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VMRole is another PaaS offering from Microsoft on the Azure platform. Like the Web/Worker role it is a Stateless machine. However developers are given more control over customizing the OS by supplying a preconfigured VHD image that is used to run the VMRole from.

Windows Azure VM Role is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering from Microsoft. Like the WebRole and WorkerRole it is a stateless role, thus PaaS. The advantage of this type of offering is that one can avoid long-running installs of third party software, which usually runs in the Startup for a Web/Worker Role. Also the VM Role gives more freedom on customizing the OS that runs in the cloud (though currently only supported Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 SP 1 x64). The role is being spinned up from preconfigured VHD image. One shall not forget that the VM Role is a stateless. This means that any and all changes made during the live of a VM will be lost upon service healing (if hardware fails and needs to be re-instantiated on another machine) just like the Web/Worker roles. This is true for the file storage also.

It shall not be confused with Windows Azure Virtual Machines, that came as offering in June 2012 and is still in CTP as of today (Sept. 2012).

More information on VMRole and Virtual Machines can be found here.

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VSTS AzureFileCopy Permission denied while trying to connect to the target machine

Trying to setup a simple AzureVMFileCopy task from the VSTS Release. I have already done the following steps: Execucted Enable-PSRemoting Setup the WinRM listener with self signed certificate and opened the Port 5986 over HTTPS for WInRM…
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Can't get response from the server hosted in azure

I have a server which is running on the Azure's Virtual Machine. I'm trying to test it via Postman. But when I send a simple Http Get request I get "Could not get any response". I am using following url: http://104.43.255.227/admin I can't…
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Secure Solr search engine on Azure VM

I have installed a Solr instance on Azure VM and I have also configured Solr on port:8983 so that I can access it everywhere for my MVC website. e.g: _mysolr.azurewebsites.net:8983_ My MVC website are setup on Azure. I want to restrict Solr so that…
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Create azure VM on my local machine

Is it possible to create one or several azure VMs on my local machine? I want to create a web app and load test it locally, without the need of putting it in the cloud. I'm thinking at the following scenario: I have a local VM running a IIS server…
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Copy folder from remote machine (Azure) to remote machine

I have two machines say Machine-A: An azure vm role on cloud. Machine-B: A machine on my network domain. I can remote login to both MachineA and MachineB (using RDP) and copy say a folder 'temp' from location \MachineA.cloudapp.net\C$\temp to…
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Windows Azure VM role upload

This question is related to Azure VM Role. As I read in some blogs, to host a VM Role we need to create a Virtual Machine image (VHD) with Windows Server 2008 r2 installed in it. 1.) So what will be the size of the VHD file (roughly)? 2.) I guess…
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windows azure VM load balancing

Trying to migrate to windows Azure. We have a whole bunch of customizations and sharding code built in and so we thought it would be a better idea to go with the VM roles - My assumption is that we could manage it as a regular server and deploy our…
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Cloud Service Startup Tasks: Add domain user

I would like to add domain\user to Cloud Service WebRole / VM during startup tasks. I have ExpressRoute enable for my subscription and I have configured ILB endpoint to my webrole. I am running following startup task to make VM to join domain and…
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Custom probes for Windows Azure Load-balancer

We are trying to create custom probes for LoadBalanced sets in Windows Azure. We created a Windows Communication Foundation service probe, which is listening to port 1001 (added an inbound rule for this port in Firewall - TCP, allow connection for…
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How do I add a website to a virtual network in Windows Azure?

Scenario: I have a website on Windows Azure. That website needs to connect to a (new) Azure VM. I have done the following: Created new Virtual Network on Azure Added the VM to the Virtual Network, and it does get an IP in the virtual network. I…
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How to set some unique identifier to each Windows Azure Virtual Machine operating system

I have some Virtual machine running with same configuration. On those VMs I have installed my application. I want to set some custom unique identifier in my VM , so that I know that if particular (from my application) request is coming from which…
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Configure VM Role on Azure Emulator

How can we configure VM Role on Azure Emulator? Is this possible or do i need to do my testing on Windows Azure Management Portal. Thanks, Mrinal Jaiswal
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How to change different Virtual Network/Subnet for exiting Virtual Machine?

I have exiting virtual machine I need to change virtual network/subnet for this Virtual machine. I didn't found any option to change please help me out. Thanks..!
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If azure VM is idle for 30 minutes I need to shut it down

If an azure VM is idle for 30 minutes I need to shut it down. By idle I mean CPU percent is less than 30%. How can I achieve this? I have tried with run books default functions but it has shutdown and start but not with idle time.
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Azure Vmrole WCF services unable to connect

We've been experimenting with an online application hosted in a virtual machine (vmrole) on windows azure. We are able to connect to the web portal of the application (http) but we are not able to connect to the wcf services using port 5001 We tried…
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