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A proximity placement group is a logical grouping used to make sure that Azure compute resources are physically located close to each other. Proximity placement groups are useful for workloads where low latency is a requirement.
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Proximity placement groups cannot be used with dedicated hosts.
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## Create the proximity placement group
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1. After it passes validation, select **Create** to deploy the VM in the placement group.
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# Add an Existing VM to Proximity Placement Group
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### Prerequisites
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## Add an existing VM to a proximity placement group
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You can also add an existing VM to a proximity placement group.
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1. If the VM is part of the Availability set, then we need to add the Availability set into the placement group
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1. If there exists a VM already part of an Availability Zone in the placement group, then while adding a VM we need to ensure that the VM to be added is part of the same Availability Zone
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E.g. VM1 is in AVzone 1 and is a part of placement group, then if we’re planning to add vm2, then vm2 should be part of the same AV zone
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1. Proximity placement groups cannot be used with dedicated hosts.
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#### Once this prerequisites are met
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## Add VMs existing in an AV set into Placement group can be achieved by
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1. Stop (Deallocate) all the VMs in the Availability set
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## Add VMs existing in an AV set into a proximity placement group
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If the VM is part of the Availability set, you need to add the availability set into the the placement group, before adding the VMs.
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1. Stop\deallocate all the VMs in the availability set.
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1. Go to Availability set configuration
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1. Select the Placement group and click save
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1. Start the VMs

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