Questions tagged [azure-availability-set]

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Difference in Azure Availability Sets and Scale Sets

Can someone define the difference between the two in the ARM portal. Also what would be the PowerShell if i need to add a new Azure RM VM to a existing AS(Availability Set)? Thanks Prab
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Azure website outage maintenance page

We have multiple webApps hosted on Azure. I want to design a consistent and standard mechanism to show an "Under Maintenance" static html page in case of Azure outage (planned and unplanned). At the moment we are not leveraging Availability sets or…
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What are 'managed' and 'non-managed' availability sets?

I'm trying to provision an Azure VM programmatically and I got this: An unhandled exception of type 'Microsoft.Rest.Azure.CloudException' occurred in mscorlib.dll Additional information: Addition of a VM with managed disks to non-managed…
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Application Insights for AzureWebsite showing GET / requests every five minutes even after deleting availability test

I have a production Azure website that I deployed a few days ago. I saw the "Availability" section in application insights (configured server side AI and client side AI is enabled right now) and through the new portal (portal.azure.com) I decided to…
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Do you know of a good explanation for fault domains and update domains?

I'm new to Azure and have been struggling with a concept specifically update domains and fault domains. Probably having a harder time understanding Update Domains. So as I understand it, having 3 VMs in 3 fault domains would be essentially having…
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What is a difference between the Availability Zones and Fault domains feature of the Availability Sets in Microsoft Azure?

What is a difference between the Availability Zones and Fault domains feature of the Availability Sets in Microsoft Azure? I am working through the module Discuss core Azure architectural components. And there I met the description of the Fault…
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Azure how to receive the assigned fault domain id of a virtual machine in an availability set using any CLI/API?

I'm trying to retrieving the Fault Domain ID of a VM inside an availability set. Those ID's are assigned "by random" to the virtual machines in question but it is important for me and the application to know what fault domain id the vm is assigned…
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How to find maximum update domains/fault domains available in an Azure region

The only way I know of to enquire maximum update domains or fault domains allowed for creation of an avaiability set in Azure is by passing very large values and then parsing the error message. Is there a better way to query for the maximum…
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Can I remove an Azure VM from an Availability Set

I can't find any instructions on how to remove an azure VM from an availability set. Is this even possible or do I have to delete then re-create the VM with the existing disks? I have some VMs witch where created as single instances in availability…
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Availability Set in Availability Zone Azure

I’ve read somewhere that availability sets can be deployed in availability zones, however I can’t find the doc again. Now I cannot find the doc and can’t find anywhere to validate what was written. So my question is can an availability set be…
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why azure virtual machines should be created in in the same resource group as the availability set

I am creating azure virtual machine within an availability set. While creating, I have created a new resource group. Doing so, I am not allowed to select availability set I created in different resource group. why it is a requirement that virtual…
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how to create a Terraform for_each loop for number of virtual machines in Azure availability set

We could create multiple azure vms in a availability set using "count" loop. How can we create the same using "for_each" loop where the hostname and network interfaceid will be dynamic and looped over. (in terrraform > 0.12.6) resource…
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How to check the availability for the internal app services hosted inside internal App Service Environment

I am trying to setup the availability test (URL-Ping test) in Azure Application Insights, but the endpoint that requires the basic authentication. And the endpoint(Azure App Services) resides in internal App Service Environment (ASE). So, can anyone…
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Azure AKS - splitting node pool over multiple Availability Zones

I'm new to Azure so please bear with me! I'm looking to create a HA (99.99%) node pool for AKS. I am more familiar with AWS and availability zones, whereby I'd split the auto scaling group over 3 AZs and that would be that. It appears that Azure…
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Understanding availability set in Windows Azure

I am reading the explanation of Availability Sets on Microsoft' website but can't 100% understand the concept. http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/manage-availability-virtual-machines/ There are many questions people ask in…
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