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re: Windows Azure Virtual Machine disappeared or gone , How do I recover?

Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:37:30 GMT

Hi, (Trouble with restoring VM)

Below are the few options for you to recreate the VM.

1) If you are using the 90 day free trial subscription and have days left, you would need to wait for the billing cycle to start again, so that for the next billing cycle, the quotas are reset, you will be able to use the subscription again. After the subscription becomes active, you can recreate the VM.

2) If you the trial subscription you are using does not have any days left for the billing cycle to start again, you can contact our billing support team using www.windowsazure.com/.../contact and convert the subscription to paid subscription and then recreate the VM.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Hari

re: Windows Azure Virtual Machine disappeared or gone , How do I recover?

Trouble with restoring VM — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:13:39 GMT

I have lost my VM after trial period expired. I was trying to restore VM following advise in this article, but have found problem with selecting the Disk. I can't choose it because it's subscription disabled. What I must to do? How can I change subscription of the disk?

re: Windows Azure Virtual Machine disappeared or gone , How do I recover?

David — Tue, 07 May 2013 10:01:53 GMT

I was also hit by the vanishing VM phenomenon and was glad I found this post on how to restore the vhd to a new vm. What I learned along the way is that choosing an 'availability set' during the VM creation process can double or quadruple the number of compute hours you are charged every day, so avoid that unless you really need high availability.

In my case I'm using a single VM for self study and everything is self contained on the VM. To maximize my compute hour usage I delete the VM every evening and create a new one in the morning and attach the saved VHD. It takes a few minutes so I start the process before I shower, eat breakfast,, drink coffee etc, so by the time I'm done the VM is ready to go.

That way I only use about 6 - 8 compute hours for every 24 clock hours rather than the 96 I was using daily and ran out of allocated 'free hours' in less than a week!

Hope this helps someone, I wish the Azure portal had made this easier to understand from the get-go!!!

re: Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Gotcha’s!

Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:18:01 GMT

Thanks David.

re: Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Gotcha’s!

DavidJCarr — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:12:33 GMT

Great info here. As a new user with an Azure Trial I appreciate this information

re: Windows Azure Virtual Machine disappeared or gone , How do I recover?

Joel — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:19:36 GMT

Hi Robert,

On a longshot that you may see this thread again, I'm curious where you ended up with your buildout? Like you, I have been up to a direct comparison between AWS vs Azure, also leaning towards Azure until I ran into essentially the same issue that you have reported here. While we can recover from this abrupt data loss without any warning, it has raised concerns for other unknowns in the Azure product base.

Joel

re: Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Gotcha’s!

Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:58:19 GMT

Thanks Jesse..

re: Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Gotcha’s!

Jesse — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:50:49 GMT

Awesome Article!

re: "Your credentials did not work" error when connecting to Windows Azure VM's

Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:40:59 GMT

You are welcome Joy.

re: "Your credentials did not work" error when connecting to Windows Azure VM's

Joy — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:59:14 GMT

Thanks so much, this is very helpful!