currently, the only allowable value is Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup.

content

string

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.

passName

PassNames

The pass name. Currently, the only allowable value is OobeSystem.

settingName

SettingNames

Specifies the name of the setting to which the content applies. Possible values are: FirstLogonCommands and AutoLogon.

ApiEntityReference

The API entity reference.

Name Type Description
id

string

The ARM resource id in the form of /subscriptions/{SubscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{ResourceGroupName}/...

ApplicationProfile

Contains the list of gallery applications that should be made available to the VM/VMSS

Name Type Description
galleryApplications

VMGalleryApplication[]

Specifies the gallery applications that should be made available to the VM/VMSS

AutomaticOSUpgradePolicy

The configuration parameters used for performing automatic OS upgrade.

Name Type Description
disableAutomaticRollback

boolean

Whether OS image rollback feature should be disabled. Default value is false.

enableAutomaticOSUpgrade

boolean

Indicates whether OS upgrades should automatically be applied to scale set instances in a rolling fashion when a newer version of the OS image becomes available. Default value is false.

If this is set to true for Windows based scale sets, enableAutomaticUpdates is automatically set to false and cannot be set to true.

AutomaticRepairsPolicy

Specifies the configuration parameters for automatic repairs on the virtual machine scale set.

Name Type Description
enabled

boolean

Specifies whether automatic repairs should be enabled on the virtual machine scale set. The default value is false.

gracePeriod

string

The amount of time for which automatic repairs are suspended due to a state change on VM. The grace time starts after the state change has completed. This helps avoid premature or accidental repairs. The time duration should be specified in ISO 8601 format. The minimum allowed grace period is 30 minutes (PT30M), which is also the default value. The maximum allowed grace period is 90 minutes (PT90M).

BillingProfile

Specifies the billing related details of a Azure Spot VM or VMSS.

Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01.

Name Type Description
maxPrice

number

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.

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.

Name Type Description
enabled

boolean

Whether boot diagnostics should be enabled on the Virtual Machine.

storageUri

string

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.

CachingTypes

Gets the caching type.

Value Description
None
ReadOnly
ReadWrite

CapacityReservationProfile

The parameters of a capacity reservation Profile.

Name Type Description
capacityReservationGroup

SubResource

Specifies the capacity reservation group resource id that should be used for allocating the virtual machine or scaleset vm instances provided enough capacity has been reserved. Please refer to https://aka.ms/CapacityReservation for more details.

ComponentNames

The component name. Currently, the only allowable value is Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup.

Value Description
Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup

DeleteOptions

Specify what happens to the network interface when the VM is deleted

Value Description
Delete
Detach

DiagnosticsProfile

Specifies the boot diagnostic settings state.

Minimum api-version: 2015-06-15.

Name Type Description
bootDiagnostics

BootDiagnostics

Boot Diagnostics is a debugging feature which allows you to view Console Output and Screenshot to diagnose VM status.
NOTE: If storageUri is being specified then ensure that the storage account is in the same region and subscription as the VM.

You can easily view the output of your console log.

Azure also enables you to see a screenshot of the VM from the hypervisor.

DiffDiskOptions

Specifies the ephemeral disk settings for operating system disk.

Value Description
Local

DiffDiskPlacement

Specifies the ephemeral disk placement for operating system disk. This property can be used by user in the request to choose the location i.e, cache disk or resource disk space for Ephemeral OS disk provisioning. For more information on Ephemeral OS disk size requirements, please refer Ephemeral OS disk size requirements for Windows VM at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/windows/ephemeral-os-disks#size-requirements and Linux VM at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/linux/ephemeral-os-disks#size-requirements

Value Description
CacheDisk
ResourceDisk

DiffDiskSettings

Describes the parameters of ephemeral disk settings that can be specified for operating system disk.

NOTE: The ephemeral disk settings can only be specified for managed disk.

Name Type Description
option

DiffDiskOptions

Specifies the ephemeral disk settings for operating system disk.

placement

DiffDiskPlacement

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 https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/windows/sizes and Linux VM at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/linux/sizes to check which VM sizes exposes a cache disk.

DiskCreateOptionTypes

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.

Value Description
Attach
Empty
FromImage

DiskEncryptionSetParameters

Describes the parameter of customer managed disk encryption set resource id that can be specified for disk.

NOTE: The disk encryption set resource id can only be specified for managed disk. Please refer https://aka.ms/mdssewithcmkoverview for more details.

Name Type Description
id

string

Resource Id

ExtendedLocation

The complex type of the extended location.

Name Type Description
name

string

The name of the extended location.

type

ExtendedLocationTypes

The type of the extended location.

