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Using flexible orchestration mode, customers can add standard Azure VMs to Azure VM Scale Sets. Microsoft Azure reports those such machines as both Azure VM and Azure VMSS instance which . In Cloudaware CMDB, those machines may be displayed as duplicates in related objects a regular virtual instance and a scale set-specific instance, leading to creating two CI records in Cloudaware. Cloudaware users see duplicates in the section 'Related Object' of a selected Azure VM Scale Set:
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VM Scale Set
VM Scale Set ID
The These fields help to identify the VM instances that were originally created as part of the Azure scale setVM Scale Set:
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If these fields are empty, it means that a VM was initially created as a standard one and then added to a scale set.
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