Virtual Machines microsoft.compute/virtualmachines Azure Resource type

Virtual Machines - Microsoft Azure Resource type
microsoft.compute/virtualmachines

Resource provider (RP) - Microsoft Compute [Microsoft.Compute]
RP	Microsoft.Compute
RP display name	Microsoft Compute
RP Resource types	Resource types: 140
RP aliases	RP aliases: 2600
RP Azure Policy	Azure Policy definitions: 490 • if: 483 • then.deployment: 183 • then.details: 2 • then.existenceCondition: 0 • then.operations: 0
RP RBAC operations	RP RBAC operations: 289 • RP RBAC operationType action: 94 • RP RBAC operationType delete: 40 • RP RBAC operationType read: 110 • RP RBAC operationType write: 45
RP RBAC Roles & Operation actions	Unique RBAC Roles: 70 • RBAC Roles with action operationType: 37 • RBAC Roles with delete operationType: 24 • RBAC Roles with read operationType: 65 • RBAC Roles with write operationType: 32
RP related 1st party Service Principals	RP related 1st party Service Principals: 10 • Quota Service Core - ARM Client (appId: 3cf468b4-12a0-43cd-aa3f-3f39210d14cf) [ JSON;CSV] • n/a (appId: 51b6191a-b045-44cf-8277-ee37c9fb5a06) • Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Machine Sign-in (Azure Windows VM Sign-In) (appId: 372140e0-b3b7-4226-8ef9-d57986796201) [ JSON;CSV] • Microsoft Azure Linux Virtual Machine Sign-In (Azure Linux VM Sign-In) (appId: ce6ff14a-7fdc-4685-bbe0-f6afdfcfa8e0) [ JSON;CSV] • Compute Usage Provider (appId: a303894e-f1d8-4a37-bf10-67aa654a0596) [ JSON;CSV] • Compute Resource Provider (Managed Disks Resource Provider) (appId: 60e6cd67-9c8c-4951-9b3c-23c25a2169af) [ JSON;CSV] • Compute Recommendation Service (appId: b9a92e36-2cf8-4f4e-bcb3-9d99e00e14ab) [ JSON;CSV] • Compute Artifacts Publishing Service (appId: a8b6bf88-1d1a-4626-b040-9a729ea93c65) [ JSON;CSV] • Azure Regional Service Manager (appId: 5e5e43d4-54da-4211-86a4-c6e7f3715801) [ JSON;CSV] • Azure Compute (appId: 579d9c9d-4c83-4efc-8124-7eba65ed3356) [ JSON;CSV]
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Resource provider (RP) - Microsoft Compute [Microsoft.Compute]

Microsoft.Compute

RP display name

Microsoft Compute

RP Resource types

Resource types: 140

RP aliases

RP aliases: 2600

RP Azure Policy

Azure Policy definitions: 490
• if: 483
• then.deployment: 183
• then.details: 2
• then.existenceCondition: 0
• then.operations: 0

RP RBAC operations

RP RBAC operations: 289
• RP RBAC operationType action: 94
• RP RBAC operationType delete: 40
• RP RBAC operationType read: 110
• RP RBAC operationType write: 45

RP RBAC Roles & Operation actions

Unique RBAC Roles: 70
• RBAC Roles with action operationType: 37
• RBAC Roles with delete operationType: 24
• RBAC Roles with read operationType: 65
• RBAC Roles with write operationType: 32

RP related 1st party Service Principals

RP related 1st party Service Principals: 10

• Quota Service Core - ARM Client (appId: 3cf468b4-12a0-43cd-aa3f-3f39210d14cf) [ JSON;CSV]
• n/a (appId: 51b6191a-b045-44cf-8277-ee37c9fb5a06)
• Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Machine Sign-in (Azure Windows VM Sign-In) (appId: 372140e0-b3b7-4226-8ef9-d57986796201) [ JSON;CSV]
• Microsoft Azure Linux Virtual Machine Sign-In (Azure Linux VM Sign-In) (appId: ce6ff14a-7fdc-4685-bbe0-f6afdfcfa8e0) [ JSON;CSV]
• Compute Usage Provider (appId: a303894e-f1d8-4a37-bf10-67aa654a0596) [ JSON;CSV]
• Compute Resource Provider (Managed Disks Resource Provider) (appId: 60e6cd67-9c8c-4951-9b3c-23c25a2169af) [ JSON;CSV]
• Compute Recommendation Service (appId: b9a92e36-2cf8-4f4e-bcb3-9d99e00e14ab) [ JSON;CSV]
• Compute Artifacts Publishing Service (appId: a8b6bf88-1d1a-4626-b040-9a729ea93c65) [ JSON;CSV]
• Azure Regional Service Manager (appId: 5e5e43d4-54da-4211-86a4-c6e7f3715801) [ JSON;CSV]
• Azure Compute (appId: 579d9c9d-4c83-4efc-8124-7eba65ed3356) [ JSON;CSV]

