Greetings. I've been trying to deploy some variation of an N-series Spot VM over the past couple or three days. However, I can never get past the validation stage. I've tried doing so using a VM Scale Set via an ARM template as well as just a single VM via the portal. As this link suggests, I've tried using the az vm list-skus --location eastus2 --size Standard_N --output table command to check availability. I see that there are some available:
ResourceType Locations Name Zones Restrictions
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virtualMachines eastus2 Standard_NV6s_v2 3 None
virtualMachines eastus2 Standard_NV12s_v2 3 None
virtualMachines eastus2 Standard_NV24s_v2 3 None
virtualMachines eastus2 Standard_NV12s_v3 3 None
virtualMachines eastus2 Standard_NV24s_v3 3 None
virtualMachines eastus2 Standard_NV48s_v3 3 None
I've tried different combinations of VM sizes and regions. The constants that I can see are:
- I'm always requesting a spot VM
- I'm always using the same subscription (Visual Studio Enterprise)
I haven't been able to find any documentation that shows any conflicts with what I'm trying to do. However, I always get this error:
{
"code": "InvalidTemplateDeployment",
"message": "The template deployment failed with error: 'The resource with id: '/subscriptions/<subscriptionid>/resourceGroups/FoldingAtHomeRG/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/foldingAtHomeWorker' failed validation with message: 'The requested size for resource '/subscriptions/<subscriptionid>/resourceGroups/FoldingAtHomeRG/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/foldingAtHomeWorker' is currently not available in location 'eastus2' zones '3' for subscription '<subscriptionid>'. Please try another size or deploy to a different location or zones. See https://aka.ms/azureskunotavailable for details.'.'." }
Anyone seen this before or have any advice to offer? Any would be appreciated. Thanks.
Brian