Add a standalone vm on a availability set

Question

Hello,

I would like to know if , it is possible to add an existing standalone virtual machine to an availability set, if so how can I added it.Thank you

Answer 1

Hi Cinthia,

No, it is not possible to add an existing VM to an availability set since you can only do that when it is first created. There is a sample script that shows how to delete/recreate a VM to make it part of availability set.

Change the availability set for a VM by using Azure PowerShell

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/change-availability-set

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-TP