Virtual Machines
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Real Checkpoints - not VM Images
Checkpoints, as they are in Hyper-V and NOT VM Images as announced at Teched and already in production.
VM Images are not really the solution:
- Amazon stores only the bits that have changed since the last snapshot, not again the whole machine. If a have a server with TBs of data and checkpoint the virtual machine, why should I have to pay for the storage twice?
- For a quick restore of the checkpoint, we would have to deploy the VM Image - no real solution in relation to how normal Hyper-V checkpoints work.
14 votesWe will look at this as a direct Azure compute option. In the meantime, this may help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh488361.aspx
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show size of VM images and which VM sizes they fit in
I went through a hot or miss effort to find a VM size that would not present the warning "The selected image is too large for the OS cache of the selected instance". It would be helpful to see the size of the images when selecting and a filter option when selecting VM sizes for the chosen image that fit into OS cache.
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Support MSDN images (SharePoint, SQL Server, BizTalk, Dynamics) in Azure Resource Manager templates
Support MSDN images (SharePoint, SQL Server, BizTalk, Dynamics) in Azure Resource Manager templates for dev/test scenarios.
For example the following 3 VM SharePoint template: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-sharepoint-farm-azure-preview/ should be able to deploy using SQL and SharePoint images from MSDN, thus not attracting production licensing for dev scenarios.
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Storage Optimized VMs should be having higher IOPS and MB/s throughput
Currently Storage Optimized VMs have very limited IOPS and MB/s throughput.
Our Oracle server has 6x1TB premium (6xP30) disks added to it. Which can go upto 1200MB/s throughput. Disk Block Sizes are configured at 1MB. Still we are restricted to the VM limit of 125MB/s. (PFA the current options)
Please consider higher VM level limits.
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3.5GB of RAM is insufficient for moderate workloads
Despite the best efforts from OSG, Windows Server still consumes a considerable amount of RAM even when stripped-down. Add to that the memory usage by an instance of a local SQL Server (when Azure SQL is inappropriate or too costly) it's easy to hit the 3.5GB memory limit and suffer disk thrashing.
I would like to see the memory allocations doubled at each instance tier level, though you can retain the CPU core count. If doubling is not economically feasible please extend the "Memory Intensive" range to offer a 2-core, 7GB option ($140/month?).
Question: why is memory doled out at…
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Add "VM JIT Requestor" role to Resource/RG level role list
Quite often, I want to grant users login access to an Azure VM without giving them contributor access to modify the metadata associated with the VM itself. However, while Reader access gives users access to the Azure portal, and Virtual Machine User Login access allows users to login to the VM once in the portal, neither the aforementioned roles nor any other predefined role provides the ability to request JIT access to the VM.
My workaround has been to create a cusotm role with the following allowed action: Microsoft.Security/locations/jitNetworkAccessPolicies/initiate/action
However, this seems like an action that should either be allowed…
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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#storage10 votes -
Add VM images for Windows ARM64
Currently, there aren't any ARM64 Windows VMs available. This e.g. blocks Continuous Integration scenarios for apps that want to support Windows on ARM (for e.g. the Microsoft Surface Pro X), like NodeJS: https://github.com/nodejs/build/pull/2408#issuecomment-671707155
While cross-compilation from a x64 host is possible, it's not possible to run automated tests on the ARM64 platform until VM images become available for that architecture.
Please add VM images for Windows ARM64 to Azure.
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Windows Virtual Desktop - User Assigned Personnel Desktop
In WVD enable the feature to assign a user to a personnel Session Host in PowerShell and the WVD Web UX
This will allow users to pre-assign users to their own VDI host in Azure that can be pre-staged with the apps that user will need, giving more flexibility to the WVD Service.
