Virtual Machines
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VS 2010 Guest VM Role: Runs VSw/AzureTools: Allows sandbox development via RDP.
I'd like to deploy a special role that would provide me access to a endpoint I can connect to via Remote Desktop. When I login, I'd like a Virtual Visual Studio with Azure Tools, that has a XDrive (configured via configuration) so I can do all my Azure Development without ever having to install a thing. I'll pay monthly for the compute time I use developing, and the storage to keep my projects (via XDrive).
29 votesGood feedback. Something we will look at.
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Force a memory dump for Azure VMs
I wish that force a memory dump method implement for Azure VMs; like "Debug-VM -InjectNonMaskableInterrupt". https://technet.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/dn464280.aspx
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Azure Revered Instances - Applying reservation to single or multiple VMs
Azure Revered Instances - Applying reservation to single or multiple VMs.
Looks like someone in Azure product team really missed ball on this. Basic things like selecting a VM to apply reservation is not even properly setup or documented. This shows poor work effort provided by the group worked on it.
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Provide Cheaper N-Series VMs Via Less RAM/CPU
My specific situation with Azure necessitates high-bandwidth processing of many small tasks. As such, Azure's new GPU VMs (N-Series) sound great to my team, except we're not sure if we're paying for a Tesla M60 or for 56GB of RAM.
The point of GPUs in Azure is providing direct access to CUDA, and splitting processing into 4096 cores instead of 6. As such, a 6-core CPU and 56GB of RAM is highly unnecessary for the tasks I wish to execute on an NV6.
Microsoft, please provide other GPU instances that have the same amount of GPU power, but less RAM…
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Retrieve VM internalUUID from REST API
Since http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/10/13/accessing-and-using-azure-vm-unique-id/ ther's now there's now an Azure-unique UUID but you need to log into VM to get it.
It should be exposed in API (under RoleInstance entity?) so 3rd party integrations could identify uniquely VMs easily.
We've also missed a way in API to search for a certain VM without having to look in every cloud service. This unique UUID could be useful.
27 votesLet us investigate this request!
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add the ability to use preconfigure iso images like Amazon in VM role
Give the ability in VM role to use a preconfigure iso image, like the one Amazon has available.It will make easier to use and work with the VM role
27 votesI like this idea. Let’s increase the vote count and i think we could build this.
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[Request] Please enable users to configure VM reboot alert from Management Portal.
We can’t realize unexpected VM reboot before reporting the issue from users. Please enable users to configure VM reboot alert from Management Portal.
Microsoft Azure has some VM monitoring feature, such as CPU, Disk I/O, Network I/O and Web Endpoint, but we can't use it for VM reboot alert. We can use third party tools or OS settings, but it isn't easy way.- Japanese
利用者からの報告の前に仮想マシンの予期せぬ再起動に気づくことができません。管理ポータルから仮想マシンの再起動時のアラートを設定できるようにしてほしいです。仮想マシンの監視機能に、CPUや、ディスクI/O、ネットワークI/O、Web エンドポイントの監視がありますが、再起動のアラートに利用には利用できません。サードパーティのツールやOSの設定を利用することはできますが、容易ではありません。
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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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26 votes
Thanks, Stephen. Let’s see a few more votes on this and see the popularity.
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multiple custom script extension on azure vms
allow multiple custom script extension on azure vms
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Growing number of "Microsoft Hyper-V Network Adapters"
A VM is shut down and deallocated, a new network adapter will be used after it starts next time and the old network adapter is kept hidden.
When network adapter count is over 145, customer may face some network issue.
<https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/e206ea0a-9d61-4380-99a5-1543a12a7234/growing-numbers-of-microsoft-hyperv-network-adapters-cause-problems?forum=WAVirtualMachinesforWindows>I understand it is by design and we should delete hidden network adapter to resolve this issue.
However, when we deallocate and start VM because we need to reduce costs using Autoscale or automation or other, this behavior is very big problem.
I want to improve this behavior.