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RT information

microsoft.compute/virtualmachines

RT display name

Virtual Machines

RT type only
(without RP)

virtualMachines

RT sub- Resource types

sub-Resource types: 13

RT schema

RT schema API versions: 26

• 2024-11-01
• 2024-07-01
• 2024-03-01
• 2023-09-01
• 2023-07-01
• 2023-03-01
• 2022-11-01
• 2022-08-01
• 2022-03-01
• 2021-11-01
• 2021-07-01
• 2021-04-01
• 2021-03-01
• 2020-12-01
• 2020-06-01
• 2019-12-01
• 2019-07-01
• 2019-03-01
• 2018-10-01
• 2018-06-01
• 2018-04-01
• 2017-12-01
• 2017-03-30
• 2016-04-30-preview
• 2016-03-30
• 2015-06-15

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Aliases and Azure Policy

Aliases

aliases: 407

Azure Policy

Azure Policy definitions: 394
• if: 391
• then.deployment: 109
• then.details: 2
• then.existenceCondition: 0
• then.operations: 0

RBAC Operations and Roles & Roles related operation actions

RBAC operations

RBAC operations: 28
• RBAC operationType action: 25
• RBAC operationType delete: 1
• RBAC operationType read: 1
• RBAC operationType write: 1

RBAC Roles & Operation actions

Unique RBAC Roles: 47
• RBAC Roles with action operationType: 6
• RBAC Roles with delete operationType: 12
• RBAC Roles with read operationType: 44
• RBAC Roles with write operationType: 17

Capabilities & Locations

Diagnostic logs

True
log-categories

Azure Resource Diagnostic settings metrics

Diagnostic metrics

True
metrics

Customer-managed key (CMK) [experimental]

True
• Microsoft Learn
• Enforce Encryption with a customer-managed key (CMK) at scale

System-Assigned-Resource-Identity

True

Cross-ResourceGroup-Resource-Move

True

Cross-Subscription-Resource-Move

True

Tags

True

Extension

False

Private-Endpoint

False

Supported Locations for Private-Endpoint

n/a

Non supported Locations for Private-Endpoint

n/a

Location

True

Locations

Locations: 47
australiacentral, australiaeast, australiasoutheast, austriaeast, belgiumcentral, brazilsouth, canadacentral, canadaeast, centralindia, centralus, chilecentral, eastasia, eastus, eastus2, francecentral, germanywestcentral, indonesiacentral, israelcentral, italynorth, japaneast, japanwest, koreacentral, koreasouth, malaysiawest, mexicocentral, newzealandnorth, northcentralus, northeurope, norwayeast, polandcentral, qatarcentral, southafricanorth, southcentralus, southeastasia, southindia, spaincentral, swedencentral, switzerlandnorth, uaenorth, uksouth, ukwest, westcentralus, westeurope, westindia, westus, westus2, westus3

Not locations

Not locations: 54
asia, asiapacific, australia, australiacentral2, brazil, brazilsoutheast, canada, centraluseuap, centralusstage, eastasiastage, eastus2euap, eastus2stage, eastusstage, eastusstg, europe, france, francesouth, germany, germanynorth, global, india, indonesia, israel, italy, japan, jioindiacentral, jioindiawest, korea, malaysia, mexico, newzealand, northcentralusstage, norway, norwaywest, poland, qatar, singapore, southafrica, southafricawest, southcentralusstage, southcentralusstg, southeastasiastage, spain, sweden, switzerland, switzerlandwest, taiwan, uae, uaecentral, uk, unitedstates, unitedstateseuap, westus2stage, westusstage

