Jun 16, 2021 · VMSS Flex now gives you FULL control over these VMs. You have control over the NICs the Disks, you can snapshot them, back them up individually, use Azure Site recovery… Everything you can do with the existing VM ecosystem. This has real potential. VMSS Flex is still in preview. If you want to check it out, follow the instructions here.

Sep 7, 2021 · We have extended support for VM management service like Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery to VMSS Flexible Orchestraton mode. Example: N-Tier Application with VMSS Flexible Orchestration. Let’s look at a how you can use VMSS Flexible Orchestration mode to simplify a traditional N-Tier Application virtual machine architecture.

Nov 14, 2024 · In this blog, we will explore different options to reimage a Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) and its instances. We’ll analyze how the activity logs appear after reimaging a VMSS or when reimaging individual instances. When a VMSS is reimaged, three main events are logged in the Activity Log: Accepted, Started, and Succeeded. There are ...

Nov 3, 2021 · One of the big asks from Availability Sets customers was the ability to assign VMs to a specific Fault Domain, with VM Scale Sets you can now specify the fault domain as you deploy and attach the VM to VMSS. Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery are also available with VM Scale Sets giving you rich support for BCDR. Control

Mar 16, 2023 · Configure the Azure Application Gateway to use the autoscale settings for the VMSS. In the Azure portal, navigate to the Application Gateway and select "Autoscaling" from the left-hand menu. Choose the VMSS autoscale setting that you created earlier. Once you have completed these steps, the VMSS will automatically scale up and down based on the ...

Mar 2, 2021 · E.g. az vm create –vmss “myVMSS” –-platform _fault_domain 1. We are also unifying the VM experience across our offerings. VMs which are created with VMSS-flex are Azure Resource Manager (ARM) based VMs. The VM and its resources are individually addressable like any other VM unlike the existing uniform orchestration mode.

Feb 28, 2024 · I am afraid that Azure VMSS Agent doesn't support setting the user used to run the agent. By default, it will create the user AzDevOps and run the agent under the AzDevOps Account. The AzDevOps Account will be added to the …

Nov 19, 2024 · The Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion feature simplifies the migration process, enabling customers to update their scale set environment to the Azure recommended zone-redundant availability strategy without the need to delete and recreate instances or experience application downtime.

Jun 7, 2023 · Starting November 2023, the –orchestration-mode parameter for az vmss create in Azure CLI will have a new default value of “flexible”, replacing the current default of “uniform”. VM Scale Sets created using az vmss create after this change will default to “flexible” orchestration mode if no --orchestration-mode is specified.

Sep 13, 2021 · The Azure Monitor Agent needs to be installed on all machines within the scale set. The agent would then by default send heartbeats to Azure Monitor, about once per minute. Each of the heartbeats would create a log entry in Azure Monitor. With the right query it is then possible to derive the number of VMSS instances from the heartbeats: