Please note that CentOS 6 has reached its End Of Life (EOL) and is no longer supported by the CentOS community. See Linux Installation Notes for more information. When converting from a raw disk to VHD, you must ensure that the raw disk size is a multiple of 1 MB before conversion. All VHDs on Azure must have a virtual size aligned to 1 MB.Don't configure a swap partition on the OS disk.For more information, see Red Hat KB 436883.
Systems running custom kernels older than 2.6.37, or RHEL-based kernels older than 2.6.32-504 must set the boot parameter numa=off on the kernel command-line in nf.
This issue primarily impacts older distributions using the upstream Centos 2.6.32 kernel, and was fixed in Centos 6.6 (kernel-2.6.32-504).
vhd files, for example a virtualization solution such as Hyper-V. This article assumes that you've already installed a CentOS (or similar derivative) Linux operating system to a virtual hard disk. Prepare a CentOS 7.0+ virtual machine for Azure.Prepare a CentOS 6.x virtual machine for Azure.
Learn to create and upload an Azure virtual hard disk (VHD) that contains a CentOS-based Linux operating system. Applies to: ✔️ Linux VMs ✔️ Flexible scale sets