Today I had to help a customer trying to deploy some VMs in Azure Classic that have two NIC cards. No problem I say, it’s been a while since I worked with Azure Classic but from what I recall it was pretty straight forward, but had to be done via PowerShell as there is not GUI option in the portal for deploying two NICs.
The basic directions can be found here.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-networks-multiple-nics/
However, after banging my head against the wall for a few hours I stumble across this nugget of information.
It seems like what the Azure Portal GUI says the name of your virtual network is can sometime be completely different than the actual name which is returned when you run Get-AzureVMNetSite | Select Name. As you can see in the screen shots below the Virtual Network that I created called “Public-Azure-East” is actually called “Group Group Azure Public East”. How that happened and why the GUI displays the wrong name is beyond my comprehension.
As you can see, my feeble attempts at creating the virtual machine failed, saying “BadRequest: The virtual network Public-Azure-East does not exist.” I was sure it had something to do with the multiple subscriptions I use, but it turned out to be this bug where the Azure Portal Displays the name I used in creating the Virtual Network, however the actual name is something completely different.
Why something so simple as creating a VM with two NICs can’t be accomplished via the GUI is another story completely.
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