Stopped Virtual Machine

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Stopped Virtual Machine

Neerav Agrawal 50

I stopped around 80 virtual machines which started showing in (stop/deallocated) state.

Now all those machines seems to be deleted automatically.

Is this a expected behaviour that the machines gets deleted after stopping those?

Can those be restored anyway if needed in future ?

Neerav Agrawal 50 Reputation points

2023-09-26T18:27:30.74+00:00

I manually stopped those by selecting VMs and mark them stop 2 days back. And now I can't find those.
Anonymous

2023-10-11T17:00:10.9333333+00:00

Is there someone I can contact to restore a classic VM that has been permanently stopped? Only need it restored long enough to migrate to a new ARM. I missed the deadline of yesterday Oct. 10. Thanks
kobulloc-MSFT 26,811 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-10-11T18:09:57.99+00:00

Hello, Jim Matson! Has the VM been deleted or is it just stopped? You can detach a data disk and move it to another VM:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/detach-disk

Please start a new thread and we'd be happy to provide additional assistance.

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Neerav Agrawal 50 Reputation points

2023-09-26T18:27:30.74+00:00

I manually stopped those by selecting VMs and mark them stop 2 days back. And now I can't find those.
Anonymous

2023-10-11T17:00:10.9333333+00:00

Is there someone I can contact to restore a classic VM that has been permanently stopped? Only need it restored long enough to migrate to a new ARM. I missed the deadline of yesterday Oct. 10. Thanks
kobulloc-MSFT 26,811 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-10-11T18:09:57.99+00:00

Hello, Jim Matson! Has the VM been deleted or is it just stopped? You can detach a data disk and move it to another VM:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/detach-disk

Please start a new thread and we'd be happy to provide additional assistance.

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kobulloc-MSFT 26,811 Microsoft Employee Moderator

Hello, @Neerav Agrawal !

Do VMs get deleted when you stop/deallocate them?

What did you use to stop the VMs (script, etc.)? Deallocating VMs should leave them in the deallocated state, not deleted:

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Generally there isn't an option to restore deleted VMs unless you've already configured backup and restore. If that has been configured, you can use the following documentation to restore the VMs:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-arm-restore-vms

Soft delete is a feature that protects deleted backup data for VMs, however the VMs must have backups.

If not, there is the possibility of restoring the VM from an OS disk if that still remains.

If a VM has been deleted without restore, backups, or a remaining OS disk there's very little that can be done. If it's production critical let us know and we'll see if there's anything that can be done on the backend however this is very unlikely to be successful.

I hope this has been helpful! Your feedback is important so please take a moment to accept answers. If you still have questions, please let us know what is needed in the comments so the question can be answered. Thank you for helping to improve Microsoft Q&A!

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Neerav Agrawal 50 Reputation points

2023-09-26T18:44:33.5033333+00:00

I just selected the VMs and used the stop check box to stop those. can we check some logs who deleted the machines if those can't be deleted by using this option.
kobulloc-MSFT 26,811 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-09-26T19:24:24.3966667+00:00

Hello, @Neerav Agrawal !

If you want to see who deleted a Virtual Machine within the last 90 days, you can check Azure Monitor for Delete Virtual Machine in the activity log (be sure to update the timespan value from 6 hours). You'll see a time stamp as well as who the event was initiated by:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/essentials/activity-log?tabs=powershell
Neerav Agrawal 50 Reputation points

2023-09-26T19:30:20.74+00:00

Got the answer. I have checked the logs as suggested and these were deleted by any other team. thank you for your responses and help here.
kobulloc-MSFT 26,811 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-09-26T20:05:24.16+00:00

No worries, @Neerav Agrawal ! Happy to help!

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