ExtendedLocationTypes

The type of the extended location.

Value Description
EdgeZone

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. NOTE: Image reference publisher and offer can only be set when you create the scale set.

Name Type Description
exactVersion

string

Specifies in decimal numbers, the version of platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine. This readonly field differs from 'version', only if the value specified in 'version' field is 'latest'.

id

string

Resource Id

offer

string

Specifies the offer of the platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine.

publisher

string

The image publisher.

sharedGalleryImageId

string

Specified the shared gallery image unique id for vm deployment. This can be fetched from shared gallery image GET call.

sku

string

The image SKU.

version

string

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.

IPVersion

Available from Api-Version 2019-07-01 onwards, it represents whether the specific ipconfiguration is IPv4 or IPv6. Default is taken as IPv4. Possible values are: 'IPv4' and 'IPv6'.

Value Description
IPv4
IPv6

LinuxConfiguration

Specifies the Linux operating system settings on the virtual machine.

For a list of supported Linux distributions, see Linux on Azure-Endorsed Distributions.

Name Type Description
disablePasswordAuthentication

boolean

Specifies whether password authentication should be disabled.

patchSettings

LinuxPatchSettings

[Preview Feature] Specifies settings related to VM Guest Patching on Linux.

provisionVMAgent

boolean

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.

ssh

SshConfiguration

Specifies the ssh key configuration for a Linux OS.

LinuxPatchAssessmentMode

Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patch Assessment for the IaaS virtual machine.

Possible values are:

ImageDefault - You control the timing of patch assessments on a virtual machine.

AutomaticByPlatform - The platform will trigger periodic patch assessments. The property provisionVMAgent must be true.

Value Description
AutomaticByPlatform
ImageDefault

LinuxPatchSettings

Specifies settings related to VM Guest Patching on Linux.

Name Type Description
assessmentMode

LinuxPatchAssessmentMode

Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patch Assessment for the IaaS virtual machine.

Possible values are:

ImageDefault - You control the timing of patch assessments on a virtual machine.

AutomaticByPlatform - The platform will trigger periodic patch assessments. The property provisionVMAgent must be true.

patchMode

LinuxVMGuestPatchMode

Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patching to IaaS virtual machine or virtual machines associated to virtual machine scale set with OrchestrationMode as Flexible.

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

LinuxVMGuestPatchMode

Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patching to IaaS virtual machine or virtual machines associated to virtual machine scale set with OrchestrationMode as Flexible.

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

Value Description
AutomaticByPlatform
ImageDefault

NetworkApiVersion

specifies the Microsoft.Network API version used when creating networking resources in the Network Interface Configurations

Value Description
2020-11-01

OperatingSystemTypes

The operating system of the osDiskImage.

Value Description
Linux
Windows

OrchestrationMode

Specifies the orchestration mode for the virtual machine scale set.

Value Description
Flexible
Uniform

PassNames

The pass name. Currently, the only allowable value is OobeSystem.

Value Description
OobeSystem

PatchSettings

Specifies settings related to VM Guest Patching on Windows.

Name Type Description
assessmentMode

WindowsPatchAssessmentMode

Specifies the mode of VM Guest patch assessment for the IaaS virtual machine.

Possible values are:

ImageDefault - You control the timing of patch assessments on a virtual machine.

AutomaticByPlatform - The platform will trigger periodic patch assessments. The property provisionVMAgent must be true.

enableHotpatching

boolean

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'.

patchMode

WindowsVMGuestPatchMode

Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patching to IaaS virtual machine or virtual machines associated to virtual machine scale set with OrchestrationMode as Flexible.

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

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.

Name Type Description
name

string

The plan ID.

product

string

Specifies the product of the image from the marketplace. This is the same value as Offer under the imageReference element.

promotionCode

string

The promotion code.

publisher

string

The publisher ID.

ProtocolTypes

Specifies the protocol of WinRM listener.

Possible values are:
http

https

Value Description
Http
Https

PublicIPAddressSku

Describes the public IP Sku

Name Type Description
name

PublicIPAddressSkuName

Specify public IP sku name

tier

PublicIPAddressSkuTier

Specify public IP sku tier

PublicIPAddressSkuName

Specify public IP sku name

Value Description
Basic
Standard

PublicIPAddressSkuTier

Specify public IP sku tier

Value Description
Global
Regional

ResourceIdentityType

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.

Value Description
None
SystemAssigned
SystemAssigned, UserAssigned
UserAssigned

RollingUpgradePolicy

The configuration parameters used while performing a rolling upgrade.

