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Virtual Machine Scale Sets - Microsoft Azure Resource type
microsoft.compute/virtualmachinescalesets

Azure Resource Provider Resource provider (RP) - Microsoft Compute [Microsoft.Compute]
RP Microsoft.Compute
RP display name Microsoft Compute
Azure Resource Type
RP Resource types
Resource types: 132
Azure Policy Alias
RP aliases
RP aliases: 2161
Azure Policy definition
RP Azure Policy
Azure Policy definitions: 487
if: 480
then.deployment: 182
then.details: 2
then.existenceCondition: 0
then.operations: 0
Azure RBAC Role Based Access Control
RP RBAC operations
RP RBAC operations: 279
RP RBAC operationType action: 94
RP RBAC operationType delete: 37
RP RBAC operationType read: 106
RP RBAC operationType write: 42
Azure RBAC Role definition
RP RBAC Roles & Operation actions
Unique RBAC Roles: 64
RBAC Roles with action operationType: 34
RBAC Roles with delete operationType: 22
RBAC Roles with read operationType: 59
RBAC Roles with write operationType: 30
Azure Application
RP related 1st party Service Principals
RP related 1st party Service Principals: 9
• 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]
• Marketplace Caps API (appId: 184909ca-69f1-4368-a6a7-c558ee6eb0bd) [ 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]
All Azure RPs Microsoft Learn
AzResourceTypesAdvertizer (Microsoft only)
Azure Resource Type Resource type (RT) - Virtual Machine Scale Sets [microsoft.compute/virtualmachinescalesets]
RT information
RT microsoft.compute/virtualmachinescalesets
RT display name Virtual Machine Scale Sets
RT type only
(without RP)
virtualMachineScaleSets
RT sub- Resource types sub-Resource types: 22
RT schema RT schema API versions: 26
All Microsoft Azure RTs AzResourceTypesAdvertizer
Aliases and Azure Policy
Azure Policy Alias
Aliases
aliases: 378
Azure Policy definition
Azure Policy
Azure Policy definitions: 77
if: 77
then.deployment: 5
then.details: 0
then.existenceCondition: 0
then.operations: 0
RBAC Operations and Roles & Roles related operation actions
Azure RBAC Role Based Access Control
RBAC operations
RBAC operations: 20
RBAC operationType action: 17
RBAC operationType delete: 1
RBAC operationType read: 1
RBAC operationType write: 1
Azure RBAC Role definition
RBAC Roles & Operation actions
Unique RBAC Roles: 24
RBAC Roles with action operationType: 5
RBAC Roles with delete operationType: 6
RBAC Roles with read operationType: 24
RBAC Roles with write operationType: 7
Capabilities & Locations
Azure Resource Diagnostic settings logs
Diagnostic logs
False
Azure Resource Diagnostic settings metrics
Diagnostic metrics
True
metrics
Azure Customer-managed key
Customer-managed key (CMK) [experimental]
True
Microsoft Learn
Enforce Encryption with a customer-managed key (CMK) at scale
Azure Managed identity
System-Assigned-Resource-Identity
True
Azure Resource Mover
Cross-ResourceGroup-Resource-Move
True
Azure Resource Mover
Cross-Subscription-Resource-Move
True
Azure Resource Tags
Tags
True
Azure Extension
Extension
False
Azure Private Endpoint
Private-Endpoint
False
Azure Private Endpoint location Azure Private Endpoint location
Supported Locations for Private-Endpoint
n/a
Non supported Locations for Private-Endpoint n/a
Azure location
Location
True
Azure Resource type location Azure Resource type location
Locations
Locations: 43
australiacentral, australiaeast, australiasoutheast, brazilsouth, canadacentral, canadaeast, centralindia, centralus, eastasia, eastus, eastus2, francecentral, germanywestcentral, indonesiacentral, israelcentral, italynorth, japaneast, japanwest, koreacentral, koreasouth, 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, brazilus, canada, centraluseuap, centralusstage, eastasiastage, eastus2euap, eastus2stage, eastusstage, eastusstg, europe, france, francesouth, germany, germanynorth, global, india, indonesia, israel, italy, japan, jioindiacentral, jioindiawest, korea, 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
Azure Advisor recommendations: 9
Azure Proactive Resilience Library v2 (APRLv2)
Azure Proactive Resilience Library v2 (APRLv2)
Azure Proactive Resilience Library v2 recommendations: 8
PSRule for Azure
PSRule for Azure
PSRule for Azure rules: 10
Operational Excellence [Awareness] Use valid VMSS computer names
Operational Excellence [Awareness] Use valid VMSS names
Operational Excellence [Important] Migrate to Azure Monitor Agent
Operational Excellence [Important] Use Azure Monitor Agent
Reliability [Important] Automatic instance repairs
Reliability [Important] Deploy virtual machine scale set instances using availability zones
Reliability [Important] Deploy virtual machine scale set instances using best-effort zone balance
Security [Critical] Public IPs attached
Security [Important] Securely pass secrets to Custom Script Extensions for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Security [Important] VMSS password-based authentication is enabled
Azure Quick Review (AZQR)
Azure Quick Review (AZQR)
Azure Quick Review (AZQR) recommendations: 11
Governance [Low] Virtual Machine Scale Set Name should comply with naming conventions
Governance [Low] Virtual Machine Scale Set should have tags
HighAvailability [High] Deploy VMSS across availability zones with VMSS Flex
HighAvailability [High] Disable Force strictly even balance across zones to avoid scale in and out fail attempts
HighAvailability [High] Enable Automatic Repair Policy on Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
HighAvailability [High] Virtual Machine should have a SLA
MonitoringAndAlerting [Medium] Enable Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set Application Health Monitoring
OtherBestPractices [Low] Set Patch orchestration options to Azure-orchestrated
Scalability [High] Configure VMSS Autoscale to custom and configure the scaling metrics
Scalability [Low] Enable Predictive autoscale and configure at least for Forecast Only
Scalability [Medium] Deploy VMSS with Flex orchestration mode instead of Uniform
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
ARM (Azure Resource Manager)
ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates
ARM (Azure Resource Manager) template API versions: 26
latest
Azure Bicep
Bicep templates
Bicep template API versions: 26
latest
Terraform
Terraform provider
Terraform providers: 4
linux_virtual_machine_scale_set
orchestrated_virtual_machine_scale_set
virtual_machine_scale_set
windows_virtual_machine_scale_set
AzAPI Terraform
AzAPI Terraform templates
AzAPI Terraform template API versions: 26
latest
Pulumi
Pulumi provider
Pulumi providers: 1
compute/virtualmachinescaleset
OpenTofu
OpenTofu provider
OpenTofu TF providers: 4
linux_virtual_machine_scale_set
orchestrated_virtual_machine_scale_set
virtual_machine_scale_set
windows_virtual_machine_scale_set
Azure Verified Modules (AVM) Bicep Azure Verified Modules (AVM) Bicep
Azure Verified Modules (AVM) Bicep
Virtual Machine Scale Set
Azure Verified Modules (AVM) Terraform Azure Verified Modules (AVM) Terraform
Azure Verified Modules (AVM) Terraform
• GitHub: Virtual Machine Scale Set
• Terraform registry: Virtual Machine Scale Set
REST-API (Representational State Transfer - Application Programming Interface)
REST-API versions REST-API versions: 29
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
2017-10-30-preview
2017-03-30
2016-08-30
2016-04-30-preview
2016-03-30
2015-06-15
2015-05-01-preview
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
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": "vmss",
    "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, and ampersand. Can't use space. Can't start with underscore.  Can't end with period or hyphen.",
    "invalidCharacters": "/\"'[]:|<>+=;,?*@& ",
    "invalidCharactersStart": "_",
    "invalidCharactersEnd": ".-",
    "invalidCharactersConsecutive": "",
    "regx": "^(?!_.*$)(?!.*[-\\.]$)[^\\/\\[\\]:|<>\\+=;,\\?@& \\*]{1,64}$",
    "staticValues": ""
  },
  {
    "property": "Windows",
    "ShortName": "vmss",
    "scope": "resource group",
    "lengthMin": "1",
    "lengthMax": "15",
    "validText": "",
    "invalidText": "Backslash, slash, double quote, single quote, square brackets, colon, pipe, angle brackets, plus sign, equals sign, semi-colon, comma, question mark, asterisk, at sign, and ampersand. Can't use space. Can't start with underscore.  Can't end with period or hyphen.",
    "invalidCharacters": "/\"'[]:|<>+=;,?*@& ",
    "invalidCharactersStart": "_",
    "invalidCharactersEnd": ".-",
    "invalidCharactersConsecutive": "",
    "regx": "^(?!_.*$)(?!.*[-.]$)[^\"\\/\\[\\]:|<>\\+=;,\\?@& \\*]{1,15}$",
    "staticValues": ""
  }
]