Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) allow creating and managing let you create and manage a group of load-balanced VMs. Azure consumers who that deliver services requiring high availability and large at scale, leverage scale sets to ensure application resiliency.
Using flexible orchestration mode, customers can add standard Azure VMs to Azure VM Scale Sets. Microsoft Azure reports such machines as a regular virtual instance and a scale set-specific instance, leading to creating two CI records in Cloudaware. which leads to the creation of two instance records in the CMDB. As a result, Cloudaware users see duplicates in the section 'Related ObjectObjects' of a selected Azure VM Scale Set:
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These fields help to identify whether the VM instances that VMs were originally created as a part of the Azure VM Scale Set:
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If these fields are empty, it means that a VM virtual machine was initially created as a standard one and then added to a scale set.
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