Getting a list of VM SKUs with Powershell

2017-08-13

Azure

Azure, PowerShell

I was working on an ARM template the other day for deploying an ElasticSearch cluster on Azure. One of the things I needed to decide on was the SKUs of the VMs in the cluster. I knew I wanted a Linux machine but I wasn’t familiar with the SKU Names that I had to enter.

I found this very useful PowerShell command to list all the available VM SKUs in a specific region

1	Get-AzureRmVMImageSky -Location <location> -Offer <type>

You can see below a couple of results from this command for Ubuntu or Windows :

Ubuntu Server VM SKUs in EastUS 2

Windows Server VM SKUs in EastUS 2

You can use the values from the ‘skus’ column in your ARM templates when defining VM instances.

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