Assessment tooling

Azure Advisor

Azure Advisor recommendations: 79

Azure Proactive Resilience Library v2 (APRLv2)

Azure Proactive Resilience Library v2 recommendations: 18

• DisasterRecovery [High] Validate VM functionality with a Site Recovery test failover to check performance at target
• DisasterRecovery [Medium] Reserve Compute Capacity in Disaster Recovery Regions
• DisasterRecovery [Medium] Replicate VMs using Azure Site Recovery
• DisasterRecovery [Medium] Backup VMs with Azure Backup service
• HighAvailability [High] Reserve Compute Capacity for critical workloads
• HighAvailability [High] Run production workloads on two or more VMs using VMSS Flex
• HighAvailability [High] Migrate VMs using availability sets to VMSS Flex
• HighAvailability [High] Deploy VMs across Availability Zones
• HighAvailability [High] Use Managed Disks for VM disks
• HighAvailability [Medium] Use maintenance configurations for the Dedicated and/or Isolated VM SKUs
• HighAvailability [Medium] Use Azure Boost VMs for Maintenance sensitive workload VMs
• HighAvailability [Medium] Enable Scheduled Events for Maintenance sensitive workload VMs
• MonitoringAndAlerting [Low] Enable VM Insights
• OtherBestPractices [Low] When AccelNet is enabled, you must manually update the GuestOS NIC driver
• OtherBestPractices [Medium] IP Forwarding should only be enabled for Network Virtual Appliances
• Scalability [High] Don't use A or B-Series VMs for production needing constant full CPU performance
• Scalability [High] Mission Critical Workloads should consider using Premium or Ultra Disks
• Scalability [Medium] Enable Accelerated Networking (AccelNet)

PSRule for Azure

PSRule for Azure rules: 20

• Cost Optimization [Awareness] Multi-tenant Hosting Rights
• Cost Optimization [Awareness] Use Azure Hybrid Benefit
• Cost Optimization [Awareness] Use current VM SKUs
• Cost Optimization [Important] Virtual Machine is stopped but still allocated
• Operational Excellence [Awareness] Use valid VM computer names
• Operational Excellence [Awareness] Use valid VM names
• Operational Excellence [Awareness] Virtual Machine must use standard naming
• Operational Excellence [Important] Migrate to Azure Monitor Agent
• Operational Excellence [Important] Use Azure Monitor Agent
• Operational Excellence [Important] Virtual Machine agent is not provisioned
• Performance Efficiency [Important] Configure host caching
• Performance Efficiency [Important] Configure Premium disks or above
• Reliability [Important] Associate a maintenance configuration
• Reliability [Important] Avoid Basic VM SKU
• Reliability [Important] Distributing traffic
• Reliability [Important] Use Managed Disks
• Reliability [Important] Virtual Machine is not configured for improved SLA
• Security [Important] Automatic updates are enabled
• Security [Important] Use Azure Disk Encryption
• Security [Important] VM password-based authentication is enabled

Azure Quick Review (AZQR)

Azure Quick Review (AZQR) recommendations: 18

• DisasterRecovery [High] Validate VM functionality with a Site Recovery test failover to check performance at target
• DisasterRecovery [Medium] Backup VMs with Azure Backup service
• DisasterRecovery [Medium] Replicate VMs using Azure Site Recovery
• Governance [Low] Virtual Machine Name should comply with naming conventions
• Governance [Low] Virtual Machine should have tags
• HighAvailability [High] Deploy VMs across Availability Zones
• HighAvailability [High] Migrate VMs using availability sets to VMSS Flex
• HighAvailability [High] Reserve Compute Capacity for critical workloads
• HighAvailability [High] Run production workloads on two or more VMs using VMSS Flex
• HighAvailability [High] Use Managed Disks for VM disks
• HighAvailability [High] Virtual Machine should have a SLA
• HighAvailability [Medium] Use maintenance configurations for the Dedicated and/or Isolated VM SKUs
• MonitoringAndAlerting [Low] Enable VM Insights
• OtherBestPractices [Low] When AccelNet is enabled, you must manually update the GuestOS NIC driver
• OtherBestPractices [Medium] IP Forwarding should only be enabled for Network Virtual Appliances
• Scalability [High] Don't use A or B-Series VMs for production needing constant full CPU performance
• Scalability [High] Mission Critical Workloads should consider using Premium or Ultra Disks
• Scalability [Medium] Enable Accelerated Networking (AccelNet)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates

ARM (Azure Resource Manager) template API versions: 27
• latest

• 2025-04-01
• 2024-11-01
• 2024-07-01
• 2024-03-01
• 2023-09-01
• 2023-07-01
• 2023-03-01
• 2022-11-01
• 2022-08-01
• 2022-03-01
• 2021-11-01
• 2021-07-01
• 2021-04-01
• 2021-03-01
• 2020-12-01
• 2020-06-01
• 2019-12-01
• 2019-07-01
• 2019-03-01
• 2018-10-01
• 2018-06-01
• 2018-04-01
• 2017-12-01
• 2017-03-30
• 2016-04-30-preview
• 2016-03-30
• 2015-06-15

Bicep templates

Bicep template API versions: 27
• latest

Terraform provider

Terraform providers: 6
• linux_virtual_machine
• virtual_machine
• virtual_machine_data_disk_attachment
• virtual_machine_gallery_application_assignment
• virtual_machine_implicit_data_disk_from_source
• windows_virtual_machine

AzAPI Terraform templates

AzAPI Terraform template API versions: 27
• latest

Pulumi provider

Pulumi providers: 1
• compute/virtualmachine

OpenTofu provider

OpenTofu TF providers: 6
• linux_virtual_machine
• virtual_machine
• virtual_machine_data_disk_attachment
• virtual_machine_gallery_application_assignment
• virtual_machine_implicit_data_disk_from_source
• windows_virtual_machine

Azure Verified Modules (AVM) Bicep

Virtual Machine

Azure Verified Modules (AVM) Terraform

• GitHub: Virtual Machine
• Terraform registry: Virtual Machine

REST-API (Representational State Transfer - Application Programming Interface)

REST-API versions

REST-API versions: 29

REST-API version default

2023-09-01

API profiles

API profiles: 6
• 2020-06-01
• 2017-12-01;2020-09-01-hybrid
• 2017-12-01;2019-03-01-hybrid
• 2017-03-30;2018-06-01-profile
• 2017-03-09-profile
• 2016-03-30;2018-03-01-hybrid

Resource naming

Azure Naming Tool

The Azure Naming Tool was created to help administrators define and manage their naming conventions, while providing a simple interface for users to generate a compliant name.

Resource naming details

[
  {
    "property": "Linux",
    "ShortName": "vm",
    "scope": "resource group",
    "lengthMin": "1",
    "lengthMax": "64",
    "validText": "",
    "invalidText": "Backslash, slash, double quote, single quote, square brackets, colon, pipe, angle brackets, plus sign, equals sign, semi-colon, comma, question mark, asterisk, at sign, ampersand, and underscore. Can't end with period or hyphen.",
    "invalidCharacters": "\\/\\'[]:|<>+=;,?*@&_\"",
    "invalidCharactersStart": "",
    "invalidCharactersEnd": ".-",
    "invalidCharactersConsecutive": "",
    "regx": "^(?!.*[.]$)(?!.*-$)[^\\/\\[\\]:|<>\\+=;,\\?@&_\\*]{1,64}$",
    "staticValues": ""
  },
  {
    "property": "Windows",
    "ShortName": "vm",
    "scope": "resource group",
    "lengthMin": "1",
    "lengthMax": "15",
    "validText": "",
    "invalidText": "Backslash, slash, double quote, single quote, square brackets, colon, pipe, angle brackets, plus sign, equals sign, semi-colon, comma, question mark, asterisk, at sign, ampersand, and underscore. Can't include space or period. Can't end with hyphen.",
    "invalidCharacters": "/\\'[]:|<>+=;,?*@&_ .\"",
    "invalidCharactersStart": "",
    "invalidCharactersEnd": "-",
    "invalidCharactersConsecutive": "",
    "regx": "^(?!.*-$)[^\\/\\[\\]:|<>\\+=;,\\?@&_\\. \\*]{1,15}$",
    "staticValues": ""
  }
]

Virtual Machines - Microsoft Azure Resource typemicrosoft.compute/virtualmachines

Virtual Machines - Microsoft Azure Resource type
microsoft.compute/virtualmachines