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Copper Contributor

Jun 23, 2017

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Cannot select existing Availability Set when creating a new VM

Hello, I have an MSDN subscription and am starting to learn Azure from portal.azure.com I create the following items in no particular order 1) Virtual Network 2) Public IP Address 3) Stora...

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Kent Gaardmand
Jun 24, 2017
The lack of seeing resource groups from the "all resources" is by design.
Resource groups are just logical containers, so the serve no purpose in that view.

With regards to you availability set, try and create a new one prior to clicking create copy the Resource template so i can see what you would have created.

You may have chosen to create a classic Availability set, it gives you classic or aligned "in reality its classic vs. ARM"

AUser ZUser

Copper Contributor

Jun 24, 2017

Hello Kent

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my question.

I wonder if I am experiancing somesort of bug but I get the same result in Windows Edge Brower and Internet Explorer

I am using Windows 10 version 10.0.14393 and build 14393

I have one Resource Group and all my other resources are part of this Resource Group (based in West UK)

I left it 24 hours but when I go to create a VM it does not show my existing Availability Group is being available (it does not show it at all) and therefore I have the option of None or to create a New one.

Also I notice when I am on my Azure Portal home page under the 'All Resources' & ' All Subscriptions' tile it does not show my ResourceGroup (but it does show the other items). However if I click on ResourceGroups on the leaf most menu/tile it does show my ResourceGroup.

Therefore I now have two issues the main one being I cannot select a current AvailabilityGroup when building my first VM and also I do not see my Resource Group under 'All Resources'

Any idea, what is going on here please? can Microsoft offer an explanation?

Thanks

__AUser

Kent Gaardmand

Iron Contributor

Jun 24, 2017

The lack of seeing resource groups from the "all resources" is by design.

Resource groups are just logical containers, so the serve no purpose in that view.

With regards to you availability set, try and create a new one prior to clicking create copy the Resource template so i can see what you would have created.

You may have chosen to create a classic Availability set, it gives you classic or aligned "in reality its classic vs. ARM"

AUser ZUser
Copper Contributor
Jun 24, 2017
Hello Kent,

Thanks again for taking the time out of your day to reply.

Thanks for clearing up the point with regard to Resource Groups and the 'All Resources' view.

With regard to the Availability Set I may of inadvertently created a classic one (not sure) I have deleted now, but the next time I create one I will make sure I used managed

All my questions answered in this post now.

Thanks
__AUser
- steveburkettnz
  Brass Contributor
  Nov 17, 2017
  It might be down to the portal layout. If your VM's are not using managed disks, and you've therefore created the availability set for non-managed disks, then when you come in to add your second VM you need to first change the 'Storage - Use managed disks' option to No BEFORE you go in to the Availability set picker.
  
  If not, it'll only show the Availability Sets which are set to use Managed Disks, since that's the default option on the VM Settings blade. Very confusing since it looks like your Availability Set has just vanished.
  
  If they positioned the Storage section before the High Availability section this wouldn't be an issue.