Virtual Machines (IaaS)

Retrieve vmId of Virtual Machine

Sometimes retrieving the unique ID of a virtual machine in Resource Manager can be usefull. The following snippet will grab the vmid property.

$vm = Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName 'rg' -Name 'vm'
$vmResource = Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceName $vm.Name -ResourceGroupName $vm.ResourceGroupName -ResourceType 'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines'
$vmId = $vmResource.Properties.VmId

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$vm = Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName 'rg' -Name 'vm'

$vmResource = Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceName $vm.Name -ResourceGroupName $vm.ResourceGroupName -ResourceType 'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines'

$vmId = $vmResource.Properties.VmId

October 31, 2015

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Azure VM Agent & Extensions Deep Dive – Part 3

The aim of this series is to detail what happens “under the hood” when the Azure VM Agent and VM Extensions are installed and how they operate. It will also cover any technical requirements and considerations and troubleshooting tips when working with the VM Agent and Extensions. In Part 1 we looked at the options […]

September 14, 2015

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Azure VM Agent & Extensions Deep Dive – Part 2

The aim of this series is to detail what happens “under the hood” when the Azure VM Agent and VM Extensions are installed and how they operate. It will also cover any technical requirements and considerations and troubleshooting tips when working with the VM Agent and Extensions. In Part 1 we looked at the options […]

September 13, 2015

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Azure VM Agent & Extensions Deep Dive – Part 1

The aim of this series is to detail what happens “under the hood” when the Azure VM Agent (Guest Agent) and VM Extensions are installed and how they operate. It will also cover any technical requirements and considerations and troubleshooting tips when working with the VM Agent and Extensions. From what I have seen some of this information […]

September 12, 2015

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SAP Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension

The SAP Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension allows for collecting diagnostic data including OS and Application performance counters from Azure VMs running SAP workloads. The SAP Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension builds on top of the Azure Diagnostic extension and we can see it in the list of available extensions.

Get-AzureVMAvailableExtension | fl extensionname,publisher,description
ExtensionName : AzureCATExtensionHandler
Publisher : Microsoft.AzureCAT.AzureEnhancedMonitoring
Description : Extension to enable SAP Host Monitoring

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Get-AzureVMAvailableExtension | fl extensionname,publisher,description

ExtensionName : AzureCATExtensionHandler

Publisher : Microsoft.AzureCAT.AzureEnhancedMonitoring

Description : Extension to enable SAP Host Monitoring

Prerequisites: Install the latest version of […]

September 10, 2015

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