CODEWITHSUNDEEP
azure
dc10
dc10

Reputation: 2208

How to get a list of available vm sizes in an azure location

I want to deploy a VM in microsoft's azure with a new size. Usually I use a json template for the vm with size 'Standard_DS3' Now I would like to have another one with size a3 'A3', but this causes an error

statusMessage:{"error":{"code":"InvalidParameter","target":"vmSize","message":"The value of parameter vmSize is invalid."}}

So I was wondering where can I find valid vm sizes for deployments in a location and the correct name for the deployment with a template file?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 30785

Answers (4)

Vassili Altynikov
Vassili Altynikov

Reputation: 2059

Since you mentioned json templates in your question then I assume that you are using Azure Resource Manager to provision resources. If that's the case, you can use the following REST API endpoint to list all available virtual machine sizes in a region.

https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/locations/{location}/vmSizes?api-version={api-version}

This information is accessible using Azure CLI, i.e.: az vm list-sizes --location "eastus"

You can also reference Microsoft documentation to see the list of virtual machine sizes. Sounds like you need to use the "Large" size in your template to provision an A3 Standard VM.

Upvotes: 9

Darkentik
Darkentik

Reputation: 91

This isn´t always true. I´ve got into a situation where this command gives me a VM size that wasn´t truely avalaible for my location. This is a known issue of the Azure CLI.

Here is the statement from Azure support:

Cause: It is known that the command az vm list-sizes can expose sizes that are actually unavailable and we are working on that situation.

Resolution: The best option is to mitigate this is to cross check the information provided by that query with the restrictions that you have in the subscription that can be analyzed by the command az vm list-skus. For your scenario, you can see the SKU restrictions in West Europe by using the following:

az vm list-skus --location WestEurope --output table

Upvotes: 9

avr
avr

Reputation: 4893

One can list all vm-sizes available in specific location(e.g westus) from Azure CLI 2.0 using following command

az vm list-sizes --location "westus"

Upvotes: 17

Ivan G.
Ivan G.

Reputation: 5225

You can use Get-AzureRmVMSize commandlet in PowerShell. This doesn't change too often and I have a .NET library which contains a snapshot of those https://github.com/aloneguid/microsoft-azure-strongtyped

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions