Lab Services
Azure Lab Services is a service that enables you to easily set up and provide on-demand access to various systems and software for any workload: teaching a class, setting up a development or test environment, or running trials with customers. Manage and scale your group’s resources in lab environments, while minimizing waste and controlling cost. Choose between the two lab types, classroom lab or devtest lab, for an experience that is tailored to your scenario.
Visit the Azure Lab Services page to learn more.
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Allow for greater variety of auto-shutdown schedules
Allow for greater variety of auto-shutdown schedules
E.g.:
- multiple times per day;
- various days in the week;
- weekends;
- recurring dates;
- one-time; etc.5 votesThanks for the feedback. We have this in our backlog and needs to be prioritized with other features. for those who would like to see this sooner, please vote for it.
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Azure Bastion: DevTest Labs support
DevTest Labs users should have an option to use Azure Bastion to connect their VM when clicking "Connect" in DevTest Labs VM blade in Azure Portal.
4 votesThanks for your feedback. We are actively working on integrating Azure Bastion in DevTest Labs to enable browser connect on lab VMs. We will post azure updates once this is supported.
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Multiple Auto-Shutdown Times for each VMs
Be able to implement multiple auto-shutdown times for each VMs through the portal.
4 votesThanks for your feedback. We prioritize features based on the number of votes on the same. For those who would like to see this feature sooner, please vote for it.
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Ability to restore VM's to original state post creation
At present we can create snapshots of the VM's however no further use unless we create VHD's and then manually re-create VM again which require much more efforts. Instead please add some functionality to store the VM states where the restore of VM to the point saved can be completed. For example system restore function is used to restore the system state in this case VM with data should be stored or saved to restore to the restore points instead of just system or OS data.
4 votesThanks for your feedback.
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delete unused VMs in DevTest Labs
As an extension to the expiry date in DTL, an option to auto-delete VMs not used for xx days would be awesome.
Maybe even a warning e-mail to the VM owner before the deletion2 votesThanks for submitting your feedback.
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Option to auto shutdown VM when no user is active for X minutes
While the auto shutdown on a daily basis is great, if I haven't been logged in for an hour it would be nice if the machine would shut down automatically. This is especially true as I am experimenting with developing using an Azure VM
2 votesThanks for submitting the feature request.
We are working on a feature to shut down machines that are detected to be idle for an x amount of time (x configured by the lab owner)
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Attach Multiple Data Disks With ARM Template / Via Portal
There are no options to create and attach data disks when creating a new resource within the DTL GUI.
When using an ARM template to deploy a VM with an attached data disk it appears I am only able to attach one disk using the following syntax:
"dataDiskParameters": [
{
"attachNewDataDiskOptions":
{
"diskSizeGiB": "32",
"diskName": "[concat(parameters('newVMName'), '-IIS')]",
"diskType": "Standard"
}
}
],Attempting to add multiple lines to create other disks is ignored and only one disk is ever added.
It would be very useful for my users if they were able to specify whether they would like to attach…
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Clarify Event initiator for Autoshutdown activity log
Dear Lab Service dev team,
I'm Insan working in Azure Tech Support in Korea.Currently VM activity log does not show clear view of Deallocate VM event by autoshutdown.
Only way to figure it out is to filter logs with "Event initiated by = Azure Lab Services" (see attached)
This is very obscure for customer's point of view and difficult to understand that VM was stopped due to autoshutdown event.
Please improve logging for autoshutdown in Activity Log for better customer experience.
I suggest we add additional comment on Event initiator, such as "Azure Lab Services (autoshutdown)"
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Disable Autoshutdown by default when creating a VM in Azure Portal
Dear Lab Service Dev team,
I'm Insan working in Azure Tech Support in Korea.
Our customers have very poor experience for using VMs because VM creation page has Autoshutdown enabled by default.In many cases, customers don't care so much about Management tab and they are not aware of enabling Autoshutdown when create a VM.
Please set autoshutdown disabled by default in VM creation page.
Thanks,
Insan1 vote -
Select NSG for DevTest Labs VM on creation
Currently there is no way to select a VM-level NSG for a DevTest Labs VM. In order to allow both VM-level and subnet-level NSGs to both be applied to a VM (for example, per policy requirements). This should be possible when creating a VM in DevTest Labs.
1 voteNetworking for DevTest Labs is handles at lab level.
