Manage a virtual machine reservation

Question

Hello,

I tried to create a reservation for a VM of a certain size. Once the reservation was created, I indeed found the reservation in the Azure reservations section. However, I don't see anything appearing in my VMs. I don't understand how this works.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Hi,

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After you buy an Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance, the reservation discount is automatically applied to virtual

machines that match the attributes and quantity of the reservation. A reservation covers the compute costs of your virtual machines.

The Azure reservation discount is applied to running VM instances on an hourly basis. The reservations that you have purchased are matched to the usage emitted by the running VMs to apply the reservation discount.

No problem if you created the vm after the reservation,

it works just like this, after you create the reservation and create the vm of that sku the reservation is automatically applied

ref link:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/understand-vm-reservation-charges

Hope this helps

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Luca

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Answer 2

After you buy an Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance, the reservation discount is automatically applied to virtual machines that match the attributes and quantity of the reservation. A reservation covers the compute costs of your virtual machines.

When you deallocate, delete, or scale the number of VMs, the reservation discount automatically applies to another matching resource in the specified scope. If no matching resources are found in the specified scope, then the reserved hours are lost.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/understand-vm-reservation-charges?toc=%2Fazure%2Fcost-management-billing%2Freservations%2Ftoc.json

Answer 3

Thank you very much for explanation. I created the VM after creating the reservation. Will the reservation saving costs be applied on the new VM? If not, my reservation is then completely useless?