How do I change an Azure VM Standard E48bds v5 to Standard_FX36mds?

Allen Ryan 1

When I try to resize, the "Size" blade says "Unsupported availability zone Sizes are not supported in zone 1. Change your availability zone to select these sizes". If I try to change the availability zone, it says "Selected VM(s) cannot be moved to availability zone. Try selecting different VM(s)."

What can I do?

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2023-12-08T04:00:12.7366667+00:00

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2023-12-11T04:58:42.5366667+00:00

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v-vvellanki-MSFT 4,920 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-12-04T08:28:55.64+00:00

Hi @Allen Ryan ,

Thanks for contacting Microsoft Q&A platform.
It seems the VM which you are trying to resize is not added to an availability zone.
You can't add an existing VM to an availability set after it's created. VMs must be created within the availability set to make sure they're correctly distributed across the hardware. A VM can only be added to an availability set when it is created. To change the availability set, you need to delete and then recreate the virtual machine.

Please refer to the below documents for more information:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/tutorial-availability-sets https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/change-availability-set

Hope this helps you.
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Allen Ryan 1 Reputation point

2023-12-05T00:52:19.8266667+00:00

The VM I'm trying to resize is already in an availability zone (zone 1). The new size says it's not supported in zone 1 per the message I mentioned above. I can't move the existing VM to another zone due to the error message I mentioned above.

What can I do?

v-vvellanki-MSFT 4,920 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-12-06T05:17:10.75+00:00

Hi @Allen Ryan ,
We can not move or change availability zone of a resource once it was created.
You can move a VM to a different availability zone, create its copy in the appropriate availability zone and then delete the original VM.

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