Virtual Machines
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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).
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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 - Japanese
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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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Clone complete Resource Group
For DEV/TEST/PROD environments, it would be great to have a the possibility to clone all resources within a resource group to a new one. (Public IP's and other unique resources will be an issue), but as far as the VM's are cloned, it would save A LOT of time!
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The Azure VM internal DNS domain names are too long.
The Azure VM internal DNS domain names are too long.
Azure IaaS VM's created using the Preview Portal using the
"Resource Manager" deployment model generate DNS domain names
that are too long, for example:03v3fn0ewrau5aiydhfewgpjza.cx.internal.cloudapp.netSince the FQDN max length, in Linux at least is 64 chars, that
leaves only 12 chars for the "Computer Name". There are no
warnings or protections on creating a VM with a length longer
than 12, so when the host comes up, and DHCP sets the hostname
based on the "Computer Name" it finds that it has an illegal
FQDN length.It seems that…
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Make Solaris, OpenSolaris and SmartOS VMs available
Pretty please, allocate some resources to make Oracle Solaris and smartOS by Joyent (the Node.js guys) VMs available in Azure. This is a one time gig for y'all and lifetime ease-of-use for your consumers!!
I am familiar that we can build our own system, but last time I checked, Hyper-V has issues with SmartOS in networking (legacy switch) area. A blog by Azure/MSOpenTech to configure Solaris and SmartOS in Azure and local/private Hyper-V would be really really helpful.
Thanking you in anticipation.
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Install os on vm from file.iso
Definitely want to see this as the current procedure to create and upload VM's is not easy or user friendly.
Compared to the rest of the Azure platform this is a big let down. If you look at vCloud for instance the ability to upload an ISO or an OVA/F to build VM's makes my life as an admin much easier.
Please implement some form of ISO/OVA/OVF
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total and regional and vCPU
The total regional vCPUs should be increased similar way as for each individual SKUs via the Usage + quotas page.
As total regional VCPUs is not the sum of each individual quotas, its increase is a separate request.18 votes -
virtual machine (VM) - simple - snapshot/image
One of the best features about running a virtual machine is the ability to snapshot/image a running VM so that you can revert back to it in case of a misconfiguration or other issue that would be difficult to recover from.
This is also a great non-intrusive way to backup machines without pegging CPU cycles (driving up cloud hosting costs).
I was able to do this with VMs running in Rackspace cloud and I believe other cloud hosting providers allow it. Why not Azure? It would be very important.
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rename objects (affinity group, service bus, etc)
I hate how some types of objects can't be renamed.
Please let me rename things like Affinity Groups.
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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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Integrate VM Windows Updates with Availability Sets
I would like to turn on automatic updates for our Windows virtual machines running on Azure but we can't because they are not integrated with Availability Sets. That is, I cannot guarantee that another node won't be down (being moved by Azure, etc) when Automatic Updates kicks in.
Even as it is, when we manually install updates, there's nothing preventing Azure from taking down the other nodes in the Availability Set, because Azure does publish its maintenance window.
I would like to be able to let the Azure service control and install Windows / Microsoft updates with respect to Availability…
18 votesGood feedback. More granular control of the WU updates would be a nice thing to consider.
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Offer SMB 3.0 support for Windows 7 machines.
We need an update to enable SMB 3.0 support for Windows 7 machines. Older projects using NET USE scripts to attach to Azure storage can no longer access their containers.
Windows 7 machines that use to access the file shares in a storage account can no longer connect to file shares using the NET USE command. As a long time user of Azure it feels like Microsoft has left us behind. Upgrading all our users to win 10 is not an easy task..17 votes -
ARM Portal: creating VMS using your own images or disks
In classic portal I can create VMs using an image that I created by a snapshot. In the new portal there is no such option. The only way is to switch back to the classic portal or using powershell.
When deploying a virtual machine there is no option choosing your harddrives or your own images.17 votes -
Provide Apache Camel components for your queue product and others
The Apache Camel framework is a popular and great product. Briefly, its purpose is to move enterprise messages across heterogenous protocols. Some people like me wish to move messages to and from many Azure services using Apache Camel.
As an example your competitor Amazon AWS already has these components. You can take inspiration from AWS.! See this link
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Give the ability to snapshot a VM
Want an easy way to snapshot a VM and restore to that point. The snapshot should capture all disks (except temporary storage) and provide an easy button poke to restore to that point as well.
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share disks between Virtual Machines
It would be nice a way to attach the same disk to multiple virtual machines. There are some products that need to write information in disk. To enable availability you add more virtual machines, but the product won't replicate information. To solve this, an easy way would be point Vm's to write and share the same disk.
17 votesunder review ·AdminAzure IaaS Engineering Team
(Azure IaaS Engineering Team, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure)
responded
This is a nice feature. We are looking into it. In the interim, please check out Azure Files as a workaround using an SMB file share.
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Allow Cancelling a Running Command started via "Run Command"
From this issue:
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/12741
We should have the ability to cancel a command started via "Run Command." This would primarily be to allow a new command to be started in its place, but the ability to (possibly) actually cease the command on the server itself could also be helpful.
The ability to store common scripts and run them would help make this "I just noticed a syntax error and want to try again" problem less of an issue, but that's already covered here: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/216843-virtual-machines/suggestions/34455544-run-command-browse-azure-storage-for-script
16 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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Please keep "Red Hat Customer Portal" link in the Azure portal after restoring a VM
After restoring Azure Red Hat VM, "Red hat Customer Portal" link disappeared.
Please keep "Red Hat Customer Portal" link in the Azure portal after restoring a VM. This link is really useful.16 votes -
Allow a VM to be added to an availability set without recreating the VM
Currently after you have created a VM you are not able to add this to an existing or new availability set. It would be great if this was available function to be completed at any point during a VM's lifecycle.
16 votes
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