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Microsoft and community responses to older Azure technical questions
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MS Learn/ Sandbox Creation Error
Forum: Azure Virtual Machines
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Forum: Azure Virtual Machines
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Multiple IP addresses for a VM to be able to use Multiple HTTPS endpoints
Forum: Azure Virtual Machines
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Azure VMs no longer see themselves via public virtual IP
Forum: Azure Virtual Machines
StackOverflow
Community responses to development questions
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Azure feedback
Post ideas or suggestions based on your experience with Azure
IOPs limit on Azure Linux VM for 55 TB Oracle Database
We have one customer who have Oracle Database on RAC and size is around 55 TB, is it possible to migrate Oracle databse with 55 GB on Azure VM?What is max IOPs, CPUs and Memory supported? Do you see any limitation?Please reach out to me if you need any more details.Dinesh
Why is clock speed never a choice when selecting VM ?
Clock Speed is critical for specialized COTS applications that need migrated to Azure. However, there does not seem to be any option to select clock speed when selecting a VM.
Cancel button in VM Run Command
There should be the ability to 'cancel' a command executed in the RUN Command within Azure virtual machines.
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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.
Ubuntu 20.04LTS VMSS Automatic OS Upgrade Support
As of today, Ubuntu Server 20.04LTS is not supported by VMSS Automatic OS Upgrade feature (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/virtual-machine-scale-sets-automatic-upgrade#supported-os-images).This one has been released on April 23, 2020.Can you please kindly consider support it with VMSS Automatic OS Upgrade feature?Many thanks,
Azure Site Recovery - replication of VMs with UEFI and SecureBoot enabled
Have possibility to replicate on-premise (Hyper-V, VMware) Virtual Machines with UEFI and SecureBoot enabled via Azure Site Recovery.Nowadays replication of VMs with SecureBoot is not supported:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/vmware-physical-azure-support-matrix#storage
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?