Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
441 questions
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[Urgent] VM disappeared after attaching to a scale set, Cannot find in list of VMs, Scale set is blank
I connected a VM to a scaleset, It has disappeared from my azure resource group, and I now have 2 new VMs that do not have my old VM's data. My old VM's public ip, vnet, nsg and network interface are there, but disk is not. Need urgent assistance in…
asked 2025-04-11T13:44:49.6933333+00:00
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Arnav Gupta
20
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commented 2025-04-21T04:49:04.1766667+00:00
Arko
1,655
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer
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VMSS scale set is duplicating search processes once scaled out
VMSS scale set is duplicating search processes that is being run by the application we deployed. For context, our application does social media platform searches and it was working fine when we first set up the VMSS. The main purpose for setting up the…
asked 2025-04-15T10:14:33.1433333+00:00
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Olufemi Olaoye
20
Reputation points
accepted 2025-04-17T21:53:38.57+00:00
Olufemi Olaoye
20
Reputation points
0 answers
How to Disable the Network Discovery Banner on Azure VMSS Windows Agents for UI Tests?
I am using VMSS on Azure to generate Windows agents. My test team runs automated tests on these agents using Maven/Selenium. The issue is that, by default, Windows opens the network discovery banner when a session starts. This causes the automated…
asked 2025-04-08T15:33:50.78+00:00
Matthieu
6
Reputation points
commented 2025-04-14T19:37:11.42+00:00
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Markapuram Sudheer Reddy
1,590
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer
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VMSS availability zones not available.
Hi I am new to azure (to cloud fully) and I am trying to create a VMSS but the region is showing that there is no availability zone. I thought all azure regions have availability zone am I wrong? Some guidance would be appreciated. thank you in…
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Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets how to Configure Backup
Hi all, how to configure backup for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets and restore the backup and create new Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
asked 2025-04-08T08:43:19.42+00:00
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Yuk Leong Chow
5
Reputation points
commented 2025-04-10T09:08:50.5233333+00:00
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anashetty
3,140
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer
Can AKS be configured to use Azure Spot Instances for scaling
We are using Terraform for complete build of AKS and would like a way to force Azure Spot Instances for AKS scaling. How is the best way to do this?
asked 2020-09-09T15:37:22.483+00:00
Kandice Hendricks
1
Reputation point
edited a comment 2025-04-02T19:46:55.36+00:00
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Sai Krishna Dasoju
20
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2 answers
One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
How to Retrieve Public IPs of Uniform VMSS Instances Using Azure Python SDK
I have an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) deployed using Uniform Orchestration Mode. Currently, I am able to fetch the public IP addresses of the instances only via Azure CLI using the following command: az vmss list-instance-public-ips…
asked 2025-03-27T06:11:20.9533333+00:00
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Udayakumar Iyappan
45
Reputation points
accepted 2025-04-01T04:38:21.7966667+00:00
Udayakumar Iyappan
45
Reputation points
0 answers
Linux VM - Disk increase is not preserve while burn image
VM Scale set instances are not coming up Manual scale in increase and decressed however there are no machine is coming under VMSSET
asked 2025-03-31T12:11:29.4966667+00:00
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Global Admin
0
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commented 2025-03-31T12:28:36.3133333+00:00
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Nikhil Duserla
6,630
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer
AVD showing sustained black screen on login
Azure Virtual Desktop is showing a black screen when users log into any of our 10 VMs. This screen appears instantly on logon, before Explorer loads; while the black screen is present, the user can move the mouse, but nothing else shows on-screen and the…
asked 2024-11-22T17:20:38.3933333+00:00
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Adrian Leo
0
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commented 2025-03-27T11:23:14.6333333+00:00
JimmyP
176
Reputation points
2 answers
One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
How to get powerstate of vmss...?
