Ensure overprovisioning is disabled for Azure Windows Virtual Machine Scale Set

LOW

Description

Overprovisioning is Enabled for Azure Windows Virtual Machine Scale Set. This may exhibit unexpected behavior in applications.

Remediation

In Azure Console -

  1. Open the Azure Portal and go to Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
  2. Choose the Virtual Machine scale set you wish to edit.
  3. Under Settings, select Configuration.
  4. Set Overprovisioning to Off.

In Terraform -

  1. In the azurerm_windows_virtual_machine_scale_set resource, set overprovision to false.

References:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/windows_virtual_machine_scale_set#overprovision

Policy Details

Rule Reference ID: AC_AZURE_0350
CSP: Azure
Remediation Available: Yes
Resource Category: Compute
Resource Type: Virtual Machine

Frameworks