Name Type Description
enableCrossZoneUpgrade

boolean

Allow VMSS to ignore AZ boundaries when constructing upgrade batches. Take into consideration the Update Domain and maxBatchInstancePercent to determine the batch size.

maxBatchInstancePercent

integer

The maximum percent of total virtual machine instances that will be upgraded simultaneously by the rolling upgrade in one batch. As this is a maximum, unhealthy instances in previous or future batches can cause the percentage of instances in a batch to decrease to ensure higher reliability. The default value for this parameter is 20%.

maxUnhealthyInstancePercent

integer

The maximum percentage of the total virtual machine instances in the scale set that can be simultaneously unhealthy, either as a result of being upgraded, or by being found in an unhealthy state by the virtual machine health checks before the rolling upgrade aborts. This constraint will be checked prior to starting any batch. The default value for this parameter is 20%.

maxUnhealthyUpgradedInstancePercent

integer

The maximum percentage of upgraded virtual machine instances that can be found to be in an unhealthy state. This check will happen after each batch is upgraded. If this percentage is ever exceeded, the rolling update aborts. The default value for this parameter is 20%.

pauseTimeBetweenBatches

string

The wait time between completing the update for all virtual machines in one batch and starting the next batch. The time duration should be specified in ISO 8601 format. The default value is 0 seconds (PT0S).

prioritizeUnhealthyInstances

boolean

Upgrade all unhealthy instances in a scale set before any healthy instances.

ScaleInPolicy

Describes a scale-in policy for a virtual machine scale set.

Name Type Description
forceDeletion

boolean

This property allows you to specify if virtual machines chosen for removal have to be force deleted when a virtual machine scale set is being scaled-in.(Feature in Preview)

rules

VirtualMachineScaleSetScaleInRules[]

The rules to be followed when scaling-in a virtual machine scale set.

Possible values are:

Default When a virtual machine scale set is scaled in, the scale set will first be balanced across zones if it is a zonal scale set. Then, it will be balanced across Fault Domains as far as possible. Within each Fault Domain, the virtual machines chosen for removal will be the newest ones that are not protected from scale-in.

OldestVM When a virtual machine scale set is being scaled-in, the oldest virtual machines that are not protected from scale-in will be chosen for removal. For zonal virtual machine scale sets, the scale set will first be balanced across zones. Within each zone, the oldest virtual machines that are not protected will be chosen for removal.

NewestVM When a virtual machine scale set is being scaled-in, the newest virtual machines that are not protected from scale-in will be chosen for removal. For zonal virtual machine scale sets, the scale set will first be balanced across zones. Within each zone, the newest virtual machines that are not protected will be chosen for removal.

ScheduledEventsProfile

Name Type Description
terminateNotificationProfile

TerminateNotificationProfile

Specifies Terminate Scheduled Event related configurations.

SecurityProfile

Specifies the Security profile settings for the virtual machine or virtual machine scale set.

Name Type Description
encryptionAtHost

boolean

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.

securityType

SecurityTypes

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.

uefiSettings

UefiSettings

Specifies the security settings like secure boot and vTPM used while creating the virtual machine.

Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01

SecurityTypes

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.

Value Description
TrustedLaunch

SettingNames

Specifies the name of the setting to which the content applies. Possible values are: FirstLogonCommands and AutoLogon.

Value Description
AutoLogon
FirstLogonCommands

Sku

Describes a virtual machine scale set sku. NOTE: If the new VM SKU is not supported on the hardware the scale set is currently on, you need to deallocate the VMs in the scale set before you modify the SKU name.

Name Type Description
capacity

integer

Specifies the number of virtual machines in the scale set.

name

string

The sku name.

tier

string

Specifies the tier of virtual machines in a scale set.

Possible Values:

Standard

Basic

SpotRestorePolicy

Specifies the Spot-Try-Restore properties for the virtual machine scale set.

With this property customer can enable or disable automatic restore of the evicted Spot VMSS VM instances opportunistically based on capacity availability and pricing constraint.

Name Type Description
enabled

boolean

Enables the Spot-Try-Restore feature where evicted VMSS SPOT instances will be tried to be restored opportunistically based on capacity availability and pricing constraints

restoreTimeout

string

Timeout value expressed as an ISO 8601 time duration after which the platform will not try to restore the VMSS SPOT instances

SshConfiguration

SSH configuration for Linux based VMs running on Azure

Name Type Description
publicKeys

SshPublicKey[]

The list of SSH public keys used to authenticate with linux based VMs.

SshPublicKey

Contains information about SSH certificate public key and the path on the Linux VM where the public key is placed.

