Auto shutdown and start

Question

Our virtual machine has been configure to auto shutdown daily at 0000 hours and auto start at 0700 hours everyday. much of the time it fails to start we will manually start it. please help

Answer 1

Hi Botho,

Please have a look at the following documentation:

Troubleshoot Start/Stop VMs during off-hours issues

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/troubleshoot/start-stop-vm

Scenario: All VMs fail to start or stop

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/troubleshoot/start-stop-vm#all-vms-fail-to-startstop

Scenario: Some of my VMs fail to start or stop

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/troubleshoot/start-stop-vm#some-vms-fail-to-startstop

Hope some of the scenarios in the documentation help. I'd also recommend taking a look at your Azure activity log to see what the exact error is:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/essentials/activity-log?tabs=powershell

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