Unable to ping Virtual Machines in Virtual network

Question

Created a Virtual network and 3 VM's all configured with that Virtual network.

On the portal, when I go to the Network>MyVNet>Dashboard, at the bottom I can see all 3 virtual machines listed in the virtual network.

I can RDP into each box, when when I do ipconfig I can see the VM's been assigned IP's as expected

192.x.x.4

192.x.x.5

192.x.x.6

But I'm not able to ping one another, do I need to create end point or open up any port?

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Saravana Kumar [MVP BizTalk Server],
Founder/CTO BizTalk360 (BizTalk360.com
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Answer 1

My understanding is that within a single Virtual Network, Azure is not putting any limit on the network traffic, i.e. your 3 VMs are on the same network. But if your VM is Win2012/08R2, by default the OS firewall rule does not allow ICMP(PING), so you need to enable these rules, this is the same behaviour when you have a Win server on premise.

If you want ping outside your VN, then Azure will drop all these packets.

Best,

dong

Answer 2

That's brillant answer, indeed that was the problem.

Follow these steps and you are good http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749323(WS.10).aspx

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Saravana Kumar [MVP BizTalk Server],
Founder/CTO BizTalk360 (BizTalk360.com
Blog: blogs.digitaldeposit.net/saravana/
Community: biztalk247.com/