Azure Virtual Machines
An Azure service that is used to provision Windows and Linux virtual machines.
7,158 questions
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Unable to RDP to VMs
What are the common cause in unable to remote desktop to Azure VMs? I already have RDP ports enable as well successfully did a network test.
asked 2019-12-06T08:48:12.297+00:00
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CromwellM
1
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answered 2019-12-18T17:50:00.52+00:00
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Branden_Naidoo
1
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3 answers
Azure VM to VM communication
Hello All, Looking form some information and how-to I would like to have my VMs on two different V-Nets be able to communicate with each other.... I know I can do peering between the V-Nets and that allows communication fine, and I have set that…
asked 2019-11-27T13:39:38.817+00:00
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Dave
1
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answered 2019-12-18T04:19:23.81+00:00
Emerson Caro
86
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3 answers
Configure basic load balancer for existing VMs
I'm trying to configure a basic load balancer for two of our VMs. In order to do this is looks like I need an availability set. I didn't create on when I created the VMs and it doesn't look like I can assign one to the VMs now. Do I need to create two…
asked 2019-12-06T02:31:15.94+00:00
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jbassking
106
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answered 2019-12-18T03:45:16.4+00:00
Emerson Caro
86
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2 answers
Restore option unavailable in SSMS
Hello, The 'Restore Database' option is not available when looking to upload a .bak file to SSMS in Azure's Virtual Machine for MS SQL Server. Is there a work around to import or upload a .bak file to SSMS so we are able to link our…
asked 2019-12-05T21:16:11.097+00:00
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Aaron Erickson
1
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answered 2019-12-17T19:19:15.81+00:00
Vaibhav Chaudhari
38,606
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checking activation status
Hi there. I've been running with a free trial of Azure got an email earlier in the week to 'upgrade now' which I want to do. This takes me through to login and says 'More information required' and then to 'Additional Security Information'. I've…
asked 2019-12-06T12:47:33.507+00:00
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JamesGoz
1
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answered 2019-12-17T09:02:17.927+00:00
Lukas Beran
176
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2 answers
Can't connect my Windows Server 2016 VM using RDP after the Safe Mode
Hello ! Just rebooted my VM in the Safe Mode + Network support, after suspected it under the virus (Windows Defender & Local System was using 2 cores at 100% each), and now can't connect it via RDP. Used this…
asked 2019-12-14T21:12:24.323+00:00
Oleg Skripnyak (oskripny)
1
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answered 2019-12-17T08:22:42.1+00:00
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Oleg Skripnyak
1
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1 answer
Are the E8-2s V3 (2 vCPU's, 64gb ram) VM's Hyper Threaded?
Grettings, Im not really sure if the E8-2s V3 (2 vCPU's, 64gb ram) VM's support Hyper Threading? Thanks a lot in advance!
asked 2019-12-13T16:02:07.07+00:00
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Rafael Borrero
1
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commented 2019-12-15T23:24:59.98+00:00
Rafael Borrero
1
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1 answer
VM - After Restarting, Cannot Change Password or Connect with SSH
Hey everyone, I recently filled up the OS disk on my VM and wanted to expand the disk. After expanding the disk and connecting with SSH I reallocated the partitions. Then I restarted my VM and now I can no longer connect to the VM using SSH. When I try…
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restrict access to azure portal on non-business hours/days(saturday&sunday)
Hi Team, How to restrict the users to access the azure portal on non-business hours/weekends(saturday&sunday) Thanks in advance Venu
asked 2019-12-13T09:43:35.417+00:00
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Venu Sunkara
6
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answered 2019-12-15T12:54:51.61+00:00
Sam Cogan
10,157
Reputation points MVP
0 answers
VMSS instance failes to connect to DB on first startup
Hello, I've got an image for scale set, it's Win Server with defined system service, which starts Spring Boot application. This application uses Hibernate to connect to SQL Server DB (it's in the same resource group). Issue i got - when VMSS …
asked 2019-12-09T11:48:57.567+00:00
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Жаренков Данила
1
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commented 2019-12-13T10:40:41.67+00:00
jakaruna-MSFT
596
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Requirements for Virtual Machine to run properly
I am using VM with 64 GB of RAM but it is not properly working on my system, system is getting hanged every time when I open VM. Is this because of Internet Speed ( although internet speed is good ) or VM also depends upon system configuration ?
asked 2019-12-12T10:00:32.457+00:00
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Gourav Bais
1
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answered 2019-12-12T12:41:37.51+00:00
jakaruna-MSFT
596
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
What happens to an interrupted job?
