I'm trying to deploy two VMs in an avset using Visual Studio 2015.
I get the error message below when I attempt to deploy:
Reference Id 1 is not formatted correctly. The Id is expected to reference resources of type virtualNetworks/subnets. Path properties.ipConfigurations[0].properties.subnet.
Full error:
VERBOSE: 11:43:00 PM - Resource Microsoft.Compute/availabilitySets 'avset-apps2dc' provisioning status is succeeded
New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment : 11:43:00 PM - Resource Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces 'vm-machine2-nic1' failed with message '{
"error": {
"code": "InvalidRequestFormat",
"message": "Cannot parse the request.",
"details": [
{
"code": "InvalidJsonReferenceFormat",
"message": "Reference Id 1 is not formatted correctly. The Id is expected to reference resources of type virtualNetworks/subnets. Path properties.ipConfigurations[0].properties.subnet."
}
It's really got me stumped and I was wondering if anyone has come across this before?
The scripts have been sanitised.
Template file:
{
"$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
"parameters": {
"stdAdminUserName": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"stdAdminPassword": {
"type": "securestring"
},
"storageAccountName": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"storageAccountType": {
"type": "string",
"allowedValues": [
"Standard_LRS",
"Standard_GRS"
]
},
"faultDomains": {
"type": "int"
},
"updateDomains": {
"type": "int"
},
"applicationid": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"sharedservice": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"msdref": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"project": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"costcentre": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"templateref": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"environment": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"operatingsystem": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"deploymentzone": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"shutdownschedule": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"avSetName": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"vmInstances": {
"type": "int"
},
"vmSize": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"vmDiskSize": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"networkName": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"networkResourceGroup": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"subnetName": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"vmNicNamePrefix": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"vmNamePrefix": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
}
},
"variables": {
"VNetID": "[resourceId(Parameters('networkResourceGroup'), 'Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks', Parameters('networkname'))]",
"SubnetRef": "[concat(variables('VNetID'), '/subnets/', Parameters('subnetName'))]",
"stdVMImagePublisher": "MicrosoftWindowsServer",
"stdVMImageOffer": "WindowsServer",
"stdWindowsOSVersion": "2012-R2-Datacenter",
"stdVHDContainerName": "vhds",
"VMOSDiskNamePrefix": "VMOSDisk",
"VMDATADisk1NamePrefix": "DataDisk1VM",
"VMDATADisk2NamePrefix": "DataDisk2VM"
},
"resources": [
{
"name": "[Parameters('storageAccountName')]",
"type": "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts",
"location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
"apiVersion": "2015-06-15",
"dependsOn": [],
"tags": {
"displayname": "[Parameters('storageAccountName')]",
"applicationid": "[Parameters('applicationid')]",
"sharedservice": "[Parameters('sharedservice')]",
"msdref": "[Parameters('msdref')]",
"project": "[Parameters('project')]",
"costcentre": "[Parameters('costcentre')]",
"operatingsystem": "[Parameters('operatingsystem')]",
"deploymentzone": "[Parameters('deploymentzone')]",
"shutdownschedule": "[Parameters('shutdownschedule')]"
},
"properties": {
"accountType": "[Parameters('storageAccountType')]"
}
},
{
"name": "[parameters('avSetName')]",
"type": "Microsoft.Compute/availabilitySets",
"location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
"apiVersion": "2015-06-15",
"dependsOn": [],
"tags": {
"displayName": "[parameters('avSetName')]"
},
"properties": {
"platformUpdateDomainCount": "[parameters('updateDomains')]",
"platformFaultDomainCount": "[parameters('faultDomains')]"