Name Type Description
keyData

string

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]https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/linux/create-ssh-keys-detailed).

path

string

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

StorageAccountTypes

Specifies the storage account type for the managed disk. NOTE: UltraSSD_LRS can only be used with data disks, it cannot be used with OS Disk.

Value Description
Premium_LRS
Premium_ZRS
StandardSSD_LRS
StandardSSD_ZRS
Standard_LRS
UltraSSD_LRS

SubResource

Name Type Description
id

string

Resource Id

TerminateNotificationProfile

Name Type Description
enable

boolean

Specifies whether the Terminate Scheduled event is enabled or disabled.

notBeforeTimeout

string

Configurable length of time a Virtual Machine being deleted will have to potentially approve the Terminate Scheduled Event before the event is auto approved (timed out). The configuration must be specified in ISO 8601 format, the default value is 5 minutes (PT5M)

UefiSettings

Specifies the security settings like secure boot and vTPM used while creating the virtual machine.

Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01

Name Type Description
secureBootEnabled

boolean

Specifies whether secure boot should be enabled on the virtual machine.

Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01

vTpmEnabled

boolean

Specifies whether vTPM should be enabled on the virtual machine.

Minimum api-version: 2020-12-01

UpgradeMode

Specifies the mode of an upgrade to virtual machines in the scale set.

Possible values are:

Manual - You control the application of updates to virtual machines in the scale set. You do this by using the manualUpgrade action.

Automatic - All virtual machines in the scale set are automatically updated at the same time.

Value Description
Automatic
Manual
Rolling

UpgradePolicy

Describes an upgrade policy - automatic, manual, or rolling.

Name Type Description
automaticOSUpgradePolicy

AutomaticOSUpgradePolicy

Configuration parameters used for performing automatic OS Upgrade.

mode

UpgradeMode

Specifies the mode of an upgrade to virtual machines in the scale set.

Possible values are:

Manual - You control the application of updates to virtual machines in the scale set. You do this by using the manualUpgrade action.

Automatic - All virtual machines in the scale set are automatically updated at the same time.

rollingUpgradePolicy

RollingUpgradePolicy

The configuration parameters used while performing a rolling upgrade.

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}'.

Name Type Description

VaultCertificate

Describes a single certificate reference in a Key Vault, and where the certificate should reside on the VM.

Name Type Description
certificateStore

string

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.

certificateUrl

string

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":"",
"dataType":"pfx",
"password":""
}
To install certificates on a virtual machine it is recommended to use the Azure Key Vault virtual machine extension for Linux or the Azure Key Vault virtual machine extension for Windows.

VaultSecretGroup

Describes a set of certificates which are all in the same Key Vault.

Name Type Description
sourceVault

SubResource

The relative URL of the Key Vault containing all of the certificates in VaultCertificates.

vaultCertificates

VaultCertificate[]

The list of key vault references in SourceVault which contain certificates.

VirtualHardDisk

Describes the uri of a disk.

Name Type Description
uri

string

Specifies the virtual hard disk's uri.

VirtualMachineEvictionPolicyTypes

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.

Value Description
Deallocate
Delete

VirtualMachinePriorityTypes

Specifies the priority for the virtual machine.

Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01

Value Description
Low
Regular
Spot

VirtualMachineScaleSet

Describes a Virtual Machine Scale Set.

Name Type Description
extendedLocation

ExtendedLocation

The extended location of the Virtual Machine Scale Set.

id

string

Resource Id

identity

VirtualMachineScaleSetIdentity

The identity of the virtual machine scale set, if configured.

location

string

Resource location

name

string

Resource name

plan

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.

properties.additionalCapabilities

AdditionalCapabilities

Specifies additional capabilities enabled or disabled on the Virtual Machines in the Virtual Machine Scale Set. For instance: whether the Virtual Machines have the capability to support attaching managed data disks with UltraSSD_LRS storage account type.

properties.automaticRepairsPolicy

AutomaticRepairsPolicy

Policy for automatic repairs.

properties.doNotRunExtensionsOnOverprovisionedVMs

boolean

When Overprovision is enabled, extensions are launched only on the requested number of VMs which are finally kept. This property will hence ensure that the extensions do not run on the extra overprovisioned VMs.

properties.hostGroup

SubResource

Specifies information about the dedicated host group that the virtual machine scale set resides in.