You can add your own VNET to the lab under configuration and policies – Virtual Networks.
Lab users can select a specific network they want to create their VM in from a dropdown that is configured by the lab owner.Can you share more on why you would like to configure the NSG while creating a lab VM?
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Overview 'My virtual machines' has a scrollbar for both column values and column titles
In the overview tab, 'My virtual machines' has a scroll bar for both the columns titles and column values.
I believe this wasn't intended and isn't often seen. Typically they move together so you can more easily associate values with titles/labels.
1 voteOn the overview blade, there is a scroll bar only to scroll down to view a list of VMs. Can you please elaborate on the issue you are experiencing?
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postpone or cancel auto shutdown
I have my VM set to shut down at 7PM, however I'd like an ability to skip the shutdown on a particular day, in case I am working late.
Currently I have to delete the auto shutdown and enable it again once 7PM had passed.1 voteFor every schedules shutdown, you can set up a notification that will be sent to you 30 mins prior to the scheduled time. You can use that notification to either delay or skip the shutdown for that day, Does this help?
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Custom advanced notice for auto-shutdown notification
It looks like the only option for the auto-shutdown notification is the default 30mins. It would be great if I could adjust it (to say 2 hrs) so that I can get the notification during my workday when I'm still checking email.
1 voteThanks for your feedback. For those who would like to see this sooner, please vote for it.
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Feature Request : Auto turn off rule like "turn off after 30 minutes from logoff"
Feature Request : Auto turn off rule like "turn off in 30 minutes after last logoff"
1 voteThanks for your feedback. We will add this to our backlog and prioritize based on number of votes. For those who would like to see this feature sooner please vote for it.
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Don't send DevTestLabs shutdown notifications for production VM's
We are receiving notifications with a subject line of "Alert—Auto-shutdown of virtual machine <machine name> in 30 minutes.
The VM in question is, I am assured by our infrastructure team, in a production resource group, in a production subscription, with a production SLA.
It does have an automatic shutdown configured by some mechanism, but I do not know the mechanism.
Notifications from microsoft should not be stating that this is a notification from DevTest labs, since the VM is not in a DevTest Lab according to the infrastructure team.
1 voteThe auto shutdown for Azure Compute VMs can be disabled and is not something that needs to be enforced on the machine.
If you are the owner of the VM and using it for a production scenario, you should be able to opt out of the shutdown schedule to ensure your VM will keep running. Do you own the VM you are talking about?The shutdown mechanism is provided by the DTL team, however the message should not say DevTest Labs unless the VM is in a lab. Can you confirm if your VM is in fact outside of a lab?
If you are using a DTL VM, it is meant to be used for Dev and Test scenarios only and shutdown can be set at lab level by your lab owner and at lab VM level depending on the level of control you have on setting DTL VM level…
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Time Format for Auto-Shutdown on Portal
The format or way of selecting time on the Portal needs to be improved.
E.g.
allow 24hr clock option
schedule up and down times across a given week start/stop
(date selection covered in a different posted idea)1 voteThanks for your feedback.
For those who would like to see this earlier, please vote for it.
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Support auto-shutdown that does a deallocate as well
Auto-shutdown is great, but I'd like it to deallocate as well, so I don't get charged. That's my primary reason for wanting auto-shutdown, so I don't get charged for a playground VM twiddling its thumbs overnight.
1 voteAuto shutdown does deallocate VMs today.
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autoshutdown manual default value
Oftentimes admin has same single or few needs of values for autoshutdown TZ and hour.
Would be nice to have be able to set default value in webUI (or use saved user profiles if you plan to add more flexibility and choices to that option)1 voteThanks for your feedback.
Can you please describe your scenario?
Currently, the lab schedule applies as a default schedule for all lab VMs and lab owner can also configure how lab users can set schedules on their VMs through the shutdown schedule policy. -
Ability to specify a time to send email notification to "n" time before the shutdown
Send an email to ___ minutes before the auto shut down
1 voteThanks for your feedback. We do have this feature in our backlog with no timeline unfortunately.
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Azure Dev Test Labs new VM azure hybrid option while using Microsoft base images.
If possible can we include an option to choose Azure Hybrid option while creating VM's in the Dev Test Lab using Microsoft base images so that we can use BYOL.
1 voteThanks for submitting your feedback. We have this feature in our backlog with no ETA at this point. For those who would like to see this feature sooner, please vote for it.
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