Windows Azure virtual machine is slow to access network when scaling
I'm running some startup scripts (cmd/bat) on my small azure VM which include a file-transfer operation from a mounted VHD, and normally it finishes in about 3 minutes (copying files and extracting ~500Mb zip file with command-line 7z). When I scale out to ~150 instances, the same operation is very slow (up to 15 minutes in total, most of which is used by 7z). Also, the nodes which are the slowest to complete the bootup procedure are very hard to access at first using mstsc(animation is lagging and takes a lot of time to log in), but that might not be related. What could be the problem? We had