Failed to start virtual machine
Two of my VMs are down today without any alert in the portal of Windows Azure. I log into the portal and tried to restart these two VMs (one is Centos and other one is Windows 2008). It was failed and...
View ArticleReserved IP address and Static Internal IP address.
Hello,I would like to ask if there is any possibility of making the both, public and Private IPs, static ? I have assigned Reserved IP to a VM and the public IP issue is resolved. I can assign the VM...
View ArticleUpcoming Planned Maintenance September 12-14
Just got notification on a planned maintenance event affecting multiple Azure data centers next weekend. What is the class of work being performed in this event?I am tasked with informing our IT...
View ArticleMaintenance on 8/22-8/23 in a set of regions
We have maintenance upcoming for Virtual Machines and Cloud Services in a few select regions coming up on 8/22 and 8/23.Check out the announcement here for more details: AnnouncementSpecifically, this...
View ArticleEnd Points not working
I can create and edit endpoints, but i can't forward any custom ports... I made a second account, it didn't work on that one either...
View Articlebigger attached storage
My computer chess site has some rather steep storage needs, more than the usual 1023MB that are make available to a general VMI need 2048MB or more, not all the time but to be able to use archive...
View ArticleWhy WindowsAzureGuestAgent.exe is consuming memory
Hi,I have a small VM with 1.75 memory, and WindowsAzureGuestAgent.exe is taking 361MB of memory.That's a big percent relative to the overall memory.How can i fix this? it wasn't like this the last time...
View ArticleBad CPU performance, Basic A4
Hello,I have created Basic A4 VM(8cores, 14GB RAM), but CPU performance is really slow. According to system info, VM is powered by Xeon E5-2660. I have tried to run Cinebench 11.5 and CPU score is 2.6...
View ArticleLog on to a Virtual Machine Running Linux
Dear All,I just created a VM in Azure with Linux Distro.I am using PuTTY to connect to the VM. I keep getting access denied.I followed the info in the website...
View ArticleConfiguration required for SQL Server 2014 Always On
Hi,We are planning to setup Always On on SQL Server 2014 Enterprise. We want to setup using 2 VM's (A6). What are the prerequisites to the setup the same. Do we need a witness server for the same.
View ArticleWindows Azure is routing my brazilian VM through MIAMI servers
We've recently created a new VM in Azure's São Paulo datacenter so that latency would be lower than our East US VM. The problem is that a tracert shows the traffic being routed trough a MIAMI server!!!...
View ArticleServer Reboots happend on 6th September in West Europe Datacenter (no...
Hi, on Saturday 6th September at 12 UTC we had reboots of Virtual Machines. All Servers of two cloud services were rebooted at the same time without considering any configured Availability Group.Could...
View ArticleNo Connectivity of Virtual Network
Hi,I'm having two servers setup in one cloud service connected to the same virtual network. from Server A to Server B connectivity is working properly fine, but from Server B to Server A I can only...
View ArticleThe previous system shutdown at 3:35:00 PM on 8/7/2014 was unexpected.
Hello,We have an understandably upset customer whose server restarted without warning yesterday afternoon. Please can someone help me provide an explanation as to why this happened?Thank you.
View ArticleInternal Load Balancing, virtual servers and server health probe
Does Internal load balancer supports probe for health of server instances and capability to take unhealthy server instances out of rotation, like Load Balancer does (tpc or http probe)? Thx!
View Articleunable to open port 443
telnet 168.63.241.248 443 Trying 168.63.241.248... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused telnet 168.63.241.248 80 1 ↵ Trying...
View ArticleReceiving Failed to Create Error when trying to create a SharePoint Farm
This past weekend I have attempted to create SharePoint Server Farms on the new Azure portal with the new gallery option. Every time I try to create a farm with the MSDN Billing account, it fails.How...
View ArticleAugust Azure Guru - Festival of the Awesome Azure
It's here at last!The August round of the TechNet Technical Guru Competition!The quality and quantity of entries has been beyond our wildest expectations lately, with epic posts and useful snippets...
View Article"Ghost" (Hidden) Network Adapters
I have noticed that every time a VM is shout down and dealocate, as soon as it start up again a new network adapter is created with a # at the end of its name.Some times our VM had connectivity issues...
View ArticleAzure Virtual Machine - SQL, SSIS Out of memory Exception
Hi,I have created a Vitual Machine In Azure with SQL 2014 and setup some Databases in that. Then I Installed Visual Studio Business Intelligence 2012 and Created an Integration Service where It will...
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