Can not create Azure VM - no SKU available

abiral 6

Hello ,

I am not able to create VM on westus via Azure CLI. I get following error, indicating the SKU is not available.

When I try to list the SKUs available in the region, no VMs are available in that region

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Bjoern Peters 8,881 Reputation points

2022-09-21T07:33:15.28+00:00

Yes, that might happen from time to time. Even Microsoft experiences some trouble getting the hardware right in time.

Your error message states it correctly; actually, Microsoft seems to have some problems with resources available in westus. And then it depends on your subscription. Microsoft will start to restrict free subscriptions to deploy any resources, then continue with students, then with sponsored subscriptions to provide resources for those fully paying customers.

What kind of subscription are you using to deploy this VM? Is it a free or student subscription? Or a Pay-as-you-go subscription?

Maybe try - as suggested - in a different region or wait one day.
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abiral 6 Reputation points

2022-09-21T18:29:54.313+00:00

Hello @Bjoern Peters ,

Thank you for your response. This is a Pay-as-you-go subscription. Sadly I need to deploy on westus and I have been getting the same error since few days.

Is there anything that can be done here ?

Regards,

Luke Murray 11,091 Reputation points MVP

2022-09-22T21:38:55.813+00:00

Take a look at this article I wrote - the same rules apply.

https://luke.geek.nz/azure/microsoft-azure-zonalallocationfailed/

Changing the Virtual Machine version - could be a quick fix.

abiral 6 Reputation points

2022-09-24T05:17:50.663+00:00

Thank you for your response.

however, no other virtual machine are available in the region I need to create VM on.

Luke Murray 11,091 Reputation points MVP

2022-09-24T06:27:56.723+00:00

You may need to open a support ticket: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/create-ticket/

Before you do it - just double check your quota contains enough cores of the SKU size you need in your region: https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/quotas/regional-quota-requests#request-an-increase-for-regional-vcpu-quotas

Francis Friel 0 Reputation points

2024-10-25T13:37:05.0166667+00:00

Other than contacting Microsoft support, no. I'm having a similar issue.

Prrudram-MSFT 25,156 Reputation points

2024-11-06T19:21:22.0433333+00:00

Hello abiral, Francis Friel,

Are you still facing this issue? Did you check if you have the quota allocated for B family VMs or "Standard_B1ls2" in your subscription under Usage + quotas?

B-family VMs are best suited for workloads that do not require constant full CPU performance. Mostly the The 'B' family of VM size series are one of Azure's general purpose VM instances and some of the smaller size SKUs are not allocated by default. If there is no quota available in the specific region you need to raise a request with azure subscription team or use another region as suggested by Luke.

Best way to check the allocated VM SKUs and quotas, navigate to Subscription->Usage + quotas, set the required region filters and see the available VM SKUs
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