WARN: Unable to find Azure VM names for location: East US

[SashiTest7416]

We are not able to run nextflow on azure batch service. Followed the article but we are not able to run. Please let us know if any setting to be changed.

https://github.com/microsoft/Genomics-Quickstart/blob/main/03-Nextflow-Azure/README.md

Nextflow.config file

plugins {
  id 'nf-azure'
}

process {
  executor = 'azurebatch'
  container = 'nextflow/rnatoy@sha256:9ac0345b5851b2b20913cb4e6d469df77cf1232bafcadf8fd929535614a85c75'
}

azure {
  batch {
    location = 'East US'
    accountName = 'excelratest'
    accountKey = '$BATCH_ACCOUNT_KEY'
    autoPoolMode = true
    pools {
              centospool {
                  vmType = 'Standard_D4_v3'
                  maxVmCount = 2

              }
          }
}
storage {
    accountName = "excelrademostrg"
    accountKey = "$STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY"
  }
}

profiles {
  aztest {
    params.reads = "az://cbcrg-eu/ggal/*_{1,2}.fq"
    params.annot = "az://cbcrg-eu/ggal/ggal_1_48850000_49020000.bed.gff"
    params.genome = "az://cbcrg-eu/ggal/ggal_1_48850000_49020000.Ggal71.500bpflank.fa"
  }
}

[SashiTest7416]

HI Team, Any updates???

[GJSissons]

I just ran into the same issue

[abhi18av]

Could you please share the generated .nextflow.log file with us?

Want to make sure it is not related to #2868

[GJSissons]

I was making the same error that @manuelesimi pointed out. I changed the location to "eastus" and it worked right away. The region shows as "East US" in the Azure portal, but that's only the display name. Thank you!!

[manuelesimi]

The location setting in your config file is not correct. You should use:

    location = 'eastus'

or

    location = 'eastus2'

depending on your account's region in Azure.

See the name for each region here:
https://azuretracks.com/2021/04/current-azure-region-names-reference/

[manuelesimi]

The instructions have been adjusted to reflect this discussion. See: #2991
They now explicitly mention the name of the region and how to get it.