Minimum api-version: 2020-06-01.

properties.orchestrationMode

OrchestrationMode

Specifies the orchestration mode for the virtual machine scale set.

properties.overprovision

boolean

Specifies whether the Virtual Machine Scale Set should be overprovisioned.

properties.platformFaultDomainCount

integer

Fault Domain count for each placement group.

properties.provisioningState

string

The provisioning state, which only appears in the response.

properties.proximityPlacementGroup

SubResource

Specifies information about the proximity placement group that the virtual machine scale set should be assigned to.

Minimum api-version: 2018-04-01.

properties.scaleInPolicy

ScaleInPolicy

Specifies the policies applied when scaling in Virtual Machines in the Virtual Machine Scale Set.

properties.singlePlacementGroup

boolean

When true this limits the scale set to a single placement group, of max size 100 virtual machines. NOTE: If singlePlacementGroup is true, it may be modified to false. However, if singlePlacementGroup is false, it may not be modified to true.

properties.spotRestorePolicy

SpotRestorePolicy

Specifies the Spot Restore properties for the virtual machine scale set.

properties.uniqueId

string

Specifies the ID which uniquely identifies a Virtual Machine Scale Set.

properties.upgradePolicy

UpgradePolicy

The upgrade policy.

properties.virtualMachineProfile

VirtualMachineScaleSetVMProfile

The virtual machine profile.

properties.zoneBalance

boolean

Whether to force strictly even Virtual Machine distribution cross x-zones in case there is zone outage. zoneBalance property can only be set if the zones property of the scale set contains more than one zone. If there are no zones or only one zone specified, then zoneBalance property should not be set.

sku

Sku

The virtual machine scale set sku.

tags

object

Resource tags

type

string

Resource type

zones

string[]

The virtual machine scale set zones. NOTE: Availability zones can only be set when you create the scale set

VirtualMachineScaleSetDataDisk

Describes a virtual machine scale set data disk.

Name Type Description
caching

CachingTypes

Specifies the caching requirements.

Possible values are:

None

ReadOnly

ReadWrite

Default: None for Standard storage. ReadOnly for Premium storage

createOption

DiskCreateOptionTypes

The create option.

diskIOPSReadWrite

integer

Specifies the Read-Write IOPS for the managed disk. Should be used only when StorageAccountType is UltraSSD_LRS. If not specified, a default value would be assigned based on diskSizeGB.

diskMBpsReadWrite

integer

Specifies the bandwidth in MB per second for the managed disk. Should be used only when StorageAccountType is UltraSSD_LRS. If not specified, a default value would be assigned based on diskSizeGB.

diskSizeGB

integer

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

lun

integer

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.

managedDisk

VirtualMachineScaleSetManagedDiskParameters

The managed disk parameters.

name

string

The disk name.

writeAcceleratorEnabled

boolean

Specifies whether writeAccelerator should be enabled or disabled on the disk.

VirtualMachineScaleSetExtension

Describes a Virtual Machine Scale Set Extension.

Name Type Description
id

string

Resource Id

name

string

The name of the extension.

properties.autoUpgradeMinorVersion

boolean

Indicates whether the extension should use a newer minor version if one is available at deployment time. Once deployed, however, the extension will not upgrade minor versions unless redeployed, even with this property set to true.

properties.enableAutomaticUpgrade

boolean

Indicates whether the extension should be automatically upgraded by the platform if there is a newer version of the extension available.

properties.forceUpdateTag

string

If a value is provided and is different from the previous value, the extension handler will be forced to update even if the extension configuration has not changed.

properties.protectedSettings

object

The extension can contain either protectedSettings or protectedSettingsFromKeyVault or no protected settings at all.

properties.provisionAfterExtensions

string[]

Collection of extension names after which this extension needs to be provisioned.

properties.provisioningState

string

The provisioning state, which only appears in the response.

properties.publisher

string

The name of the extension handler publisher.

properties.settings

object

Json formatted public settings for the extension.

properties.suppressFailures

boolean

Indicates whether failures stemming from the extension will be suppressed (Operational failures such as not connecting to the VM will not be suppressed regardless of this value). The default is false.

properties.type

string

Specifies the type of the extension; an example is "CustomScriptExtension".

properties.typeHandlerVersion

string

Specifies the version of the script handler.

type

string

Resource type

VirtualMachineScaleSetExtensionProfile

Describes a virtual machine scale set extension profile.

Name Type Description
extensions

VirtualMachineScaleSetExtension[]

The virtual machine scale set child extension resources.

extensionsTimeBudget

string

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

VirtualMachineScaleSetIdentity

Identity for the virtual machine scale set.