}
},
{
"name": "[concat(Parameters('vmNicNamePrefix'), copyindex(1))]",
"type": "Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces",
"location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
"apiVersion": "2015-06-15",
"copy": {
"name": "nicLoop",
"count": "[parameters('vmInstances')]"
},
"tags": {
"costcenter": "[Parameters('costcentre')]",
"environment": "[Parameters('environment')]",
"project": "[Parameters('project')]",
"role": "vmnic",
"templateref": "[Parameters('templateRef')]"
},
"properties": {
"ipConfigurations": [
{
"name": "ipconfig1",
"properties": {
"privateIPAllocationMethod": "Dynamic",
"subnet": {
"id": "[parameters('vmInstances')]"
}
}
}
]
}
},
{
"name": "[concat(parameters('vmInstances'), copyindex(1))]",
"type": "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines",
"location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
"apiVersion": "2015-06-15",
"dependsOn": [
"[concat('Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/', Parameters('storageAccountName'))]",
"[concat('Microsoft.Compute/availabilitySets/', Parameters('avSetName'))]",
"nicLoop"
],
"copy": {
"name": "virtualMachineLoop",
"count": "[parameters('vmInstances')]"
},
"tags": {
"applicationid": "[Parameters('applicationid')]",
"costcentre": "[Parameters('costcentre')]",
"deploymentzone": "[Parameters('deploymentzone')]",
"displayname": "[concat(parameters('vmInstances'), copyindex(1))]",
"environment": "[Parameters('environment')]",
"msdref": "[Parameters('msdref')]",
"operatingsystem": "[Parameters('operatingsystem')]",
"project": "[Parameters('project')]",
"sharedservice": "[Parameters('sharedservice')]"
},
"properties": {
"availabilitySet": {
"id": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Compute/availabilitySets',parameters('avSetName'))]"
},
"hardwareProfile": {
"vmSize": "[Parameters('vmSize')]"
},
"osProfile": {
"computerName": "[concat(parameters('vmInstances'), copyindex(1))]",
"adminUsername": "[Parameters('stdAdminUserName')]",
"adminPassword": "[Parameters('stdAdminPassword')]"
},
"storageProfile": {
"imageReference": {
"publisher": "[variables('STDVMImagePublisher')]",
"offer": "[variables('STDVMImageOffer')]",
"sku": "[variables('stdWindowsOSVersion')]",
"version": "latest"
},
"osDisk": {
"name": "[concat(variables('VMOSDiskNamePrefix'), copyindex(1))]",
"vhd": {
"uri": "[concat('http://', Parameters('storageAccountName'), '.blob.core.windows.net/', variables('stdVHDContainerName'), '/', variables('VMOSDiskNamePrefix'), copyindex(1), '.vhd')]"
},
"caching": "ReadWrite",
"createOption": "FromImage"
},
"networkProfile": {
"networkInterfaces": [
{
"id": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces', concat(Parameters('vmNicNamePrefix'), copyindex(1)))]"
}
]
}
},
"outputs": {
}
}
}
]
}
Parameters file:
{
"$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentParameters.json#",
"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
"parameters": {
"stdAdminUserName": {
"value": "localadministrator"
},
"storageAccountName": {
"value": "straccforvhdsnstuff1234"
},
"storageAccountType": {
"value": "Standard_LRS"
},
"faultDomains": {
"value": 2
},
"updateDomains": {
"value": 5
},
"applicationid": {
"value": "test-apps2"
},
"sharedservice": {
"value": "No"
},
"msdref": {
"value": "123456"
},
"project": {
"value": "test-apps2"
},
"costcentre": {
"value": "ab1234"
},
"operatingsystem": {
"value": "Windows 2012-R2-Datacenter"
},
"deploymentzone": {
"value": "safe-zone"
},
"avSetName": {
"value": "avset-apps2dc"
},
"vmInstances": {
"value": 1
},
"vmSize": {
"value": "Standard_D3_V2"
},
"vmDiskSize": {
"value": "256"
},
"networkName": {
"value": "vnet-network"
},
"networkResourceGroup": {
"value": "rgp-for-network"
},
"subnetName": {
"value": "subnettest-app2"
},
"vmNicNamePrefix": {
"value": "vm-machine2-nic"
},
"vmNamePrefix": {
"value": "vm-machine2-"
},
"templateref": {
"value": "tempref123"
},
"environment": {
"value": "green"
},
"shutdownschedule": {
"value": "notapp"
}
}
}
I have run the JSON through online validators and no problems highlighted, there are no errors in the script according to VS2015. However, the deployment fails "reference 1 not formatted properly"
One more point, not sure how much it applies, the networking resource group is independent of the VM resource group.
1could not set subnet id value. You could check your template[parameters('vmInstances')]the value is 1.