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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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How to access sql server installed on Azure VM (VM Role ) outside of VM?

I am working on windows Azure VM Role, I am having sql server installed on Azure VM, now I want to connect to that sql server from outside, is it possible?
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How can I create an architecture where I have multiple resource groups sharing one single database server on Azure?

I want to create one single database server for all the resource groups I have created. Earlier, I have used one database server for each resource group but now I wish to have only one server for all the resource groups.
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availability set can be used along with scale set or scale set is enough

I am new to azure & learning to design application in Azure. The question might be too naive for someone but I am really confused. Do availability set are also required when we have scale set or scale set is enough for High availability & automatic…
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Unable to Start an Azure VM using Powershell script. We get Parameter set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters

We use powershell script to start and stop the VMs using the build job. Please see the screenshot of the build job below It is a simple powershell script to start an VM. The issue is when this job runs, we are getting an error and the build…
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How do I install Redis Cache on Azure virtual machine?

I want to install Redis Cache on Azure virtual machine. Is there any documentation available for this?
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What is the Azure equivalent of Amazon VM tags?

Is it possible to store name value pairs on Azure virtual machines? In Amazon EC2 I can use the tags to organize VM's. I found this article about tags : http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-preview-portal-using-tags/ but…
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How to deploy an msi from visual studio online to azure vm?

I have a build definition on visual studio online which creates an msi installation package using WiX. How can I automatically deploy the msi package from VSO build agent to Azure VM after the build completes successfully? Note: I prefer to use a…
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Assigning a reserved IP to a VM

I am trying to assign a reserved ip address to a newly created VM on Azure. I am following steps indicated here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-networks-reserved-public-ip/ Here is what I am doing and the error it…
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Windows Azure Backup suddently failing jobs - Error 100023

The last couple of days Azure Backup has been failing jobs with error 100023. The encryption passphrase stored for this computer is not correctly configured. The encryption passphrase can be configured from the Windows Azure Backup Agent MMC…
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Azure Cloud Services vs VMs for Existing Asp.Net website

I have seen variations of this question but couldn't find any that dealt with our particular scenario. We have an existing aps.net website that links to a SQL Server database. The database has clr user-defined types, hence it can only be hosted in…
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Azure VM - Temporary Storage drive - a thing of the past?

I am confused about the Azure VM setup. I am trying to setup a SQL Server and the guidelines suggest that if your DBs are larger than 10GB, that you should setup a seperate Data Disk in Azure Storage. But all the documentation explicitly says not…
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GCC compilation on Azure using a GUI

As a part of a college project we are implementing Compiler as a Service. For this we are planning to use a Virtual Machine on Azure preferably Ubuntu or CentOS. The problem is we have no leads. How do you get the GCC compiler onto the VM in the…
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Does the Azure VM Role still exist?

I've tried using csupload to get my sysprep'd .vhd file up to Azure Storage, but when I do I get "The subscription is not authorized for this feature." I do have Virtual Machines preview enabled on my account, but I never enabled the VM Role beta,…
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Azure Virtual Machine VMRole SLA

I understand that Virtual Machines in Azure are still in Early Preview but am I right in thinking that is likely that once out of early preview the SLA would be the same as Web and Worker roles? Also does anyone know when the Early Preview will…
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Can't recreate Virtual Machine after usage was exceeded (now paid for)

I was using the free evaluation of Windows Azure Virtual Machines to see if my company could switch from our local cloud service providers to a Windows Azure. Today I've exceeded the usage limit (forgot to stop/delete one spurious VM created for…
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