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Azure Spot Virtual Machines: Try to restore functionality now generally available
You can now opt-in and use this feature while deploying Spot VMs using Virtual Machine Scale Sets. This new feature will automatically try to restore an evicted Spot VM to maintain the desired target compute capacity (e.g., number of VMs) in a scale set.
September 2021
Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now support Windows Server 2022
Now with Windows Server 2022 generally available, you can start using this agent to monitor your resources running the latest Windows operating systems
Public preview: Automatic scaling with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode
This release provides improved quality and simplified Azure customer experience, giving you the opportunity to combine the functionality of Availability Sets and Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
August 2021
Automatic Azure VM extension upgrade capabilities now generally available
Automatic extension upgrade provides safe and automatic upgrades for extensions on Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets, keeping your environments more secure and up to date.
July 2021
General availability: Better integration between Azure Monitor and Grafana
Customers using Grafana for visualizing Azure Monitor metrics can now enable additional data sources and have easier authentication using managed identity.
June 2021
General availability: Maintenance control for Virtual Machine Scale Sets OS image upgrades
Take control of OS image upgrades on your virtual machine scale sets by using the new maintenance control feature. Now you can update at the time chosen by you with all the safety checks in place.
May 2021
General availability: Run Enterprise Java with Red Hat JBoss EAP for Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Marketplace offers to run JBoss EAP on Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets are now available. Customers can quickly move existing Java EE/Jakarta EE workloads to the cloud with limited code changes.
April 2021
General availability: Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux with RI and VMSS Support
You can now add Azure Hybrid Benefit to their Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) VMSS instances as well as RI’s, helping to significantly reduce the costs of running your workloads in the cloud.
Public preview: Backup and restore of Azure VM scale sets with flexible orchestration is now supported
Azure virtual machine scale sets provide the management capabilities for applications that run across many VMs, automatic scaling of resources and load balancing of traffic. Scale set orchestration modes allow you to have greater control over how virtual machine instances are managed by the scale set.
March 2021
HBv3-Series VMs now generally available in East US, South Central US, and West Europe
HBv3-series VMs for HPC now available in the East US, South Central US, and West Europe regions
New orchestration mode for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now in public preview
Increase the availability at scale of business-critical applications with new Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets features. Simplify workload deployment, management, and scalability with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode, now in public preview.
Improve Azure Spot Virtual Machines runtime and simulate evictions with new features in public preview
New Azure Spot Virtual Machines capabilities – ‘try & restore’ and REST APIs to simulate VM evictions - are now in public preview.
February 2021
Automatic Azure VM extension upgrade capabilities now in public preview
Automatic extension upgrade provides safe and automatic upgrades for extensions on Azure virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets, keeping your environments more secure and up to date.
Standard Load Balancer and IP addresses metadata now available through Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)
Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) is a mature REST API that offers metadata information regarding networking, storage, SKU etc. We are now adding Load Balancer-related information to the list of metadata IMDS covers.
December 2020
Automatic VM placement and Azure virtual machine scale sets available on Dedicated Host
Azure can now select the dedicated host to which your VM is deployed. Additionally, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets can be deployed in conjunction with Dedicated Hosts.
New Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules capabilities released in public preview
The new Azure Monitor Agent and the Data Collection Rules feature of Azure Monitor are announcing the release of several key features including support for on-premises servers (with Arc installed) and virtual machines scale sets, as well as sample ARM templates for programmatic installation and management, in addition to portal UI.
November 2020
SMB Multichannel preview is now available on Azure Files premium tier
Lower your deployment cost and increase your Server Message Block (SMB) 3.x client’s performance with Azure Files SMB Multichannel.
October 2020
Public Preview: JBoss EAP on Azure App Service
A managed JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) experience is now available in Public Preview on Azure App Service. Deploy your Web Application Archive (WAR) and Enterprise Application Archive (EAR) apps to a PaaS for Java EE apps.
September 2020
New maintenance control features
Increase control over maintenance operations and ensure higher availability for your business-critical applications with two new features now in preview. You can now schedule host maintenance operations in addition to the already-available manual updates. We are also adding the ability for you to control when guest OS image updates on virtual machine scale sets are rolled out.
New Azure Dedicated Hosts capabilities
Azure can now select the dedicated host to which your VM is deployed. Additionally, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets can be deployed in conjunction with Dedicated Hosts.
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