Name Type Description
principalId

string

The principal id of virtual machine scale set identity. This property will only be provided for a system assigned identity.

tenantId

string

The tenant id associated with the virtual machine scale set. This property will only be provided for a system assigned identity.

type

ResourceIdentityType

The type of identity used for the virtual machine scale set. 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 scale set.

userAssignedIdentities

UserAssignedIdentities

The list of user identities associated with the virtual machine scale set. The user identity dictionary key references will be ARM resource ids in the form: '/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ManagedIdentity/userAssignedIdentities/{identityName}'.

VirtualMachineScaleSetIPConfiguration

Describes a virtual machine scale set network profile's IP configuration.

Name Type Description
id

string

Resource Id

name

string

The IP configuration name.

properties.applicationGatewayBackendAddressPools

SubResource[]

Specifies an array of references to backend address pools of application gateways. A scale set can reference backend address pools of multiple application gateways. Multiple scale sets cannot use the same application gateway.

properties.applicationSecurityGroups

SubResource[]

Specifies an array of references to application security group.

properties.loadBalancerBackendAddressPools

SubResource[]

Specifies an array of references to backend address pools of load balancers. A scale set can reference backend address pools of one public and one internal load balancer. Multiple scale sets cannot use the same basic sku load balancer.

properties.loadBalancerInboundNatPools

SubResource[]

Specifies an array of references to inbound Nat pools of the load balancers. A scale set can reference inbound nat pools of one public and one internal load balancer. Multiple scale sets cannot use the same basic sku load balancer.

properties.primary

boolean

Specifies the primary network interface in case the virtual machine has more than 1 network interface.

properties.privateIPAddressVersion

IPVersion

Available from Api-Version 2017-03-30 onwards, it represents whether the specific ipconfiguration is IPv4 or IPv6. Default is taken as IPv4. Possible values are: 'IPv4' and 'IPv6'.

properties.publicIPAddressConfiguration

VirtualMachineScaleSetPublicIPAddressConfiguration

The publicIPAddressConfiguration.

properties.subnet

ApiEntityReference

Specifies the identifier of the subnet.

VirtualMachineScaleSetIpTag

Contains the IP tag associated with the public IP address.

Name Type Description
ipTagType

string

IP tag type. Example: FirstPartyUsage.

tag

string

IP tag associated with the public IP. Example: SQL, Storage etc.

VirtualMachineScaleSetListResult

The List Virtual Machine operation response.

Name Type Description
nextLink

string

The uri to fetch the next page of Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Call ListNext() with this to fetch the next page of VMSS.

value

VirtualMachineScaleSet[]

The list of virtual machine scale sets.

VirtualMachineScaleSetManagedDiskParameters

Describes the parameters of a ScaleSet managed disk.

Name Type Description
diskEncryptionSet

DiskEncryptionSetParameters

Specifies the customer managed disk encryption set resource id for the managed disk.

storageAccountType

StorageAccountTypes

Specifies the storage account type for the managed disk. NOTE: UltraSSD_LRS can only be used with data disks, it cannot be used with OS Disk.

VirtualMachineScaleSetNetworkConfiguration

Describes a virtual machine scale set network profile's network configurations.

Name Type Description
id

string

Resource Id

name

string

The network configuration name.

properties.deleteOption

DeleteOptions

Specify what happens to the network interface when the VM is deleted

properties.dnsSettings

VirtualMachineScaleSetNetworkConfigurationDnsSettings

The dns settings to be applied on the network interfaces.

properties.enableAcceleratedNetworking

boolean

Specifies whether the network interface is accelerated networking-enabled.

properties.enableFpga

boolean

Specifies whether the network interface is FPGA networking-enabled.

properties.enableIPForwarding

boolean

Whether IP forwarding enabled on this NIC.

properties.ipConfigurations

VirtualMachineScaleSetIPConfiguration[]

Specifies the IP configurations of the network interface.

properties.networkSecurityGroup

SubResource

The network security group.

properties.primary

boolean

Specifies the primary network interface in case the virtual machine has more than 1 network interface.

VirtualMachineScaleSetNetworkConfigurationDnsSettings

Describes a virtual machines scale sets network configuration's DNS settings.

Name Type Description
dnsServers

string[]

List of DNS servers IP addresses

VirtualMachineScaleSetNetworkProfile

Describes a virtual machine scale set network profile.

Name Type Description
healthProbe

ApiEntityReference

A reference to a load balancer probe used to determine the health of an instance in the virtual machine scale set. The reference will be in the form: '/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/{loadBalancerName}/probes/{probeName}'.

networkApiVersion

NetworkApiVersion

specifies the Microsoft.Network API version used when creating networking resources in the Network Interface Configurations for Virtual Machine Scale Set with orchestration mode 'Flexible'

networkInterfaceConfigurations

VirtualMachineScaleSetNetworkConfiguration[]

The list of network configurations.

