Azure Powershell - Can't find classic VMs

Question

I'm trying to retrieve a complete list of VMs through PowerShell, but I'm having trouble pulling Classic VMs, and I'm having trouble understanding the distinction between RM and regular cmdlets, particularly when it comes to subscriptions.

Get-AzureRMSubscription correctly returns a complete list of the subscriptions my Azure account has access to. Get-AzureSubscription returns nothing. This means that I can correctly pull all of the new style VMs from any one subscription using Get-AzureRMVM, but since I can't find a 'classic' style subscription, I can't pull any of my existing classic VMs as I can't define which subscription to look in.

I can successfully view all VMs in all Subscriptions through the portal, but not through Powershell for whatever reason. I'm all out of ideas, is there something I'm missing?

Answer 1

Get-AzureRMSubscription Get-AzureSubscription Get-AzureRMVM are resource mode cmdlet, your VMs are classic mode VM, you should use classic cmdlets. Just use the following cmdlets.

#login your classic account
Add-AzureAccount
# Enumerates all configured subscriptions on your local machine.
Get-AzureSubscription  
# Select the subscription to use
Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName "mysubscription" 
#get classic VM
Get-AzureVM

Answer 2

Classic VM's were the norm when Azure was used using manage.windowsazure.com where, each virtual machine had a cloud service attached to it by default and resources such as Virtual Networks and Firewalls (ACL) were static to each resource.

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) based deployments gives you the power of having flexible deployment models (e.g. one firewall/NSG for x number of VM's). A detailed study can be found on the below link:

Azure Resource Manager based deployments explained

For your question you can use the below Cmdlets to get all classic virtual machines.

#login your classic (work AD / Personal) account using the pop-up
Add-AzureAccount
# Get All subscriptions under the non-rm account. DO NOT USE Get-AzureRMSubscription for any classic resources

Get-AzureSubscription  
# Select the subscription to use using the Subscription name or ID (if all your subscription names say pay-as-you-go for e.g. you may want to use your subscription ID)

Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName "enter-your-subscription-name" OR -SubscriptionId "alternatively-use-subscription-id"

#List all the VM's in a variable for further use (if needed, else direct display)

$vmList = Get-AzureVM

#Output the Virtual Machines on the subscription

Write-Output ($vmList)

Done !