How long does it take to shutdown and startup a vm

Question

Dear Team,

Do you have the estimate time takes to shutdown / startup a vm in correlation of its flavor size? (e.g Standard_DS1_v2, Standard_E64s_v3, Standard_M420)
we are using automation to shutdown and startup vms, thus we need to know the estimation how long does this take.
I am asking a rough number only (of course I understand it all depends to CPU usage, regions, etc)

Best regards, Steve

Answer 1

The startup/shutdown duration of a VM might depend on running services/applications on the VM. E.g. a VM with installed SQL Server might need a little longer to shutdown or startup.
Also the duration depends on the workload in the Azure datacenter.

I would take a duration of 5 minutes max for startup/shutdown duration of a VM.

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten