Virtual machine scale sets are an Azure Compute resource you can use to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs. With all VMs configured the same, VM scale sets are designed to support true autoscale – no pre-provisioning of VMs are required – and as such make it easier to build large-scale services targeting big compute, big data, and containerized workloads.
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Azure - VM scale set autoscale on demand
Is it possible to scale out an Azure VMSS "on demand"?
What I mean is, normally a resource manager application knows if extra VM instances will be needed in advance, and can use the Autoscale REST API to create a schedule for a predefined time, when…
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Custom Data on Azure Virtual Machine ScaleSet
Need custom data in azure virtual machine scaleset (Windows) to install IIS server and replace the default iis page echoing hostname of the server. Appreciate any guidance in this regard,
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Azure Advisor - Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Out of the box, Azure Advisor includes Cost recommendations for the resource type of Virtual Machines, based on resource utilization.
If I look at them under our subscription they have the following information:
Is there any way to get similar…
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Depolyment on Virtual machine Scale sets using Azure Pipelines
I am facing issue while deploying updated code on vmscaleset using Azure DevOps Pipeline. Tried using updating Image each time when code updates in repo, but its taking much time. Kindly suggest ways to accomplish this
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How to update Azure Scale Set Computer Name Prefix after creation?
There is a way to set the Computer Name Prefix at the creation time of a Scale Set. How one would be able to update the Computer Name Prefix after the creation?
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Single VNet and subnet PER VM in scale set?
I cannot seem to find documentation or a way to figure this out and primarily want to use ARM templates to do this:
I am experiencing HTTP timeouts in a scale set and we have many (hundreds) of VM's in the scale set.
They are using 1 VNet and subnet…
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Retrieve Application Healthy status from VMs in a Scale Set
I know I can use Get-ASzVmssVM to get a list of instances in a VMSS. But how can I retrieve the application healthy status? The Azure UI does this when you look at Instances for the scale set. Is there any mechanism for me to do the…
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Is it possible to use % Memory utilization for Azure scale set autoscale setting?
I have an Azure VM Scaleset on Windows VMs, and I am trying to setup an autoscale rule that would increase the number of instances if the Memory utilization gets over a certain threshold. There's an option for Percentage CPU, but not RAM. Tried…
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Is there any assessment which could be performed before making a decision to consider VMSS for an application?
I have referred the following document:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/virtual-machine-scale-sets-design-overview
It just lists VM and VMSS features. What I am looking for is any guidance from the application…
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Azure Application Gateway - check health on subset of backend nodes
I have a service fabric cluster that hosts some number of identical applications. The application has two main components - a stateless service that hosts web api (it listens on unique port number) and an actor service.
In front of it there is an…
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Azure scaleset storage | update app code | Add an existing VM to a new scale-set
I have three questions that I couldn't get a clear answer for in the documentation I visited.
1- In case I deployed a VM scale-set with auto-scaling and I had a VM that was scaled-in (according to the set policy) then it remained active for a while…
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How can I detect SNAT port exhaustion on Azure using Datadog metrics?
Here's a list of DataDog metrics of Azure Load Balancer that are available to use. It seems like
azure.network_loadbalancers.allocated_snat_ports (count) - Total number of SNAT ports allocated within time…
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Copy files to Azure VMSS using GitHub Actions
Is there any way I can copy the set of files from my GitHub Repo/Azure Blob Storage to Azure VMSS (Windows Server) using GitHub actions and then restart all the instances? should I use a custom extension script to copy the files? are there any other…
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AKS nodepool scaleset fault domains count is always 1
When you create just the vm scaleset in azure as a separate resource, you get 5 fault domains (5 - is a default fault domains count in a regular scaleset according to the microsoft documentation):
But when the scaleset is a part of AKS deployment…
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Azure devops Agent Pools vs Parallel jobs
I am using my own Azure VM scale set as the agent pool in Azure devops. The VM scale set consists of 3 nodes. However whenever running multiple jobs at the same time, only one agent is scheduling the jobs and the others are idle.
It seems that I…
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