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OpenBSD Virtual Machine
I would love to see an OpenBSD virtual machine, we use OpenBSD along side windows and would be interested in moving our entire cloud services to you if there was an OpenBSD virtual machine
25 votesunder review ·
AdminAzure IaaS Engineering Team
(Azure IaaS Engineering Team, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure)
responded
We continue to look to providing additional OS variations.
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Public IP Mapping on Nested VM!
We are working on Azure Public and checking nested VM for this we have created one instance "Standard E4s v3 (4 vcpus, 32 GB memory)". Hyper-V role has been installed successfully and also we have created 3 VMs successfully, now when we are setting networking for these created VM per MS KB "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/user-guide/nested-virtualization" everything is working fine but our objective is still not getting solved with this.
We wanted to MAP a public IP on these VMs but per KB NAT is only solving purpose if we need to run internet only on created VMs or forwarding working…
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safemode for azure VM
How do boot my Azure VM in safemode? i can see VM's can connect only using RDP sessions.
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[REQUEST] Alert service admin and co-admins in case of VM reboot caused by Azure platform issue.
I have experienced VM reboot caused by host node issue several times. VM sometimes couldn’t startup successfully after reboot. Now, there is no way to know such kind of VM reboot immediately and I can’t do anything until I realize the issue by myself. Please alert service admin and co-admins in case of VM reboot caused by Azure Platform Issue.
- Japanese
Host OS の問題により仮想マシンが再起動したことが何度かあります。なかには、再起動後に仮想マシンが正常に起動しなかったこともございます。現在は、Host OS の問題により仮想マシンが再起動された際に、それを迅速に知る手段がないため、自分自身で問題に気づくまで対処ができません。 Azure プラットフォームの問題により仮想マシンを再起動する際には、サービス管理者ならびに共同管理者に通知してください。22 votes -
Dynamics CRM images on Azure
The Sharepoint Farm deployment on Azure is a great capability. Having a similar capability for Dynamics CRM (on-premises) is going to be a huge win. There is already the Dynamics CRM online offering, however this doesn't satisfy most of the use case scenarios and having the one click CRM instance deployment capability would be a huge leap
22 votesunder review ·AdminAzure IaaS Engineering Team
(Azure IaaS Engineering Team, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure)
responded
We are working closely with the Dynamics CRM team to bring CRM under full support when running in Azure Virtual Machines.
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Stopped vs Stopped (deallocated)
Today VMs can be in a stopped or stopped(deallocated) state. This is an important distinction for billing purposes as the stopped state continues to bill for resources and stopped (deallocated) does not. Needless to say this is confusing because the portal (old version) has a "Shutdown" command that puts the VM in the Stopped(deallocated) state but if you "shutdown" from within the VM it is just in a Stopped state.
PLEASE MAKE THIS DISTINCTION MORE CLEAR!! :-)
The new portal for managing VM only shows my stopped (deallocated) VMS as just Stopped. This is totally confusing.
Thanks!!!!
22 votesGreat feedback. We will work on making this more clear!!
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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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Chnage the default Azure temporary disk letter
Each Azure virtual machine comes by default with a Free and temporary drive, that is mounted in 'D:'
We all whish that Microsoft gives us the possibility to choose the letter of this temporary drive before deploying the VM.
Why ? Becasue the D: drive is the most used letter for data disks. This is a huge issue when migrating workloads from on-prem to Azure, and this is a real limitation.
I know there is a workaround to change the letter, but in case of unplanned fail over or host change, the temporary drive will be assigned the 'D:' drive,…21 votes -
Provide the ability to monitor and alert on VM disk IOPS
Currently, it is not possible to monitor, audit, or alert on IOPS on a per-disk basis. Whilst this is possible at the Storage Account level, that doesn't help when individual disks/VMs are getting throttled on the 500 IOPS limit.
I would like to be able to monitor IOPS on a per-disk basis, making it possible to proactively alert and manage, as well as retrospectively identify, instances where an individual disk was throttled as its IOPS were over the 500 limit (for standard storage).
20 votes
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