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Auto-shutdown did not work on Win 10 VM
Forum: Azure Virtual Machines
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Virtual machine RDP is not working on Mac OSX for guest account
Forum: Azure Virtual Machines
Increasing Azure VM Spot price
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MS Learn/ Sandbox Creation Error
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Multiple IP addresses for a VM to be able to use Multiple HTTPS endpoints
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Azure VMs no longer see themselves via public virtual IP
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MS Learn/ Sandbox Creation Error
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VM becomes unresponsive or disk becomes read-only
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Question about deploying multiple VMs with template
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Azure Feedback
Do you have an idea or suggestion based on your experience with Azure?
I tried to test the NVv4 with the free trial, but it doesn't work (quotas) and I cannot request quotas...
VM Image Search isn't very intuitive
Searching for a VM Image by name is not very intuitive.For example, I searched for "Windows Server 2012 Datacenter" and had to use "Load More" 7 times to get to the correct images.
Please provide a method to deploy Shared Image Gallery template to another subscription by using ARM resources. As I understand it, this is possible using CLI or PowerShell but not an ARM resource.https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/52987/using-a-shared-image-gallery-from-another-tenant-w.html
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Virtual machine console access
There is no VMConnect capability for console access to the VM as there is with Hyper-V.So in the situation where I lost connectivity, by misconfiguration, or system failure, is there only one very time and bandwith consuming way to fix it - download the VHDs on-premise, boot it in Hyper-V and VMConnect to repair VM, then upload all GBs back to the Azure...I requesting console access, also with ability to mount some image for repair and boot from it (as we do it in standard environment).
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Add the ability to rename a VM. The VM name is what appears in Azure, not the DNS name.Changing a VM's name should not affect the VM in any way. If you need a unique identifier for a VM that does not change, I suggest using a GUID rather than the VM's name in Azure.
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VM Created from custom image should be able to select storage account for VHD
When we try to create a virtual machine from a custom image the VHD's for the new virtual machine are created in the same storage account as the custom image. This is not ideal because most customers have different environments in different subscriptions so they are forced to copy the image into storage account in each subscriptions. It is not easy to copy the images between the storage accounts either.
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Live migrate the VMs during maintenance/hardware failures
Right now Azure VM customers experience very frequent restarts that impact the availability of services. As far as I know, these restarts are mostly caused by either host upgrades or hardware failures.Developing a HA setup is pretty straightforward for some scenarios (web servers), complex (database back-ends, notably MySQL) or extremely difficult (back-end applications used by our accounting department, for instance, which were designed to be run on one machine). Of course, HA setups are necessary for any major applications, but most of the setups we see have lots of single-instance roles (and for good reason most of the times).Currently, if you don't have an HA setup, machines are restarted about once per month or even more frequent (some as often as weekly). If this restart occurs during business hours, then this means downtime.Furthermore, for services like MySQL or SQL Server, this also means that the entire buffer pool is emptied and the performance of the application is degraded until the buffer pool fills up again.What we would love to have is something like Google Cloud's Live Migration - the VM would be moved to another host in case of hardware failures or host upgrades without restarts or downtime.
Allow to set the value of shutdown timeout (force shutdown)
According to the current behavior, if it is not completed within 10 minutes after the stop(deallocate) operation of Azure VM, I believe that the stop will be forced.However, it may take a lot of time due to the stop processing of process or OS task.I hope to be able to determine the forced out timeout time ourselves.
Azure VM limits should be visible on VM Overview page graphs
In a support case I found one of my VMs was being throttled because it was over disk write limit; the performance (other colors, not red) and limits (in red) should be on the graphs on the overview. This seriously impacts availability when VMs are being throttled and makes for an insidious and hard to understand issue. All performance limits should be visible! Please implement?
Virtual Machine Image API - Include OS disk size info
Virtual Machine Image API reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/compute/virtualmachineimages/getManaged Image API reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/compute/images/getThe returned objects from the virtual machine images API do not include information of the image size on the OS disk, whereas the API for managed images do include this information. This prevents the possibility of creating a solution to verify whether a potential deployment of a VM has appropriately sized disks or not based on the selected marketplace image, while this capability is present if the deployment is using a managed image. I don't see why there shouldn't have feature parity in this regard between the two API namespaces, given how closely related they seem.
Currently if you want to change the VM Size of Azure, VM is restarted. VM Resize shouldn't require downtime and it should be done in the backend. As CPU and RAM is still throttle when we use more resources then why can't we just remove the throttling limit and inform customer that VM is resized from A to D series when request is raised of resize?