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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Auto-start of a VM when the user tries RDP
Scenario:
End user has set up Dev/Test Labs and also turned on Auto-shut off at a specific time - Now usually this is at end of day. So end users use the VMs (mostly by connecting using RDP) for the day and auto shut off happens towards end. So next day when end users troop in, and launches the RDP he finds the machine shutdown and has to manually go to the portal to get it started. This is frustrating as it involves additional time spent logging into Azure, starting the VM etc.,. This is where this feature request comes…40 votesWe have closed that request as it would be technically very challenging to implement and hence become very costly, so we believe it will never make it as a priority. We took the requirement to help you get to the running VM without many steps, that may be the road we will take.
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Have an auto start up alongside the auto shutdown
I'd like to be able shut down the server at, say, 1am but have it automatically start up again at 8am,
25 votesWe are about to start work on this feature. We are consolidating this request with a similar one.
Thanks!
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Auto-start and Auto-shutdown bulk options
I'd like to be able to configure DevTest lab machines to auto start when created. Otherwise, I'd like to be able to apply auto-start or auto-shutdown policies to all VMs.
21 votesCurrently, you can apply auto shutdown policy to all VMs in the Lab. We will post the second ask on a separate thread to get more responses.
Link to that thread: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/320373-devtest-labs/suggestions/32702260-configure-devtest-lab-machines-to-auto-start-when
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Duplicate/Clone DevTest Lab fro each dev team
After short discussion in our DevOps department we realized that best use of DevTest Labs would be ability to create 'template' DevTest Lab. Such DevTest Lab would be configured with resources and VMs mirroring production environment, then replicated and assigned to each dev team to develop and test in virtual Prod replica. This would go side by side with Feature branch, respecting existing Prod configuration requirements, but allowing extending it during development. Easy access to a template for such DevTest Lab would make deployment of code and infrastructure very clean and repeatable reducing manual configuration issues.
12 votesCurrently you can spin up a DevTest Lab from an ARM template. You can clone a Lab using the underlying ARM template of an existing Lab.
Please refer to these docs for more info on the same: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devtest-lab/devtest-lab-use-arm-and-powershell-for-lab-resources
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9 votes
Currently we provide with two options to receive notification for auto start and auto shutdown. They include webhooks and emails.
For the second ask, we have posted a separate thread on the user voice forum for more responses: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/320373-devtest-labs/suggestions/32701450-adding-an-option-to-send-a-notification-when-deplo
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auto shutdown powershell
Get , Set Auto shutdown cmdlets for Azure VMs. I see a mention that they're there but I can't find the documentation anywhere
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Allow multiple email addresses when using Auto-shutdown
On the Auto-shutdown screen, allow the addition of multiple email addresses in the email field rather than just the one. I tried using ; but that didn't validate. This would be useful if more than one person needs to know about the scheduled shutdown and would be much easier being able to enter a couple of email address than have to set something else up using webhooks.
6 votesThis should be working now.
As we don’t monitor this website frequently, please post bugs on our MSDN forum: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=AzureDevTestLabs
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Add ability to get list of DevTest Labs in Powershell
It would be nice to be able to Get-AzureRMDTL to get a list of all labs in a subscription.
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Artifact // Add hyper-V
Create Artifact for nested Virtualization.
Create Virtual Switch
VM Provisionning.Could you think this could be a good idea?
Thanks
YK
4 votesThanks for your feedback.
For artifacts that you fond helpful for your context we advise you write your own and store it in a private artifact repo.
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Missing property WebhookUrl when setting auto-shutdown notifications
If I try to set auto-shutdown notification by email only appear the error "MissingRequiredProperty Missing required property WebhookUrl."
But it said that at least one should be filled which for me is enough with the email.
4 votesSorry for the inconvenience. We hope this is working for you now.
As we don’t monitor this website frequently, please post bugs on our MSDN website: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=AzureDevTestLabs
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Allow a DTL custom image to contain (multiple) data disks
When creating a custom DTL image it can only contain an OS while managed images outside DTL can contain data disks as well. It would be great if an custom DTL image can also contain one or more data disks so when you create an instance from that image the VM already contains multiple disks.
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Add Ubuntu Template to Azure Lab Services
Currently, only CentOS and OpenSUSE seem available via Azure Lab Services. Please expand to various Ubuntu templates as well.
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2 votesPlease post bugs on our MSDN Forum https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=AzureDevTestLabs&filter=unanswered&sort=lastpostdesc) or create a support ticket here: https://portal.azure.com/?feature.customPortal=false#blade/Microsoft_Azure_Support/HelpAndSupportBlade/newsupportrequest
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Allow to modify 'internal support website' content
Could you please provide allow to modify from PowerShell or ARM template content of 'internal support website?
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Automatic Shutdown + Start
Automatic Shutdown should stay with Automatic Start! I cannot find any option to choose the time I want to start my VM along with Automatic Shutdown page. Can you please merge these two functions?
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How can I create VM from a formula in ARM template?
I want to create VM from a formula with the use of ARM template. But I
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Fix issue where deallocated VMs are missing/deleted
In DevTest lab, if I look at the list of my VMs (all deallocated), the statuses load for all but one - that status seems to try to load forever.
If I drill down into that VM I get the message "This asset was not found, it may have been deleted." It most certainly was not.
So in Azure, I can expect VMs to randomly disappear? I cannot recommend to my company that we continue migrating to Azure with issues like this (I have had many other bad issues too).
If I try to get help via support it asks…
2 votesAs we don’t monitor this website frequently, please post bugs on our MSDN forum for a quicker response: social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home..
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planificar el arranque de la VM
me gustaría planificar el horario de arranque y desde que día hasta que día se aplica para maquinas de test donde solo tiene sentido que la maquina funcione en esos horarios
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New VMs randomly hang in Creating state
A significant percentage of VM creations in DevTest Labs fail for unknown reason, and the failure process takes incredibly long time.
They often keep hanging in "Creating" state for 5-10 hours where user cannot even stop or delete VMs. It could be a serious issue if we were charged by unusable VMs for such a long time.
In the activity log, I always see "Write Users" "Create Environment" "Write RoleAssignments" failures, but I have no idea about the relations to the issue.
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