I have a background in economics and auctions and understand the spot VM conceptually on that level, but I don't understand the practical implementation of it. In particular: If I am running an job on a spot VM and it is interrupted because my…
asked 2019-12-11T23:12:06.677+00:00
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Doug Bergman
1
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answered 2019-12-12T09:47:08.453+00:00
jakaruna-MSFT
596
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
not getting option to enter VM Credentials in Azure Migrate appliance configuration page
not getting option to enter VM Credentials in Azure Migrate appliance configuration page. Below option is grayed out. Discover applications and dependencies on VMs Provide VM credentials for discovery of applications and for dependency analysis on the…
asked 2019-12-10T15:45:55+00:00
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Krishna Kishore Baditala
1
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commented 2019-12-11T21:35:39.443+00:00
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KarishmaTiwari-MSFT
18,527
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Does Azure VM's for SUSE Linux cost based on per core licencing model ?
I have figured out that SUSE Linux SAP priority is calculated based on per-core licencing. But why is that for 8 cores and 32 cores price is the same. Look at my calculations bellow :
asked 2019-12-09T10:28:34.267+00:00
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Dileepa
6
Reputation points MVP
answered 2019-12-10T11:59:45.053+00:00
jakaruna-MSFT
596
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Which App can I use to install packages on instances in vmss of linux on daily basis?
I want to execute a script which has code to install Anti virus like ClamAV on the instances present in the virtual machine scale set. That script should be executed on the newly auto scaled instances too using logic of Azure function. For this I need an…
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Azure permissions needed to get storage context
I have a runbook which tries to get a Storage Context with New-AzStorageContext but the variable keeps coming back empty. I've given the automation account's run as account storage blob data Owner, Storage Account Contributor, and Classic Storage Account…
asked 2019-12-09T11:46:42.387+00:00
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MCMR
1
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answered 2019-12-09T11:51:33.997+00:00
Vaibhav Chaudhari
38,606
Reputation points
0 answers
Setting custom script extension in virtual machine scale set is changing the status of instances to NotReady.
I have set custom script extension using az command az vmss extension set --publisher Microsoft.Azure.Extensions --version 2.0 --name CustomScript --resource-group resource_group_name --vmss-name vmss_name --settings…
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VM licensing query
We provisioned a SQL Server VM in Azure with a SQL Standard Edition license, and have been getting billed for the SQL license. It turns out we don’t need SQL on this VM, but we do not want to rebuild the VM, so we can’t exactly delete and re-deploy…
asked 2019-12-06T19:35:17.08+00:00
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Bloke 1
1
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answered 2019-12-08T07:30:47.98+00:00
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Arwind Yadav
11
Reputation points
1 answer
Azure policy to audit VM image on management group level
The problem is image id is defined with subiscription id so I need to re write all image IDs with different subscription IDs, when ever a new subscription is added we need to edit the policy to include that as well. Below is the example, { …
asked 2019-11-27T18:05:31.56+00:00
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Akshay kg
1
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commented 2019-12-06T17:52:15.037+00:00
KarishmaTiwari-MSFT
18,527
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2 answers
To create a VM host multi VMs
Hello - I'm a newbie to Azure, I'm researching on the web whether allow to create a VM that hosts multi VM in it, but I couldn't find any discussions about it. Does Azure allow to have multi VMs run in one VM? Thank you in advance, Nick
asked 2019-12-05T23:04:12.55+00:00
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Kha Nick
6
Reputation points
commented 2019-12-06T17:48:39.97+00:00
KarishmaTiwari-MSFT
18,527
Reputation points Microsoft Employee