VirtualMachineScaleSetOSDisk

Describes a virtual machine scale set operating system disk.

Name Type Description
caching

CachingTypes

Specifies the caching requirements.

Possible values are:

None

ReadOnly

ReadWrite

Default: None for Standard storage. ReadOnly for Premium storage

createOption

DiskCreateOptionTypes

Specifies how the virtual machines in the scale set should be created.

The only allowed value is: 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.

diffDiskSettings

DiffDiskSettings

Specifies the ephemeral disk Settings for the operating system disk used by the virtual machine scale set.

diskSizeGB

integer

Specifies the size of the operating system 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

image

VirtualHardDisk

Specifies information about the unmanaged user image to base the scale set on.

managedDisk

VirtualMachineScaleSetManagedDiskParameters

The managed disk parameters.

name

string

The disk name.

osType

OperatingSystemTypes

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

vhdContainers

string[]

Specifies the container urls that are used to store operating system disks for the scale set.

writeAcceleratorEnabled

boolean

Specifies whether writeAccelerator should be enabled or disabled on the disk.

VirtualMachineScaleSetOSProfile

Describes a virtual machine scale set OS profile.

Name Type Description
adminPassword

string

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

adminUsername

string

Specifies the name of the administrator account.

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

computerNamePrefix

string

Specifies the computer name prefix for all of the virtual machines in the scale set. Computer name prefixes must be 1 to 15 characters long.

customData

string

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.

For using cloud-init for your VM, see Using cloud-init to customize a Linux VM during creation

linuxConfiguration

LinuxConfiguration

Specifies the Linux operating system settings on the virtual machine.

For a list of supported Linux distributions, see Linux on Azure-Endorsed Distributions.

secrets

VaultSecretGroup[]

Specifies set of certificates that should be installed onto the virtual machines in the scale set. To install certificates on a virtual machine it is recommended to use the Azure Key Vault virtual machine extension for Linux or the Azure Key Vault virtual machine extension for Windows.

windowsConfiguration

WindowsConfiguration

Specifies Windows operating system settings on the virtual machine.

VirtualMachineScaleSetPublicIPAddressConfiguration

Describes a virtual machines scale set IP Configuration's PublicIPAddress configuration

Name Type Description
name

string

The publicIP address configuration name.

properties.deleteOption

DeleteOptions

Specify what happens to the public IP when the VM is deleted

properties.dnsSettings

VirtualMachineScaleSetPublicIPAddressConfigurationDnsSettings

The dns settings to be applied on the publicIP addresses .

properties.idleTimeoutInMinutes

integer

The idle timeout of the public IP address.

properties.ipTags

VirtualMachineScaleSetIpTag[]

The list of IP tags associated with the public IP address.

properties.publicIPAddressVersion

IPVersion

Available from Api-Version 2019-07-01 onwards, it represents whether the specific ipconfiguration is IPv4 or IPv6. Default is taken as IPv4. Possible values are: 'IPv4' and 'IPv6'.

properties.publicIPPrefix

SubResource

The PublicIPPrefix from which to allocate publicIP addresses.

sku

PublicIPAddressSku

Describes the public IP Sku

VirtualMachineScaleSetPublicIPAddressConfigurationDnsSettings

Describes a virtual machines scale sets network configuration's DNS settings.

Name Type Description
domainNameLabel

string

The Domain name label.The concatenation of the domain name label and vm index will be the domain name labels of the PublicIPAddress resources that will be created

VirtualMachineScaleSetScaleInRules

The rules to be followed when scaling-in a virtual machine scale set.

Possible values are:

Default When a virtual machine scale set is scaled in, the scale set will first be balanced across zones if it is a zonal scale set. Then, it will be balanced across Fault Domains as far as possible. Within each Fault Domain, the virtual machines chosen for removal will be the newest ones that are not protected from scale-in.

OldestVM When a virtual machine scale set is being scaled-in, the oldest virtual machines that are not protected from scale-in will be chosen for removal. For zonal virtual machine scale sets, the scale set will first be balanced across zones. Within each zone, the oldest virtual machines that are not protected will be chosen for removal.

NewestVM When a virtual machine scale set is being scaled-in, the newest virtual machines that are not protected from scale-in will be chosen for removal. For zonal virtual machine scale sets, the scale set will first be balanced across zones. Within each zone, the newest virtual machines that are not protected will be chosen for removal.

Value Description
Default
NewestVM
OldestVM

VirtualMachineScaleSetStorageProfile

Describes a virtual machine scale set storage profile.

