General Availability: MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Today we are announcing the general availability of MaxSurge upgrades for Virtual Machine Scale Sets. MaxSurge can help improve service uptime during upgrade events. Rolling upgrades with MaxSurge creates new instances with the latest scale set model to replace instances running with the old model. By creating new instances instead…

19/11/2024Azure Compute Blog

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