Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
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Queries on Patches applying to scale sets and rapid 7 installation on scale set instances
Can we apply to patches to virtual machine scaleset , if so what is the process using update manger? We are receiving alert mentioning rapid7 software is there in the scale set instance even though it is not there, how we can troubleshoot this?
asked 2024-05-09T17:19:52.5966667+00:00
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Varma
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answered 2024-05-09T21:01:51.1333333+00:00
deherman-MSFT
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Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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How can I decrease my scale out times when using Virtual Machine Scale Sets?
What are Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets and how can they decrease my scale out times?
asked 2024-05-09T20:16:45.8533333+00:00
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kobulloc msft
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accepted 2024-05-09T20:17:46.5833333+00:00
kobulloc msft
20
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Purpose of protection policy in scale set and its usage during troubleshooting
I navigated instances of scaleset--> there if we select instance, there is option "Protection policy" 1. what is the exact purpose of "protection policy" ? 2. how we can use this "protection policy" in troubleshooting…
asked 2024-05-09T17:15:51.8+00:00
Varma
1,170
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answered 2024-05-09T17:45:27.18+00:00
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kobulloc-MSFT
23,571
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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How to Configure a Low Disk Space Alert on virtual machine scale set instance in Azure?
Low Disk space alert can be created easily in Virtual machines > Monitoring > Alerts > Create an alert rule. However, could not find such option for VMSS instances. Is there a way to create an alert if an OS Disk (for example C drive) gets…
asked 2024-05-03T05:51:53.8133333+00:00
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Farzana Mustafa
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commented 2024-05-07T12:38:08.65+00:00
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AnuragSingh-MSFT
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Azure VMSS Creation
We presently have a classic Azure service CMG set up for our SCCM infrastructure. We are looking to migrate to a VM scale set as the classic service will no longer be supported by Microsoft . The inbuilt CMG creation wizard within SCCM does not allow…
asked 2024-04-23T17:28:58.29+00:00
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R Peaks
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commented 2024-05-02T11:50:06.05+00:00
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Sina Salam
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How can Blue-Green deployment involving VM & VMSS in Primary site work with ASR on DR site?
Reposting my question from 6/April/2024 with some additional context, since I couldn't view the answer on QnA community for some strange reason and I had to flag it to the moderators. At a high level, my solution includes Primary site with…
asked 2024-04-08T15:30:04.4433333+00:00
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anshuman-nath
20
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accepted 2024-05-02T10:01:24.9666667+00:00
anshuman-nath
20
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Getting info about available memory from scaleset
When I am using scaleset from azure pipelines. I see following error. Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents because there is not enough available memory or disk space. scale set runs that pipeline I know it is 16 GB RAM for the scale…
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Azure VM Scale Set unhealthy machines with ubuntu 22.04. stuck at "login" step
Hello everybody, we are using Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets as our DevOps Agents. Yesterday in the evening our Scale Sets agents stopped working and I can not find a solution for it. The problem seems to be that the Virtual Machine or the daemon…
asked 2024-04-18T08:54:19.57+00:00
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Bothe, Lukas
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commented 2024-04-18T16:09:11.64+00:00
kobulloc-MSFT
23,571
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Can't enable SystemAssigned identity to VMSS with Bicep
I'm trying to create a VMSS with Bicep with SystemAssigned identity enabled, here is my Bicep code: resource Build_VMSS 'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets@2023-09-01' = { name: 'BUILD-VMSS-test' location: location identity: { type:…
asked 2024-04-16T13:21:33.44+00:00
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Vasiliy Grinko
20
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edited a comment 2024-04-17T21:27:02.5833333+00:00
Vasiliy Grinko
20
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Not able to upgrade VMSS with Flexible -- Orchestration mode but Loadbalancer needs upgrade
Hi Team, We have created VMSS with flexible Orchestration mode which is not supporting upgrade policy. But we need to create this VMSS with load balancer, and load balancer when backend pool added its gives the error like """'…
asked 2023-06-20T16:46:24.57+00:00
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Bansari Oza [ MTN Group - South Africa ]
5
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commented 2024-04-11T15:39:55.2833333+00:00
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Darwin de Jesús Molina Cabezas (INYCOM)
0
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Zero downtime upgrade for Azure VMSS
We want to achieve zero downtime upgrade for Azure VMSS. Currently, our VMSS runs a lightweight webserver which handles long running connections. The upgrade policy for VMSS is set to Rolling Upgrade. During a rolling upgrade, the VMs are updated…
asked 2023-03-15T10:31:20.9466667+00:00
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Siddharth Singha Roy
20
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
answered 2024-04-10T07:00:25.49+00:00
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Martin Søstrand Helgesen
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Win 11 support running interactive UI in scale set
Hi, Can you confirm if Windows 11 images are capable of running interactive UI agents in scale set? Thanks
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Update Shared Image gallery definition: Need to add SecurityType with TrustedLaunch value
I am using Azure compute galleries for multiple purpose and for that I have multiple Image definition which I have created using the below command az sig image-definition create --gallery-image-definition trusted-launch-test --gallery-name…
asked 2024-03-28T16:54:15.68+00:00
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Maulin Shah (Crest Data Systems Private Lim)
40
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
accepted 2024-04-02T07:19:35.1566667+00:00
Maulin Shah (Crest Data Systems Private Lim)
40
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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Azure Vmss CustomData Extesnions
we have vmss instance up and running which required custom data to be used and we need to upgrade through CLI since we haven't access to Azure portal to do same, looking for a support on CLI commands to perform this activity
asked 2024-03-29T15:54:27.7966667+00:00
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Stubbs Tristan
20
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commented 2024-04-01T04:05:14.37+00:00
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v-vvellanki-MSFT
3,980
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers
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Load balancing with scale sets
Hi everyone, I am starting to look into scalesets (new to this technology) and the uses that it has. Is it possible to install Apache2 on all the Ubuntu instances and add a custom page? Youtube links or online guides would be appreciated :) Thanks Tom
asked 2024-03-27T23:50:05.7266667+00:00
Tom Wrigglesworth
91
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commented 2024-03-28T08:31:02.4333333+00:00
Tom Wrigglesworth
91
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1 answer
Not able to use serial console
I have scale set and there are 2 instance in that. I want to log in in to that instance and verify the folders and softwares. I am seeing following message: I am trying to log in using serial console, here 2 questions I am not able to log in to…
asked 2024-03-26T13:15:25.1+00:00
Varma
1,170
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answered 2024-03-27T17:48:28.9533333+00:00
hossein jalilian
3,175
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1 answer
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Making image to be used by scaleset
I have image in compute gallery and I want to update that image to scaleset , what is the way to do it, I want that image to be used by scale set, Please suggest how we can achive that
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Updating the image to the scaleset and that image is in different subscription
can we update the scaleset image and that image is available in different subscription If yes, could you please share me the command.
asked 2024-03-20T06:54:33.1866667+00:00
Varma
1,170
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answered 2024-03-20T22:09:36.1766667+00:00
hossein jalilian
3,175
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Extension query on scaleset
How following MicroSoft.Azure.DevOps.Pipeline extension made available in the virtual machine scaleset? what is the process to make it available over there?
asked 2024-03-19T06:17:51.14+00:00
Varma
1,170
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commented 2024-03-20T07:44:06.5833333+00:00
Jackson Martins
9,646
Reputation points MVP
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Azure VMSS mount Nvme disk issue
Hi, we met VMSS Nvme disk mount issue in our vmss cluster, and this issue occurs frequently. We created a path which named "/ssd", mounted it into "/dev/nvme0n1" path and run docker container under this path. But we observed mount…
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