Virtual Machines
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Fix link on error message for server not stopped on capture VM
In a VM on the Azure portal, click Capture on a non-stopped vm. Click the down arrow to expand the message. Click learn more link. Link heads to a generic microsoft.com page rather than an article.
1 voteWe are going to look at fixing this one! Thanks for reporting.
Corey
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Estimated monthly Fees Visible on VMs from gallery
When creating a VM from Gallery it mentions that they are special configurations and additional fees apply, but it does nto tell you which fees. Make it easier to see what fees may actually apply.
1 voteWe’ll looking at doing this as part of the Gallery
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I can't launch A8 Type in San Antonio Region.
I had try four times in different time.
But I still can't launch A8 type VM.
Could you check out that?Thanks
1 voteThanks for the feedback. Right now, San Antonio does not support the A8/A9 sizes. We are constantly looking to increase our size options in the regions but right now, this isn’t available there.
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***** down on bots and exploits
My SSH server has been attacked twice in the past 24 hours by two different Azure hosts. Please do more than promise people that you'll look into people using your services for abusing other servers.
1 voteThanks for the feedback. We will investigate what other options we have here.
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Enable to manage your own endpoint list.
Allow to manage (add/edit/change endpoints) to the default presented endpoint list. Example I from time to time need to enable special endpoints times in a repetitive manner. this will allow save my settings in the cloud and avoid me to keep a record of the settings I use.
A option to reset to default will be also handy.
1 voteplanned ·
AdminAzure IaaS Engineering Team
(Azure IaaS Engineering Team, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure)
responded
We plan to enable this type of repeatable updates in a future release.
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Ability to move resources
Some examples:
1) You set up something (e.g. SQL, VM, storage, CDN, etc.) in a region because a feature wasn't available in another region. Then it becomes available, and you are stuck in the old region because moving things requires lots of manual work, copies, DNS changes, etc., if at all possible. It would be great to allow to simply "change region", and Azure does everything needed behind the scenes. Of course you pay for the bandwidth, but the operation could be transparent.
2) You set up a VM, and you forget to put it in an affinity group. Shouldn't…
2 votesThanks for the idea! We will consider this as we make improvements in the API.
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Ensure Virtual Machine GenerationID does not change over a Shut Down and Start pair of operations
Microsoft invented the VM GenerationID as a means of determining when an important VM transition event has occured. As per Microsoft's paper on the subject, the GenerationID of a guest should not change on restart or migrate operations. This works fine directly on Hyper-V, but an Azure managed VM will see a GenerationID change when the VM is Shut Down then Started (as two separate operations, a single 'Restart' operation does not change the GenerationID). Incidentally, the virtual SMBIOS UUID also changes during this operation, which is wrong too (SMBIOS UUID should change only on a clone operation).
I imagine…22 votesYes, this is good feedback. We are looking at the best way to resolve this.
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Microsoft Antimalware for Azure Needs a GUI for Monitoring and Management
I have been researching the Microsoft Antimalware for Azure which is currently in preview. I think that the idea behind this product is fantastic. There was a real gap in the market for customers who want to run VMs on Microsoft Azure. So I am glad to see that Microsoft is offering a service which addresses the need to protect Azure VMs from viruses.
Unfortunately, the current release of Microsoft Antimalware for Azure is extremely difficult to deploy, configure, and manage. The main reason for this is the lack of any UI for the administrator or end user. To do…
26 votesGood feedback!! We are working on it…
Corey
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Portal option to "Add/Remove from load balancer"
Please allow a portal user to pick an instance and remove it immediately from the load balancer.
This can be helpful in a production environment when you want to take an instance out of use so you can perform an upgrade or perform diagnostics on it.
Currently you'd need to edit an endpoint monitor to return a non-200 response.
The ability to then finish your maintenance work and then "Re-add to load balancer" would be necessary.
7 votesHey Andrew,
You can do this today using the probes from within the VMs. I suspect you want to do it directly from the portal in the same way as the probes, yes?
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…
9 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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1 vote
Please share more details on what was hard and what didn’t work!! We are VERY passionate to make this better. Please help us. :)
Corey
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Granular CPU and Memory Proivisioning
Allow the customer to add CPUs and RAM incrementally, so they aren't bound by the predetmined sizes Microsoft thinks is best.
Hyper-V allows this.
VMware allows this.It seems reasonable that Azure should allow this as well.
Obviously the billing model would have to be adjusted to add up the per-vCPU and per-GB-vRAM (per minutes) pricing.
Isn't this one patently obvious?
5 votesThanks for the feedback, Nick. This is good feedback and would require some complex billing models. Let us look at it.
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Reduce cloud costs with Shared virtual cores for Developers and Testers
In Azure the smaller configurations of Virtual Machines (either Windows or Linux) are:
Extra Small (A0) 1 Virtual Core shared 768 MB RAM
Small (A1) 1 Virtual Core 1.75 GB RAM
Medium (A2) 2 Virtual Cores 3.5 GB RAMYou can note that Extra-Small is the only configuration with shared virtual core.
Due to SQLServer requires a minimum of 1 GB of RAM, "Extra Small" has no enought size for running IIS and SQL Server.
The "shared virtual core" option is less expensive because you pay ONLY when your VM is consuming cycles of CPU (in other words, when App…
4 votesThanks for the feedback. Let’s see if this picks up in votes but it sounds valuable.
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acl order bug
the endpoint acl rules display with a wrong order number, if i use rest api or powershell to change the order number of some rules, it will still display the old number~~
1 voteWe will take a look at this and see if there is a bug here. Thanks for notifying us.
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Fix the incorrect IP's assigned to VM's
It appears new VM's are bing assigned IP's that are geolocated or identified in the wrong regions. In the most recent case, a US-East VM is being detected as coming from Brazil.
IP's should be selectable/changeable from the Admin Portal.
7 votesThanks for the feedback.
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How about the dynamic port mapping details
If a socket connection not active in more than 4 minutes, why the port mapping clear in windows azure vms
2 votesThanks, we will take a look at this one and see about extending.
Corey
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Tiered compute power, analogous to current RAM tiers.
Azure workloads are not all memory limited, nor can every job be easily refactored into a hadoop-like task. Based on current tests, it appears that the available processors are a great deal slower than personal budget laptops for various tasks.
Offering a blend of CPU/Memory options, or even a load balancer selection that uses auto-scale out based on compute bound or memory bound tasks would be a game changer.
4 votesInteresting request, AK. Let us look into the feasibility of something like this.
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Oracle Database VM for BizSpark Subscribers
I want to ask that if it Oracle Database VM is not for Biz Spark subscribers then why it is displaying in our VM list?
Do you think that it is a good practice that first you give option to your customers to create oracle DB VM then ask him to delete that VM ignoring that he have some saved work in that VM.
I think this is your system bug.Thanks
1 voteThanks, Umar, for the feedback. Let us investigate.
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Don't send me Virtual Machine Maintenance emails if I don't have any VM deployments
The virtual machine maintenance window emails are annoying and I guess it is sent to every single Azure customer. I'm just a blob storage user and should not be receiving those emails.
4 votesGood feedback. Let us make sure to fix this!
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26 votes
Thanks, Stephen. Let’s see a few more votes on this and see the popularity.
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