Name Type Description
dataDisks

VirtualMachineScaleSetDataDisk[]

Specifies the parameters that are used to add data disks to the virtual machines in the scale set.

For more information about disks, see About disks and VHDs for Azure virtual machines.

imageReference

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.

osDisk

VirtualMachineScaleSetOSDisk

Specifies information about the operating system disk used by the virtual machines in the scale set.

For more information about disks, see About disks and VHDs for Azure virtual machines.

VirtualMachineScaleSetVMProfile

Describes a virtual machine scale set virtual machine profile.

Name Type Description
applicationProfile

ApplicationProfile

Specifies the gallery applications that should be made available to the VM/VMSS

billingProfile

BillingProfile

Specifies the billing related details of a Azure Spot VMSS.

Minimum api-version: 2019-03-01.

capacityReservation

CapacityReservationProfile

Specifies the capacity reservation related details of a scale set.

Minimum api-version: 2021-04-01.

diagnosticsProfile

DiagnosticsProfile

Specifies the boot diagnostic settings state.

Minimum api-version: 2015-06-15.

evictionPolicy

VirtualMachineEvictionPolicyTypes

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.

extensionProfile

VirtualMachineScaleSetExtensionProfile

Specifies a collection of settings for extensions installed on virtual machines in the scale set.

licenseType

string

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

networkProfile

VirtualMachineScaleSetNetworkProfile

Specifies properties of the network interfaces of the virtual machines in the scale set.

osProfile

VirtualMachineScaleSetOSProfile

Specifies the operating system settings for the virtual machines in the scale set.

priority

VirtualMachinePriorityTypes

Specifies the priority for the virtual machines in the scale set.

Minimum api-version: 2017-10-30-preview

scheduledEventsProfile

ScheduledEventsProfile

Specifies Scheduled Event related configurations.

securityProfile

SecurityProfile

Specifies the Security related profile settings for the virtual machines in the scale set.

storageProfile

VirtualMachineScaleSetStorageProfile

Specifies the storage settings for the virtual machine disks.

userData

string

UserData for the virtual machines in the scale set, which must be base-64 encoded. Customer should not pass any secrets in here.

Minimum api-version: 2021-03-01

VMGalleryApplication

Specifies the required information to reference a compute gallery application version

Name Type Description
configurationReference

string

Optional, Specifies the uri to an azure blob that will replace the default configuration for the package if provided

order

integer

Optional, Specifies the order in which the packages have to be installed

packageReferenceId

string

Specifies the GalleryApplicationVersion resource id on the form of /subscriptions/{SubscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{ResourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/galleries/{galleryName}/applications/{application}/versions/{version}

tags

string

Optional, Specifies a passthrough value for more generic context.

WindowsConfiguration

Specifies Windows operating system settings on the virtual machine.

Name Type Description
additionalUnattendContent

AdditionalUnattendContent[]

Specifies additional base-64 encoded XML formatted information that can be included in the Unattend.xml file, which is used by Windows Setup.

enableAutomaticUpdates

boolean

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.

patchSettings

PatchSettings

[Preview Feature] Specifies settings related to VM Guest Patching on Windows.

provisionVMAgent

boolean

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.

timeZone

string

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.

winRM

WinRMConfiguration

Specifies the Windows Remote Management listeners. This enables remote Windows PowerShell.

WindowsPatchAssessmentMode

Specifies the mode of VM Guest patch assessment for the IaaS virtual machine.

Possible values are:

ImageDefault - You control the timing of patch assessments on a virtual machine.

AutomaticByPlatform - The platform will trigger periodic patch assessments. The property provisionVMAgent must be true.

Value Description
AutomaticByPlatform
ImageDefault

WindowsVMGuestPatchMode

Specifies the mode of VM Guest Patching to IaaS virtual machine or virtual machines associated to virtual machine scale set with OrchestrationMode as Flexible.

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

Value Description
AutomaticByOS
AutomaticByPlatform
Manual

WinRMConfiguration

Describes Windows Remote Management configuration of the VM

Name Type Description
listeners

WinRMListener[]

The list of Windows Remote Management listeners

WinRMListener

Describes Protocol and thumbprint of Windows Remote Management listener

Name Type Description
certificateUrl

string

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":"",
"dataType":"pfx",
"password":""
}
To install certificates on a virtual machine it is recommended to use the Azure Key Vault virtual machine extension for Linux or the Azure Key Vault virtual machine extension for Windows.

protocol

ProtocolTypes

Specifies the protocol of WinRM listener.

Possible values are:
http

https