Performing manual upgrades on Virtual Machine Scale Sets (Preview)

Note

Manual upgrade policy for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Uniform Orchestration is in general availability (GA).

Manual upgrade policy for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration is currently in preview. Previews are made available to you on the condition that you agree to the supplemental terms of use. Some aspects of these features may change prior to general availability (GA).

If you have the upgrade policy set to manual, any changes made to the scale set model won't be applied automatically. You need to manually trigger upgrades on each individual virtual machine. The manual upgrade functionality updates the selected instances according to the virtual machine configuration set in the scale set profile.

Select the Virtual Machine Scale Set you want to perform instance upgrades on. In the menu under Settings, select Instances and select the instances you want to upgrade. Once selected, click the Upgrade option.

Screenshot showing how to perform manual upgrades using the Azure portal.

Next steps

You can also perform common management tasks on Virtual Machine Scale Sets using the Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell.