A new pane with the serial console opens and starts the connection. Select a virtual machine scale set instanceįrom the Help section, select Serial console. The overview page for the virtual machine scale set opens. Navigate to All resources and select a Virtual Machine Scale Set.
If your virtual machine scale set does not have boot diagnostics enabled, ensure you update your virtual machine scale set model to enable boot diagnostics, and then upgrade all instances to the new model in order to access serial console. You will have to navigate to the individual instance of a virtual machine scale set before seeing the Serial console button.
Serial Console is available for virtual machine scale sets, accessible on each instance within the scale set. Serial Console for Virtual Machine Scale Sets Scroll down to the Help section and select Serial console. Navigate to All resources and select a Virtual Machine. Serial Console for VMs is as straightforward as clicking on Serial console within the Help section in the Azure portal. The Serial Console for VMs and virtual machine scale set is accessible only through the Azure portal: Serial Console for Virtual Machines You can find the setting in the Networking section of the storage account Overview page. To use Serial Console, ensure that you are using a custom storage account that is in the same region as your VM and accessible from all networks. Serial Console is currently incompatible with a managed boot diagnostics storage account.
Select Reset password from the Help section. You can create a password-based user with the reset password function of the VM access extension.
In this doc, all mentions to VMs will implicitly include virtual machine scale set instances unless otherwise stated. Serial Console works in the same manner for VMs and virtual machine scale set instances.
The serial console can only be accessed by using the Azure portal and is allowed only for those users who have an access role of Contributor or higher to the VM or virtual machine scale set. This serial connection connects to the ttyS0 or COM1 serial port of the VM or virtual machine scale set instance, providing access independent of the network or operating system state. The Serial Console in the Azure portal provides access to a text-based console for virtual machines (VMs) and virtual machine scale set instances running either Linux or Windows.