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How to determine number of Fault Domains for your target Azure region

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  • Products: FlashGrid Cluster on Azure
  • Products: FlashGrid Server on Azure

The number of fault domains for managed availability sets varies by region - either two or three per region. You can confirm the number of fault domains for your target region by running one of the following scripts.

Azure PowerShell:

Get-AzComputeResourceSku | where{$_.ResourceType -eq 'availabilitySets' -and $_.Name -eq 'Aligned'}

Azure CLI:

az vm list-skus --resource-type availabilitySets --query '[?name==`Aligned`].{Location:locationInfo[0].location, MaximumFaultDomainCount:capabilities[0].value}' -o Table