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Support ZRS for Virtual Machine boot diagnostics & diagnostics settings

Here's the scenario: You deploy VMs across availability zones 1-3. You enable boot diagnostics and diagnostics settings and are forced to use LRS/GRS. You opt for one of those. Later Zone 2 goes down, and the storage cluster with the storage account also goes down (bound to Zone 2). And now you lose essential storage for the VMs in Zones 1 and 3, potentially breaking services if any of those VMs reboot or attempt to boot up/deploy.

Other services are perfectly fine supporting GPv2 ZRS for zone redundancy. VMs being a primary candidate for zone redundancy also should support GPv2 ZRS for Boot Diagnostics and Diagnostics Settings.

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Aidan Finn shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  • Dave Lee commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed... we definitely need VMs to be able to use ZRS storage accounts for diagnostics.

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