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Expand Up @@ -26,13 +26,8 @@ The scale-in policy feature provides users a way to configure the order in which
### Default scale-in policy

#### Flexible orchestration
By default, Virtual Machine Scale Set applies this policy to determine which instance(s) will be scaled in. With the *Default* policy, VMs are selected for scale-in in the following order:

1. Balance virtual machines across availability zones (if the scale set is deployed in zonal configuration)
2. Balance virtual machines across fault domains (best effort)
3. Delete virtual machine with the highest instance ID

Users don't need to specify a scale-in policy if they just want the default ordering to be followed.
> [!IMPORTANT]
>At this time, the scale-in policy feature does not work with Flexible Orchestration mode.

#### Uniform orchestration
By default, Virtual Machine Scale Set applies this policy to determine which instance(s) will be scaled in. With the *Default* policy, VMs are selected for scale-in in the following order:
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-ResourceGroupName "myResourceGroup" `
-Location "<VMSS location>" `
-VMScaleSetName "myScaleSet" `
-OrchestrationMode "Flexible" `
-OrchestrationMode "Uniform" `
-ScaleInPolicy “OldestVM”
```

Expand All @@ -118,7 +113,7 @@ az group create --name <myResourceGroup> --location <VMSSLocation>
az vmss create \
--resource-group <myResourceGroup> \
--name <myVMScaleSet> \
--orchestration-mode flexible \
--orchestration-mode uniform \
--image Ubuntu2204 \
--admin-username <azureuser> \
--generate-ssh-keys \
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