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Dedicated Hosts

Overview

The hostGroup and host builders create dedicated hosts in azure and their parent resource, a host group, to efficiently manage a physical host resource in Azure. Dedicated hosts are the same physical servers used in our data centers, provided as a resource. To learn more about dedicated hosts, reference the Azure Docs

Host Group (Microsoft.Compute/hostGroups)
Host (Microsoft.Compute/hostGroups/hosts)

Builder Keywords

Applies To	Keyword	Purpose
hostGroup	name	Name of the host group resource
hostGroup	add_availability_zone	Assign a zone to the host group.
hostGroup	support_automatic_placement	Feature flag for automatic placement of the VMs
hostGroup	platform_fault_domain_count	How many fault domains to support, depends on the region.
host	name	Name of the host resource
host	license_type	The licenses to bring the hosts, i.e. WindowsHybrid, WindowsPerpetual
host	auto_replace_on_failure	Feature flag whether to auto replace the host on failure
host	sku	name of the sku for the dedicated hosts. Valid sku’s vary by subscription, consult the Dedicated Host documentation
host	platform_fault_domain	Fault domain to assign the host
host	parent_host_group	Name of the host group to assign the hosts to

Example

#r "nuget:Farmer"

open Farmer
open Farmer.Builders

arm {
    location Location.EastUS

    add_resources
        [
            hostGroup {
                name "myhostgroup"
                support_automatic_placement true
                add_availability_zone "1"
                platform_fault_domain_count 2
            }
            host {
                name "myhost"
                parent_host_group (ResourceName "myHostGroup")
                platform_fault_domain 2
                sku "Fsv2-Type2"
            }
        ]
}