Virtual Machines
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Effective route tables for VMSS
As confirmed by PG in Support case 119091125000146 there is no way to query the effective route table for a VMSS instance, thus leaving 100% VMSS based infrastructures completely blind.
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Docker private registry offer on Azure
It would be great to see an Azure offering for hosting/managing private Docker registries.
Motivation: getting up and running with Docker on Azure in a fast and safe way (high availability, valid SSL certificate out of the box, etc.).
Similar offers elsewhere: Container Registry (https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/), Amazon EC2 Container Registry (https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/).
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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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[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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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.
29 votesLet us investigate this request!
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Azure's status board availability
The Microsoft Azure status board should live outside Azure's ecosystem just because when there is a problem with some Azure´s service, the Microsoft Azure status page may not be available for the same issue.
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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
29 votesI like this idea. Let’s increase the vote count and i think we could build this.
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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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History of scheduled event
For the maintenance that doesn't require a reboot, customers can know it only through Scheduled Events API.
Several customer requests easier way to grasp the affected resources and that history (e.g. dashboard).
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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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Allow VM console access when storage account has firewall enabled
It's pretty ridiculous that the Azure VM serial console won't work when the boot diagnostics storage account has a firewall enabled.
First, it should be possible to use a firewall for additional protection of boot diagnostics. I understand that the storage has to be written from the host server, not the VM, so it might not be on the correct vnet; but this should be considered a "trusted Azure service", or there should be another option to allow it.
Second, the Serial Console is not the same as boot logging. They are two separate things! I should be able to…
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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…27 votesYes, this is good feedback. We are looking at the best way to resolve this.
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27 votes
Thanks, Stephen. Let’s see a few more votes on this and see the popularity.
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The virtual machines of the B series do not inform about the bandwidth. All series report about bandwidth except type B machines. Accordin
The virtual machines of the B series do not inform about the bandwidth.
All series report about bandwidth except type B machines.
According to Microsoft they do not inform because it is a variant connection, but at least they should indicate the minimum and maximum.
As in all series in the NIC part, the bandwidth must also appear.
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Allow Azure Resource Move for Virtual Machines with Managed Disks
The idea is simple. Please allow Azure Resource Move for Virtual Machines with Managed Disks attached.
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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=WAVirtualMachinesforWindowsI 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
26 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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Should be able to copy snapshots between regions in Azure Portal
You have a powershell script to do this documented here:
However, it would be much more convenient if you exposed this functionality via the Azure Portal.
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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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