Extending the number of cpu cores in Azure
As default,
every customer in Azure gets twenty CPU cores.
Creating new computers will
quickly need more than this. My experience is that most of the small computers
still needs to be run as “Medium” you will then use two cores. That gives you
ten VM’s in total.
Moreover,
you will most likely use some large ones as well. Therefore, you will be able
to have only eight or less VM’s in your cloud.
This is of
course not a limitation in Azure itself, but the annoying part is that you actually
have to create a support incident with Microsoft Azure support to raise it.
Would be nice if it was a self-portal service to change it.
Lucky the process
of getting it done is easy, and you get response fast. In my case, it took
about 30 minutes until everything was up and running with 40 cores. I even
missed the phone call from the support technician J
First step
is to log on to your Azure account.
Click on
your name on the upper right part of the Azure page and select “Contact
Microsoft Support”
If you have
more subscriptions, you can select the right one and then select the right
Country/Region, language and support type (in this case technical)
You select “Quota
or Core Increase Requests” as problem type and “Virtual Machine Cores” as
category
You need to
supply you contact information
Describe
the problem
In addition,
you need to select a severity. You can also tell about your preferred contact
method
And we now have 40 cores. Good times. We could get more cores if we needed more, and remember that you are still only being billed for the cores used.
