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How to find an Azure instance role size programmatically?

Is there an API in azure to find the properties of a role (and an instance role)? I'm looking for the instance size, and it is not available in the Azure Management API.

Solution

  • VM size isn't exposed in the API, as you've already found out. As suggested by Neil Mackenzie here, you can call Environment.ProcessorCount from your Azure application, which lets you deduce VM size. You could then store this in an Azure table, for example, and query the table.

    EDIT: Here's a screen snapshot where I pushed an Extra-Large instance to Windows Azure and called Environment.ProcessorCount:

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    EDIT June 6, 2011 - The Serivce Management API was just updated, including updates to GetDeployment which returns instance size, SDK version, and more. See blog post here for more details.