Virtual Machines
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Add more VM size options
The new A5, A6 are great but too expensive. I need something in between. I need a 4 core 14gb option. In addition, the prices you charge for more RAM seem steep. High end 16GB DIMMS cost $250., you basically charge that PER MONTH for the privilege of getting more RAM. It just seems out of whack.
6 votesThanks, Aaron. We will take a look at this. Do the BASIC sizes allow you to have a bit more flexibility in the pricing?
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whole disk encryption
the ability to have an HSM solution outside Azure while securing at the disk level - all resources and including databases.
2 votesThanks for the feedback. We just announced partnerships with Trend Micro to enable some encryption solution. This may meet your needs.
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Develop VM images, server types (i.e. high CPU core #), specifically for CPU cryptocurrency mining.
The mining software could be compiled and set up and updated for the most popular CPU cryptocurrencies (e.g., HeavyCoin HVC, Primecoin XPM, Riecoin RIC, etc.). The VM images could be developed for ease-of-use for non Linux savvy users who are interested in delving into crypto mining. There are many profitable services who sell Bitcoin or Litecoin cloud mining services, so Windows Azure could develop a line of CPU mining services to make it easy, since the infrastructure is already in place.
5 votesThanks! If this picks up some votes, we will look deeper at this very special case. :)
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Offer spot requests, similar to AWS
This is a significant advantage in the AWS offering. Using EC2 spot requests my effective price is much lower than in Azure.
5 votesThanks for the feedback. We will look at offering some reduced pricing options on Azure.
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Enterprise Administrative Services Suggestion for Azure Portal: http://tinyurl.com/m72bdwl
You can read a single page suggestions at: http://tinyurl.com/m72bdwl
Here is the overview of the content in the document noted above (and attached):
The Value is Here, Please Read All
After having an issue where I was unable to RDP into my VM I was very limited as to what I could manager via the Azure Portal. One item which would be very useful with or without RDP is a system services manager (i.e. Admin Tools > Services), so you can manage running services, turn on/off/restart and set manual, automatic, disabled. This is THE standard GO TO Management Tool as…
9 votesThis is a really nice idea. With our recent launch of the VM Agent in Virtual Machines, I think this is something we could likely enable. Let us spend some time thinking through this design.
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Allow BuzzTouch users to self host on his own website, a dedicated server, or an instance in Visual Studio or Windows Azure Store
Allow BuzzTouch users to self host on his own website, a dedicated server, or an instance in Visual Studio or Windows Azure Store without complex modifications.
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AdminAzure IaaS Engineering Team
(Azure IaaS Engineering Team, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure)
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We are looking into these options.
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Make creating virtual machines faster
I should be able to create a new virtual machine from the gallery and have it up an running in < 1 minute.
1 voteThanks for the feedback, Alan. I am guessing your feedback is more around improving the performance of the VM creation rather than the functionality, correct? I ask because the functionality already exists today.
Just so that you are aware, this forum is for Cloud Services. We also have a Virtual Machines community (http://feedback.windowsazure.com/forums/216843-virtual-machines) where you can find answers to all Virtual Machine related questions.
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Make it possible to download a compressed (zip?) vhd instead of the full vhd
Make it possible to download a compressed (zip?) vhd instead of the full vhd. Now I have to download the whole vhd and not just the bits that are actually used.
18 votesWe are thinking of enabling an easy way to download a dynamic VHD to reduce the download size, if that helps? Unfortunately, I don’t think VHD files compress that well.
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search by ip
It would be nice to search/filter virtual machines in the azure portal by IP number
108 votesThat is good feedback. As we expand out our networking capabilities, we will look at this.
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More Memory Needed in Entry-Level Subscription Plan
I am looking into Azure to host our point of sale software. After looking at the pricing, we realize that to serve just 1 user of our software, it will require at the minimum a "Small VM" subscription plan with 1.75GB of RAM in order to cope with some operations particularly resource-hungry report generation. And this would cost us $66.96/month.
At that rate after adding a profit margin for administrating the server and other stuff on our side, the end-user would end up with a price tag that continues to render the traditional localised system a more compelling option.
There…
2 votesCan you confirm, the primary goal here is to have more memory for a smaller price tag?
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Give us the ability to load windows 7, pos read 7, windows 8, windows 8.1
When it comes down to it those of us who actually use the msdn and the services, want to run and test both client and server builds, giving us access to client hardware that is on the same network as our servers would be excellent. I am in a hurting to install 2 or 3 clients windows 8.1 and pos read7 to do some actual testing. I know I can upload my own image file but it is overly inconvenient. since i have to down load the os from your servers and then convert the vhd and re-upload, when installing…
2 votesThanks, good feedback.
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Time of Scheculed Maintenance for Windows Azure VMs.
I'm posting this on behalf of my customer who contacted us for a scheduled maintenance which was supposed to affect single instance deployments of Windows Azure Virtual Machines which Microsoft scheduled on December 6, 2013 at 1500 hrs EST US. First of all, Friday, 1500 hrs is not at all off hours when any maintenance should be scheduled. Considering that this is Holiday season and there are 100s of 1000s online websites/businesses which are at their peak time of the year, no one can afford any downtime during this time. Customer contacted Microsoft for rescheduling it to first week of…
2 votesI really appreciate the feedback and agree we need to continue to make improvements in our planned maintenance progress.
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Difficulty deleting Disks
When I deleted a VM with out deleting the disks the disks can not be deleted later.
It allows neither to attach them nor delete them.
This is the error we get
There is currently a lease on the blob and no lease ID was specified in the request.5 votesAttempting to reopen this posting, given recent CSE Feedback indicating the issue may still be in play.
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Make contacting support easier
Azure clearly has some serious bugs. But the current process of contacting support to report these bugs sucks. We're supposed to sign up for a support subscription to tell you that your software is broken. Seriously?!?! Worse still, Microsoft is breaching their SLA's as a result. I can't wait for the class action lawsuit against Microsoft Azure.
I'd love to see a real support process that would enable regular paying users can report problems.
5 votesThanks for the feedback, Grant.
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RDP into virtual machines within portal
Allow me to remote into a virtual machine from within the portal, from any browser or client.
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Templates in a location should get that regional time setting. Not the US. There are other time zones!
Templates in a location (eg. Hong Kong) should get that regional time setting. Not the US. There are other time zones!
1 voteThanks, Aaron. You can pass into PowerShell and REST the timezone you want your VM deployed as. I think the feedback to do this via the portal is also good.
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SQL Server 2012 Web on Windows Server 2012 R2
Is anyone looking at it at all? Support guys forward here and looks for weeks no body even looks this.
In a week time we have to finalize between Amazon and Azure,
Amazon offers more combination then Azure for Windows VMs !!! Isn't this an irony?
Also default SQL Server already installs Data folder in C Drive, well this requires uninstalling and reinstalling SQL, because C drive uses caching which is not supposed to be used by SQL as recommended by MSDN and leaving master, tempdb all on C drive?
Instead why not offer SQL Installer without installation on Windows…
6 votesHey Akash. We do look here!! :)
We will chat with the SQL guys about this question.
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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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Get performance log data by API, currentry displayed in portal
performance log data ( CPU usage, network IO, disk IO ) API
original data of graph displayed in portal ,3 votesYes, I assume you mean enabling this data via an API, correct?
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Provide a way to backup/download VM VHD
As a user, I have setup my ubuntu VM from gallery. Configured it as per need. But now I would like to download copy of .VHD to save it as backup and also try changes locally first
9 votesWe already support download. Backup is something we are looking into.
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