10 votesThanks for the valid suggestion. Your feedback is now open for the user community to upvote which allows us to effectively prioritize your request against our existing feature list and also gives us insight into the potential impact of implementing the suggested feature
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Windows VM ability to auto-execute customdata
When you pass custom data to a windows virtual machine it gets dropped into a file, but there is no way to have it automatically execute. Linux VMs have this functionality through the linux agent and cloud init. It would be convenient to pass a DSC script or custom startup script through custom data without having to use the CustomScript or DSC extension (because then you don't have to deal with copying files to a storage account or generating SAS tokens).
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Auto scale
Introduce Options to Auto Scale based on Memory parameter . Right now the options are limited to CPU and Queue Length . Queue Length would not make sense for a VM.
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Windows Images with different languages
It would be great to have pre-built Windows images in different languages for testing software on foreign Windows systems.
10 votesthanks!! Let’s vote this up and we will take a look at it. :)
Corey
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virtual machines column showing user that created
when you create a virtual machine and then revisit mgmt. portal view you have no idea who created that virtual machine, and on what date.
for team shared azure subscriptions this is really important as users don't want to have to bury this kind of information into virtual machine names.
we need it so we can track down who has an a8/a9 virtual machine that's been left running for the past week, or who has a stuck one that needs to be deleted.
we also need the last started/stopped date column view so we can determine if something basically hasn't…
10 votesOnce we have more AAD integration into the creation and management of VMs, this will be possible. Stay tuned as we dig in here.
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Getting scheduled "VM Maintenance" using Powershell
Hi Corey,
It would be nice if customers could read scheduled maintenance using either Powershell or just a basic REST call. This will bring flexibility and create integration with servicec management systems for notification.
9 votesYes, we need to add this to the API in addition to the portal experience we have.
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Create SQL Cluster VMs
I went to test SQL High Availability or Always On, it is too complicated to setup all. If there is a Wizard which will straight install SQL cluster up and running with multiple VMs sharing same storage and datacenter would be helpful.
If there are pre configured services like,
- SQL Cluster (number of nodes)
- SQL Replicated VMs, First Primary, Second Merge Replicator or whatever. We can choose number of replicators.
- Setup two VMs or more with Mirroring, Replication, Logshipping etc, all configured once and up and running.
- Auto log backup SQL to Azure Storage every 15 mins with daily full…
9 votesThis automated deployment of multi-VM solutions is something we would like to add to IaaS.
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Need much better upload speed
A deal breaker seems to be slow upload speed of large data (ca. <200 kB/s from Finland). Our application requires bulk transfer of large (100s GBs) data sets. Our Internet connections normally to most sites report 1000-1500 kB/s speeds).
Import/Export device service doesn't seem to be available in Europe and seems to be a laborius option.9 votesIs the request here for Import/Export in Europe or some other mechanism to upload faster?
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Build feature for offline patching of VMs and VHDs
It would be great to have the ability to patch virtual machines and VHDs offline, this would enhance security and tremendously ease management of VHDs in a shared image gallery!
8 votesThanks for the valid suggestion. Your feedback is now open for the user community to upvote which allows us to effectively prioritize your request against our existing feature list and also gives us insight into the potential impact of implementing the suggested feature
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faster Windows update download to Azure VMs
Today, I did WS2016 VM update (KB4022715 and more).
The problem is that the download speed was really slow. It does not show any speed in number, but I can say it’s way slower than doing on my office desktop. It consumes almost 2 hours on A2 VM.
In addition, I added language component of 16MB, and it consumes almost 1 hours?! It bring me back to 56K US robotics modem life.
It would be good to give faster windows update and component download speed to Azure VMs.
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Azure Website with GPU accelerated hardware (i.e. Tesla Series with CUDA)
I have website with CUDA rendering that uses Nvidia Tesla with TCC mode that can use CUDA device in Windows service. Please add such VM image for Azure?
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Yes, Need to know when a virtual machine reboots.
There needs to be an email sent when a VM is rebooted. You can do that now if the processor on the VM goes above a certain threshold.
8 votesWe do plan to add support to indicate when a VM has rebooted in the operation logs. We will investigate whether to also add support for emailing in this situation but i like the idea.
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