Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
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VM Scale Set hr-dev-web-vmss is stuck in a marked‑for‑deletion state
We are unable to complete deletion of resource group hr-dev-rg-xxejvp due to a Virtual Machine Scale Set (hr-dev-web-vmss) that is marked for deletion. The VMSS returns HTTP 409 – OperationNotAllowed for all update operations, which prevents us from…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
asked 2026-04-02T23:22:53.4066667+00:00
Jasmin leroux
20
Reputation points
commented 2026-04-07T01:11:52.6766667+00:00
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Jilakara Hemalatha
11,515
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
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2 answers
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vmss_KeyVaultForWindows extension in failed state - deployment failing.
VMSS KV extension is in failed state - and deployment is failing with the following error. Status: Failed Error: Code: VMExtensionProvisioningTimeout Message: Provisioning of VM extension vmss_KeyVaultForWindows has timed out. Extension provisioning…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-04-01T11:36:43.65+00:00
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Asmita Yadav
40
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
accepted 2026-04-06T17:10:49.57+00:00
Asmita Yadav
40
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
5 answers
One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
Azure Temp Drive for General Storage
Can I use the temporary disk (the D: drive by default) to store data? Sourced from MSDN
Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Virtual Machines
An Azure service that is used to provision Windows and Linux virtual machines.
10,016 questions
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2019-10-29T20:00:37.183+00:00
Micah McKittrick
957
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
Moderator
commented 2026-04-06T15:42:59.5933333+00:00
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Ilyas Farrakhov
0
Reputation points
2 answers
Unhealthy scale set instance for scale set "FE"
Hi Team, All Scale set instance under VMSS "FE" are unhealthy, I have tried restarting scale set instance to see if it helps but it didn't what can be done here? Tenant is GME. It is in prod environment. Because of this, auto upgrade is…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-03-11T05:24:57.91+00:00
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Harini Gopinath
0
Reputation points
commented 2026-03-24T07:46:34.1166667+00:00
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Manish Deshpande
5,255
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
2 answers
New node I create are missing AKSLinuxExtension
I can't scale up node pool. Scaling to 1 silently fails. VMSS is missing AKSLinuxExtension. All new nodes system created are missing this extension. VMSS never attaches to AKS
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-03-13T19:35:03.45+00:00
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Greg Toews
0
Reputation points
answered 2026-03-13T21:06:16.1433333+00:00
Jilakara Hemalatha
11,515
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
3 answers
VM size is currently not available in your region for this subscription
Hi, I am using Azure free trial with 200 credits. I upgraded to pay as you go. Now I'm stuck on a part where I have to create a cloud management gateway. I logged in, choose my app, choose my certificate but then im getting an error "VM size is…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-02-28T17:44:16.6066667+00:00
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Aizen Sousuke
0
Reputation points
commented 2026-03-09T04:45:33.31+00:00
Manish Deshpande
5,255
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
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2 answers
Excluding VM Application version from "latest" does not work.
If a VM scale set is configured to install a VM Application version "latest" then the version selected will always be the latest deployed (or highest version number), even if that version was marked to be excluded from "latest" and an…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-03-05T23:11:16.5666667+00:00
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Ed Hanway
0
Reputation points
answered 2026-03-06T00:06:22.3033333+00:00
Jilakara Hemalatha
11,515
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
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VMSS stuck in "0 to 1" state for hours, no allocation, no errors
Scaling a newly created VMSS from 0 to 1 instance. The VMSS stuck in "0 to 1" state for hours, no error. Checked the VM family is supported in the region. Checked family vCPU and Total vCPU quota ok.
