I have a requirement to run two different websites, each with its own SAN certificate. This requires that we have 2 IP (or VIPs) on the machine. The machine that will run these websites is currently in Azure as a Virtual Machine running Windows Server 2008 R2.
I have contacted Microsoft Azure Billing support and have been granted a total quota of 3 VIPs on my subscription. How do I now add a second VIP to the Virtual Machine. I cannot find an option for it in the Azure management portal, and the powershell commands (get vm, add ip, updatevm) does not seem to work either.
It is not possible to have 2 VIPs on a single VM. If you can upgrade your VM to Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8 then you can use SNI to enable HTTPs on multiple domains on one VM. Otherwise your only option will be to create 2 VMs or use something else like Windows Azure Websites.
While I have not attempted this within Azure, I would imagine it should follow a standard networking model. You could simply place the VIPs on a loopback interface, then explicitly assign those IPs to your desired virtuals within IIS. No virtual should listen on *:443 or *:80. You would then bind your SSL to the desired IP on the virtual, explicitly. This can all be done within IIS. Azure might be different, but that's how I would do it on a standard build sans Azure. Ping me if you have another questions, but I believe this is very do-able within the current technology stack. I don't have extra VIPs to test within my own Azure account, though, so cannot validate my basic assumptions.
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I need to understand whether is it possible to add AWS Virtual machine to custom domain controller of Azure.
I have created Active Directory Domain controller in one of the Virtual machine of Azure. Now I have created few virtual machines on AWS (Amazon Web Services). I want to add these machines into Azure custom Domain controller.
Is it possible and if yes, then can someone please guide me on how to do that?
I don't think it is possible with AWS now, but you could try and create a Site-to-Site VPN and test, most likely will not work, but who knows, you might try to replicate your Azure VM DNS network configuration on your AWS VM and see if it helps.
Here's the networking guide for Azure AD Services.
I have tested joining Linux VMs across a Site to Site VPN and they work OK (it was to Azure Active Directory Domain Services, machines could join and users log on).
As the above answer notes however DNS is the killer here. With the Linux boxes I was able to use local config files to save needing to replicate the DNS zone, for Windows boxes you could try hacking the hosts file with some #pre #dom entries but in reality I think you would need a zone replica in your AWS DNS servers for it to work reliably.
I am trying out the Free Trial Microsoft Azure.
Basically I created an VM running Windows Server 2008 SP1.
There, I am running GeoServer, being able to access the geoserver from the local browser (eg: http://localhost:8080/geoserver/web)
Now, how to access this from a public browser? It has a public IP 13.93.154.109
which I can't even ping it, not to say to access it.
What did I miss out?
Note: I tried both classic/non-classic VM, result is the same.
Also, I am aware that there is an OpenGeo Suite out there for Azure. But it costs a lot. What I am trying to do is, to share the VM with the other existing product.
Thanks in advance.
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P.S: I am able to ping 13.93.154.109:3389 using PsPing instead of normal Ping.
You need to open the port 8080 to allow traffic on your VM.
Depending on how you have created the VM, it can be done in different ways:
If you have used the Classic workflow, you need to add an endpoint to your cloud service: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-windows-classic-setup-endpoints/
If you have used the Azure Resource Manager workflow, you need to create an inbound rule in the network security group: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-networks-create-nsg-arm-pportal/#create-rules-in-an-existing-nsg
i simply would like to know how to purchase more (vips) for my virtual machine, as i need to run ssl on my sites and you can only run one ssl certificate on a live ip in iis.
if this is not possible how would i go about using multiple SSL certificates?
thanks.
As #Tim stated, you get one IP per cloud service (which can equate to one or more virtual machine instances behind that IP address). To run with multiple SSL certs, you can use Server Name Indication (SNI), available with IIS8+Server 2012. Server 2012 is available for both Virtual Machines and web/worker role stateless VMs.
Here's an article on setting up a web/worker cloud service with SNI, but you should be able to use the same technique with a Virtual Machine.
