Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Manage and scale up to thousands of Linux and Windows VMs.

Overview

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets let you create and manage a group of load balanced VMs. The number of VM instances can automatically increase or decrease in response to demand or a defined schedule.

Key Resources

Homepage: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/virtual-machine-scale-sets/
SLA: https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/virtual-machine-scale-sets/
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News

Date News
2/13/2024
Upgrade Policies for Virtual Machine Scale Sets using Flexible Orchestration provide a safe and consistent method to keep your scale set instances up-to-date.
11/15/2023
You can now easily bring existing VMs to an existing Virtual Machine Scale Set with Flexible Orchestration Mode to take advantage of the scaling orchestrations offered by scale sets. You can now...
11/15/2023
Zonal expansion for VMs and VM Scale Sets empowers users to smoothly transition their regionally configured VMs or VM scale sets into a zonal configuration across Azure availability zones,...
11/15/2023
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11/15/2023
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11/10/2023
Overview   Azure CycleCloud is an enterprise-friendly tool for orchestrating and managing High Performance Computing (HPC) environments on Azure. With CycleCloud, users can provision...
10/17/2023
New recovery options available on automatic instance repairs provides the capability for less-disruptive repair actions on sensitive workloads.
7/5/2023
Azure Government Cloud customers can now enable VM Insights via the new Azure Monitor Agent, to monitor the client workload on the VMs or VMSS.
6/26/2023
One is deploying an HPC embarrassingly parallel application in Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSSs) and realized that (i) ssh into VM instances is possible even when they have not been fully...
5/20/2023
Cale, Evan and Sujit talk to Neha Rathod, Akshay Gupta, Garv Jasuja and Vijay Chiluveru, who are Graduate Students at Penn State University that have developed a wireless monitoring device to...
5/17/2023
Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge provides you a new way of upgrading VM instances in a Virtual Machine Scale Set to the latest scale set model.
5/9/2023
Evan and Sujit talk to Allison Jones, a Group PM for Azure's AIOps System Team. She gives us insights into how Microsoft uses AI/ML to analyze various signals from Azure to provide actionable...
4/26/2023
You can now customize the right sizing recommendations for virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets to make them more relevant and actionable for your workloads.
4/26/2023
This case study focuses on Contoso, an Azure customer who uses Cassandra DB along with scheduled events to power their highly available internal and customer-facing applications. It will cover a...