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-02-19T15:33:35.5066667+00:00
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Vassily Lyutsarev (NON EA SC ALT)
20
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
accepted 2026-02-25T17:57:58.05+00:00
Vassily Lyutsarev (NON EA SC ALT)
20
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Unexpected outage during AKS update window
During our scheduled update window, we experience regular but brief outages with our web application running on AKS. When we've looked into the Change Analysis section of Azure, we notice that VMSS and Disk upgrades are happening around the time of the…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-02-13T21:55:22.42+00:00
Dean Ferley
45
Reputation points
edited an answer 2026-02-20T17:17:42.1833333+00:00
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Himanshu Shekhar
5,140
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
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VMSS still failing after Feb 2 incident — VMSS control‑plane operations broken, only instance APIs work
I have a Virtual Machine Scale Set running in East US 2 that was impacted by the Feb 2 service‑management outage. During the outage, the VMSS failed to download extensions from Microsoft‑managed storage. Autoscaling attempted to scale out, and I manually…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-02-03T19:48:22.6166667+00:00
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Mike Jones
20
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
edited a comment 2026-02-19T13:29:11.9266667+00:00
Jilakara Hemalatha
11,515
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
Half the instances in the VMMS are failing because they can not access the filesystem
As the title says, I have a workload that spawns 200 VMs using a VMSS to concurrently process the same set of files stored in a Storage Account, mounted using NFS. Exactly half of them (100) fail because the can not find the files. This happens ver…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-02-10T16:07:07.2033333+00:00
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Anibal Rivero
0
Reputation points
edited an answer 2026-02-17T21:38:38.78+00:00
Himanshu Shekhar
5,140
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
Azure Image builder failure when preparing an image update for my VMSS
Hi, I have created VMSS to run and scale my Windows services application. Now I'm trying to automate the process of rolling updates for the application using the Azure Image Builder. A did all prerequisites steps - settings permissions, etc. registering…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-02-11T13:22:06.48+00:00
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Martin Madanski
0
Reputation points
commented 2026-02-17T18:08:01.16+00:00
Jilakara Hemalatha
11,515
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
How should DCR association work with VMSS Flexible that only supports User-Assigned MI
Data Collection Rule (DCR) association with Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) in Flexible orchestration mode fails due to two distinct issues related to Managed Identity handling and Private Link configuration. Issue 1: DCR forces System-Assigned Managed…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-01-29T08:36:24.6966667+00:00
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PLADASLO
0
Reputation points
edited an answer 2026-02-05T01:02:21.35+00:00
Himanshu Shekhar
5,140
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
Azure → Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Hello Microsoft Community Team, I am currently running multiple applications on Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and would like guidance on industry best practices for managing deployments. Current Setup I have 12 different projects running on a…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-01-22T08:04:47.0333333+00:00
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Subhash Chand
0
Reputation points
commented 2026-01-29T01:15:27.84+00:00
Himanshu Shekhar
5,140
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
0 answers
How to fix "Provisioning of VM extension vmssCSE has timed out"
While scaling up. I get the following error. The exact same setup has worked for months, but suddenly fails with this error. What can I do? Provisioning of VM extension vmssCSE has timed out. Extension provisioning has taken too long to complete. The…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-01-05T11:32:06.8733333+00:00
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Bob
0
Reputation points
edited a comment 2026-01-23T13:04:12.5366667+00:00
Manish Deshpande
5,255
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
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Unable to RDP into VMSS instances after changing the image reference.
Symptoms: Remote Desktop connection fails to all VMSS instances Error: "Remote Desktop can't connect to the remote computer" (remote access not enabled / computer turned off / not available on network) Environment: Azure Virtual Machine…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-01-20T20:10:32.4666667+00:00
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Mayoor Shardha
20
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
accepted 2026-01-22T18:38:03.0266667+00:00
Mayoor Shardha
20
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Unable access OS disk of Virtual Machines Scale Set
I received error when I tried to access the personal data OS disk of my VMSS. "The access token is from the wrong issuer <personal data>. It must match the tenant <personal data>associated with this subscription. Please use the…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2025-12-31T02:54:20.9366667+00:00
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Tan Boon Huan
20
Reputation points
commented 2026-01-21T10:53:00.4366667+00:00
Manish Deshpande
5,255
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
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Automatic OS Upgrade operations are not supported for this subscription
az vmss update --name <vmss-name> --resource-group <rg> --enable-auto-os-upgrade true --upgrade-policy-mode Automatic (OperationNotAllowed) Automatic OS Upgrade operations are not supported for this subscription. Please register the…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-01-07T00:07:24.7233333+00:00
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Nitin Jamadagni Madapura Rajashekhar
20
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
accepted 2026-01-07T23:03:17.13+00:00
Nitin Jamadagni Madapura Rajashekhar
20
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
3 answers
One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
Unable to create VMSS
As per my development need Iam trying to create Azure Virtual machine scale sets in Centra India, E2a v4 but iam getting an error "Your subscription doesn't support virtual machine creation in South India. Choose a different location."
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-01-02T06:03:42.9766667+00:00
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System Administration
20
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answered 2026-01-07T11:41:49.1133333+00:00
System Administration
20
Reputation points
1 answer
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My Virtual Machine won't start due to an AKV access error even though the AKV is configured for VM deployment
When I try to start my VM instance I get this error: Key Vault <secret PII info removed> either has not been enabled for deployment or the vault id provided, <AKV resource id removed>, does not match the Key Vault's true resource…
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.
502 questions
asked 2026-01-06T15:43:05.4933333+00:00
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David Shiflet
20
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
commented 2026-01-06T20:37:15.2266667+00:00
David Shiflet
20
Reputation points Microsoft Employee