I am working with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and I need to retrieve the PowerState of instances within a scale set using PowerShell. I am currently using the following script: $resourceGroupName = "Mbdajshbcsc" $vmssName =…
asked 2025-03-21T12:41:14.85+00:00
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Abhishek P
20
Reputation points
accepted 2025-03-24T05:44:41.1266667+00:00
Abhishek P
20
Reputation points
1 answer
One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
NVidia drivers not installed by extension on Windows 2019 Scale Set NV6ads A10 v5
Related to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2180437/how-to-fix-no-gpu-issue-with-nc-series-on-azure-vm Ping @Anonymous On an Azure Virtual Machine Scale set running Windows Server 2019 on Standard_NV6ads_A10_v5, the Nvidia GPU Driver…
asked 2025-03-17T15:42:27.4266667+00:00
Henrik Aldermo
56
Reputation points
accepted 2025-03-19T09:11:23.44+00:00
Henrik Aldermo
56
Reputation points
2 answers
I need to upgrade one of my VM to 512 GB RAM. But this amount of RAM is unavailable in region: (Europe) Germany West Central
I need to upgrade one of my VM to 512 GB RAM. But this amount of RAM is unavailable in the region: (Europe) Germany West Central. Is it possible to order such an amount in this region?
asked 2025-03-07T18:36:11.2266667+00:00
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Sergiy Sydorov
0
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edited an answer 2025-03-10T11:11:10.63+00:00
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Suresh Estharakula
400
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer
Tags not getting applied to VMSS NICs by BuiltIn Policy
We have a BuiltIn Policy Add or replace a tag on resources that is supposed to add a moniker tag on all resources. It is not working for NICs created within Virtual Machine Scale Sets. We've noticed that initially the tag gets applied, but once the VM…
asked 2025-02-20T13:14:31.6266667+00:00
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Ravi Sheoran
0
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commented 2025-02-25T00:55:44.2933333+00:00
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Nagarjuna Reddy Yanna
260
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer
One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
Scheduled maintenance for Azure VMs
Dear support, we received a notification regarding scheduled maintenance for Azure Virtual Machines in set of regions. Currently our workloads live in the mentioned regions. We have several AKS clusters based on node pools built on Virtual Machine Scale…
asked 2025-02-14T11:02:51.9933333+00:00
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Aliaksandr Matskevich
20
Reputation points
accepted 2025-02-23T11:00:47.6366667+00:00
Aliaksandr Matskevich
20
Reputation points
2 answers
Best practices to upgrade a VM Scale Set between OS versions?
If I have a Scale Set with a set of stateful VMs using local OS disk for data, what would be the best practices to upgrade the OS from eg Ubuntu 20 to Ubuntu 22? Is it possible to do it without data loss? Auto upgrade only supports minor versions.
asked 2025-02-19T18:10:23.4266667+00:00
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Florian-6559
0
Reputation points
answered 2025-02-21T16:40:27.9466667+00:00
Suresh Estharakula
400
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer
Is it possible to edit cloud-init?
I cannot find any documentation on changing the cloud-init for VMSS. Is it possible to do this? And if so, is it possible to do this through Azure Portal or does this have to be done through Azure CLI? I need to have a script that runs each time a VM is…
asked 2025-02-14T10:26:59.1+00:00
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Ruan Nagel
0
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commented 2025-02-19T09:55:21.2133333+00:00
TP
117.5K
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Docker Containers on Azure VMSS
Good day. I would like to deploy docker containers on Azure VMSS. What needs to happen is that I have 3 docker containers. I want a VM to have all three docker containers. When traffic expands, there will be multiple VMs having the same docker…
asked 2025-02-13T11:48:24.66+00:00
Ruan Nagel
0
Reputation points
commented 2025-02-18T05:42:54.13+00:00
Nagarjuna Reddy Yanna
260
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer
I can't ssh into the VMSS node instance
Hi, I have set up a Bastion and have created ssh key pair. Have added the public key to the vmss instance via azure cli. I went to Azure Portal and was trying to access the VMSS instance using the private key I have and azureuser username but it…
asked 2025-02-13T04:51:38.1233333+00:00
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John Jones
0
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commented 2025-02-17T13:56:25.44+00:00
Nikhil Duserla
6,630
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer
Why is there a long delay between VMSS rolling update batches?
I have set up rolling updates in a VMSS. I initiate the update by setting a revised custom script using CLI. However, I notice that there is a very long delay between update batches. For example I observe healthy --> unhealthy --> healthy cycle…
asked 2021-12-08T15:03:05.21+00:00
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Mark Nickeson
1
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commented 2025-02-11T16:55:08.9+00:00
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Daling Tao
0
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Azure Virtual Machine scale set - Set to automatic OS image upgrades
Azure Virtual Machine scale set - Set to automatic OS image upgrades
asked 2025-02-06T08:56:48.76+00:00
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11508069
0
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commented 2025-02-11T12:43:50.36+00:00
Nikhil Duserla
6,630
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff