Azure SkuNotAvailable during Terraform apply

March 16, 2018March 8, 2018 Jeff Miles Azure, Code

I ran into some issues when actually attempting to apply my first Terraform template, specifically errors related to the location I had chosen:

* azurerm_virtual_machine.test: compute.VirtualMachinesClient#CreateOrUpdate:
Failure sending request: StatusCode=409 -- 
Original Error: failed request: autorest/azure: Service returned an error. 
Status=&lt;nil&gt; Code="SkuNotAvailable" 
Message="The requested size for resource '/subscriptions/f745d13d/resourceGroups/HelloWorld/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/helloworld' is currently not available in location 'WestUS' zones '' for subscription 'f745d13d'. 
Please try another size or deploy to a different location or zones. 
See https://aka.ms/azureskunotavailable for details."

This didn’t make much sense to me, because I was using a very normal VM size (like Standard_A2 or something) and it was definitely available in WestUS.

The key to solving was when I use the Azure Shell (powershell) to run this:

Get-AzureRmComputeResourceSku | where {$_.Locations.Contains("WestUS")}

The output of this command:

Turns out for my Subscription (Visual Studio Enterprise – MPN), WestUS is restricted to very few VM sizes (note the “NotAvailableForSubscription” items). When I target WestUS2 or EastUS, then there’s quite a bit more choice.

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Imran Bijapuri says:

July 25, 2018 at 9:00 am

Do you know the azure cli equivalent of the command

Get-AzureRmComputeResourceSku | where {$_.Locations.Contains(“WestUS”)}

I have already tried
az vm list-skus but it doesn’t ResourceType Locations —————- availabilitySets uksouth availabilitySets uksouth disks uksouth disks uksouth snapshots uksouth snapshots uksouth virtualMachines uksouth virtualMachines uksouth virtualMachines uksouth virtualMachines uksouth virtualMachines uksouth virtualMachines uksouth virtualMachines uksouth virtualMachines uksouth virtualMachines uksouth virtualMachines uksouth –output table –location uksouth
return the restrictions. This is the output
Name Capabilities Tier Size
———– ———————- ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– ——– ————-
Classic MaximumPlatformFaultDomainCount=3
Aligned MaximumPlatformFaultDomainCount=2
Standard_LRS Standard
Premium_LRS Premium
Standard_LRS Standard
Premium_LRS Premium
Standard_B1ms [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=4096’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=1’, ‘MemoryGB=2’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=2’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=False’, ‘PremiumIO=True’] Standard B1ms
Standard_B1s [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=2048’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=1’, ‘MemoryGB=1’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=2’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=False’, ‘PremiumIO=True’] Standard B1s
Standard_B2ms [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=16384’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=2’, ‘MemoryGB=8’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=4’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=False’, ‘PremiumIO=True’] Standard B2ms
Standard_B2s [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=8192’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=2’, ‘MemoryGB=4’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=4’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=False’, ‘PremiumIO=True’] Standard B2s
Standard_B4ms [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=32768’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=4’, ‘MemoryGB=16’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=8’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=False’, ‘PremiumIO=True’] Standard B4ms
Standard_B8ms [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=65536’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=8’, ‘MemoryGB=32’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=16’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=False’, ‘PremiumIO=True’] Standard B8ms
Standard_A0 [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=20480’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=1’, ‘MemoryGB=0.75’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=1’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=False’, ‘PremiumIO=False’] Standard A0
Standard_A1 [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=71680’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=1’, ‘MemoryGB=1.75’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=2’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=True’, ‘PremiumIO=False’] Standard A1
Standard_A2 [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=138240’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=2’, ‘MemoryGB=3.5’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=4’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=True’, ‘PremiumIO=False’] Standard A2
Standard_A3 [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=291840’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=4’, ‘MemoryGB=7’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=8’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=True’, ‘PremiumIO=False’] Standard A3

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1. Jeff Miles says:
  
  August 8, 2018 at 4:06 pm
  
  Imran, can you try with this syntax:
  
  az vm list-skus --location uksouth --output table
  
  I ran this from the Azure Shell, and it produced output for me like this (East US):
  virtualMachines eastus Standard_DS15_v2 [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=286720’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=20’, ‘MemoryGB=140’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=64’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=True’, ‘PremiumIO=True’] Standard DS15_v2 None
  
  virtualMachines eastus Standard_DS2_v2_Promo [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=14336’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=2’, ‘MemoryGB=7’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=8’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=False’, ‘PremiumIO=True’] Standard DS2_v2_Promo NotAvailableForSubscription
  
  virtualMachines eastus Standard_DS3_v2_Promo [‘MaxResourceVolumeMB=28672’, ‘OSVhdSizeMB=1047552’, ‘vCPUs=4’, ‘MemoryGB=14’, ‘MaxDataDiskCount=16’, ‘LowPriorityCapable=False’, ‘PremiumIO=True’] Standard DS3_v2_Promo NotAvailableForSubscription
  
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