Deletion of VM

Question

Hi Experts, i am new to azure
What is the best practice to delete a virtual machine from Azure, let say i have a virtual machine server01, when i click All Resources- when i type Server01, i can see i can see virtual machine(server01), network interface(server01-NIC), network security group(server01-nsg), public ip address(server01-public-ip), disks(server01-OS,server01-disk01) . but how can i know if any disk is mapped to other VM or this security group is used by other VM, or this NIC is binded with other VM. when deleting i want to make sure i am deleting this VM without impacting any other VM.

Answer 1

Hi,

The following blog post goes through the deletion of an Azure VM and cleanup steps with PowerShell:
How to Remove an Azure Virtual Machine and Cleanup with PowerShell

The following script can also find and delete unattached Azure disks:
Find and delete unattached Azure managed and unmanaged disks

The Azure VM deletion is also a process that is being improved, see the uservoice here:
https://feedback.azure.com/forums/216843-virtual-machines/suggestions/8945692-delete-vm-with-all-associated-resources

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Best regards,
Leon

Answer 2

My script here in the following link can solve this
http://cloudcompute.info/delete-azure-vm-and-all-associated-resources-using-powershell-script/

Thanks,
Manu