Azure: "Cloud Services" for VM - Load Balancing, yes, and other things?

I'm trying to get a handle on the significance of the cloud service
(that is created when a new VM is created). I understand that a group of
VMs need to belong to the same cloud service in order to participate in
Load Balancing. I can't see any other reason to group VMs into a single
Cloud Service. On the other hand it seems like overkill to create a
cloud service for each VM.
Are there any advantages/reasons to adding a group of VMs to Cloud Service other than Load Balancing?

Hi,
If you made a group VMs as a cloud service, you can configure them and manage them by yourself, you could select Linux or Windows Server VMs and either compose the VM images in the cloud or upload a VHD you’re previously
created using Hyper-V, You can capture a VM and add it your image gallery for easy reuse. you also could run a product like Active Directory or SQL Server or SharePoint Server successfully, etc...
I suggest you have a look at following article. (create VM as cloud service belong to IaaS)
#http://davidpallmann.blogspot.in/2012/07/windows-azure-is-3-lane-highway-how-to.html
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Good evening,
I've been working on and with a VS2013 Update 2 / Azure SDK 2.3 Cloud Service project for a while now and never had a problem debugging it (setting the .ccproj Project as Startup Project) but at the moment I cannot Debug it anymore - I always get the following
error message:
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Release|Any CPU respectively) as its output folder(s). Why is the Solution config appearing up there?
And more importantly.. why is this happening and what can I do?!
Thanks,
-Jörg
Ps: there seems to be a related
connect bug and these sorts of issues do appear around the forums but none contains a solution (neither reinstalling the Azure SDK nor cloaking the workspace/re-retrieving & building everything worked).

Good morning Jambor,
I already tried de-installing everything Azure-Tooling related including the Azure SDK, Restarting my machine and re-installing the SDK.
Same result. I can build the .ccproj perfectly fine and the cspack file IS generated perfectly fine, only debugging does not work and there's NO information in the VS output window (again - all projects succeed to build).
I tried explicitely running VS as Administrator, no change. I removed all IIS Express sites (as the ccproj has one web worker role), remapped my local TFS workspace.. nothing helped.
As building works, deploying to Azure Cloud Service (manually and via Publish inside VS) all works -perfectly-, I am pretty sure this IS a bug and I'd LOVE to help to get this fixed. As I said, currently I cannot debug and/or run & test my work, hence
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Can a Worker Role process call Antimalware for Azure Cloud Services programmatically?

I'm trying to find a solution that I can use to perform virus scanning on files that have been uploaded to Azure blob storage. I wanted to know if it is possible to copy the file to local storage on a Worker Role instance, call Antimalware for Azure
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Hi,
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hi dave,
>>Cloud Services are not Sql Server (obviously) but that led to the question - Is there a list of best practices for Azure Cloud Services? If so, what are they?
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http://gauravmantri.com/2013/01/11/some-best-practices-for-building-windows-azure-cloud-applications/
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CloudPowerHowToScaleAzureWebsitesGloballyWithTrafficManager.aspx
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh180158.aspx ). And generally, if we want connect the client to server on Azure, the service bus is a good choice (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-dotnet-multi-tier-app-using-service-bus-queues/
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That's actually what I meant in my first post. When publishing to a new service, it is fine, because the deployment does not have to compare what is already there (it is a new service, so nothing is there) and what is in your package. But while upgrading
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I am Manikandan, From Myeasydocs.com.
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schedule tasks in our applications. I need assist on creating multiple worker role creation and deployment.
Is there is any site on explaining the worker role process in details?
Thanks in advance .. !!

Hi,
In Worker role, Applications hosted within worker roles can run asynchronous, long-running or perpetual tasks independent of user interaction or input. It is a service component that is useful for generalized development, and may perform background processing
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One of the Cloud services that we have deployed on Windows Azure Cloud services using Azure Worker role is unexpectedly transitioning to Stopped state. There doesn't appear to be any valid reason behind this and it runs normally after we switch to
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Is it possible to develop some alert service which informs the Administrator or configured alert users that the Cloud service has shut down ? We tried to configure the Windows Azure alert but the metrics & logging doesn't seem to match with Cloud service
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From my experience, several operations in the Service Management API permit you to manage your cloud service either by referencing a deployment by its deployment name, or by referencing the deployment environment (staging or production) in
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Deploying Windows Azure Cloud Service to multiple instances

Hello folks,
Currently, I have Windows Azure Cloud service on one instance, if I move to multiple instances, will Azure deploy it to all instances during the time of deployment? Basically, the fact that there are multiple instances behind the Cloud Service will be transparent
to the whole deployment process, is that a correct understanding?
Thanks

Hi,
From my experience, all the instances in one cloud service were the same, and we just focus on the application and not the infrastructure. Refer to
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/cloud-services/ for more information.
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