Azure Linux Support Team

Support for Linux on Azure

Month: July 2016

Azure PowerShell: How to delete and re-deploy a VM from VHD

by Marco A Bicca // 2 Comments

Before moving further, please make sure you have Azure PowerShell installed: How to install and configure Azure PowerShell For basic information about using Azure Powershell with Resource Manager (ARM), please have a look at: Using Azure PowerShell with Azure Resource Manager In this example, the following variables are being used: Resource Group: ARMGROUP Original VM… Read more

Azure CLI: How to delete and re-deploy a VM from VHD

by Marco A Bicca // 2 Comments

NOTE: Recently the azure cli has changed to the az cli, unless you have the older azure cli tools still installed, you should visit the new and updated post with instructions for the az cli here. Unless you are still using the old azure cli tool, the instructions bellow will not work in the new… Read more

Linux Recovery: Cannot SSH to Linux VM due to FSTAB errors.

by Marco A Bicca // 0 Comments

There are a few cases where a VM might stop booting up properly if the syntax in fstab is not correct and also if a data disk is missing (not attached to the VM) as well as other reasons. Traditionally in Linux you can mount a scsi device by using the following format in fstab:… Read more