This is currently not a feature of Azure, but is planned in a future release, I believe. Unfortunately the only way to get multiple VIPs at the moment is to use multiple VMs or multiple cloud services.
I've just set up a windows azure VM and installed IIS on it.
When I remote desktop onto the box I can see the default IIS website fine but I can't get this to serve on the web from the IP address of the box.
I've opened up port 80 on windows firewall and also added an endpoint for port 80.
I've tried to access it with the firewall completely turned off also but to no avail...
I cant work out if there is anything else I need to do to get this working?
Add endpoints for port 80 (http) and port 443 (https) to the VM in the Azure portal (tip: this can be automated with powershell or the Azure cli).
Remote desktop to the machine. Open the Windows firewall control panel and allow traffic to port 80 (http) and port 443 (https) or just turn it off ... the firewall is ON by default (tip: can also be scripted through the VM agent / powershell).
Go to the Azure portal and find the cloudapp.net subdomain for your VM (actually the cloud service) your VM is running under. Try accessing the site with that domain. If that doesn't work, try browsing to http://localhost on the server (remote desktop) to make sure IIS works and troubleshoot from there.
Modify the DNS records of your custom domain to use a CNAME to the .cloudapp.net domain. If you need A records make sure to use the public IP of the cloud service (just ping the .cloudapp.net domain to find it or look in the Azure portal).
You might want to look into Azure Websites or Azure Cloud Services (web roles). Those are a lot easier to manage and a lot cheaper. They still offer most of the functionality.
What fixed the issue for me was to go into the Azure Portal, browse to 'Network Security Groups', select the VM and then create an inbound rule to allow traffic to port 80.
Note: Also ensure that the inbound rule to port 80 is added and enabled on the actual VM.
Well, I deleted the existing VM and Cloud service and started again - all worked fine out of the box this time.
How annoying! The only thing I did notice was that before my cloud service had the same name as my VM - this time they had different names so that might have been what was causing the issue.
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For the newer VMs and pre-configured setups (2015+), it's possible your setup is using an azure asset called "Public IP". If so, you can set a custom DNS name label in it, inside "Configuration". Note that this name will consider any type of region used when creating the VM (e.g. my-site.brazilsouth.cloudapp.azure.com).
It's good to remember that for testing purposes, it still suffices to use the value of the public IP that is randomly designated to you.
The VMs are actually accessed via a Cloud Service (well they are for me). Azure created a Cloud Service automatically to be the scaling engine/load balancer on the front of the VM. I have to connect to the web site via that cloud service, not the VM directly.
Its possible you were using the internal IP rather than the external IP.
The sites have to use the internal IP address in the bindings section of IIS. However, in your dns you will need to use the external IP. This is presumably since the 'internal IP' is just a virtual one that Azure uses to map traffic from the external network to the VM's inside azure.
You should find both the internal and external IP's are visible on the VM's desktop.
Switch off TLS 1.3 in the Registry Editor.
This is what worked for me as of writing this in Mar 2021.
I just installed Openstack on Windows azure virtual machine.
But basicly Openstack need fixed ip(ip address which used to communicate between vm and openstack) and float ip(which used to communicate vm and network outside or internet)
But on windows Azure, VM just gave one private ip and one public ip for my azure virtual machine which i've installed Openstack.
So that VM which i created using openstack can't get both of fixed ip and float ip.
How i can configure this on windows azure vm so that my vm which i created using openstack can get fixed and float ip?
Thanks
I believe you cannot get around IP limitations that your VM gets from Azure. However that being said, depending on what O/S you run, you have always options to introduce more IP-addresses at O/S level.
Now depending of the O/S you can bridge/tunnel those IP addresses to access that VM in a manner that those IPs are exposed to clients. VPN is one good example of such functionality - which you may use different tools (again specific details rely on the O/S).
This is the only solution that comes to my mind; I've faced (and dealt with) the Azure only-one-IP limitation on other scenarios...