List available skus for VMs

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  • Doug Erickson [MSFT]
  • sankethka

Lists the skus that are available for virtual machines in a virtual machine scale set.

Request

For information about getting started with Azure REST operations including request authentication, see Azure REST API Reference.

Method Request URI
GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroup}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/VirtualMachineScaleSets/{vmScaleSet}/skus?api-version={apiVersion}
Parameter Description
subscriptionId The identifier of your subscription.
resourceGroup The resource group that contains the scale set.
vmScaleSet The name of the scale set.
apiVersion The version of the API to use. The current version is 2016-04-30-preview.

Response

Status code: 200 (OK). 

{    
  "value": [ {    
    "resourceType": "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets"    
    "sku": {    
      "name": "Standard_A1",    
      "tier": "Standard"    
    },    
    "capacity": {    
      "minimum": 1,    
      "maximum": 100,    
      "default": 1,    
      "scaleType": "Automatic"    
    }    
  } ]    
}
Element name Description
resourceType Specifies the type of resource.
sku Specifies the configuration settings of virtual machines in the scale set.
capacity Specifies the number of virtual machines that can be in a scale set.

sku

Element name Description
name Specifies the size of virtual machines in the scale set.
tier Specifies the tier of virtual machines in scale set.

Possible Values:

Standard

Basic

capacity

Element name Description
minimum Specifies minimum number of virtual machines in the scale set.
maximum Specifies the maximum number of virtual machines that can be in the scale set based on the selected tier.
default Specifies the default number of virtual machines in the scale set.
scaleType Specifies the allowed scaling action for the scale set. The only supported value is Automatic.