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This article explains how to differentiate Azure VMs and Azure VM Scale Set instances in Cloudaware CMDB.

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) allow creating and managing a group users to create and manage groups of load-balanced virtual machines (VMs. Azure consumers who deliver services requiring ). Organizations that require high availability and large at scale leverage utilize scale sets to ensure application resiliency.

Using With the flexible orchestration mode, customers can add standard Azure VMs to Azure VM Scale Sets. However, Microsoft Azure reports such these machines both as a regular virtual instance instances and a as scale set-specific instance, leading to creating two CI records in Cloudaware. Cloudaware users instances, resulting in duplicate instance records in the CMDB. As a result, users may see duplicates in the section 'Related ObjectObjects' section of a selected Azure VM Scale Set:.

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Azure e VM Scale Set Instance

To differentiate virtual machines machine types for reporting, address refer to the following fields:

  • VM Scale Set

  • VM Scale Set ID

These fields help to identify the VM instances that were indicate whether a virtual machine was originally created as part of the an Azure VM Scale Set:.

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If these the VM Scale Set fields are empty, it means that a VM the virtual machine was initially created as a standard one Azure VM and then later added to a scale set.