Ugrading the Azure VM of Window 10 to Visual Studio 2019 VM

Question

Hi

We have a bought a windows 10 VM for a fixed price from Azure ( 3 years lock in). My question is that can I delete this VM and create a new VM of Visual studio of same configuration. Does it affect our billing?

Current VM Config :

         Operating system:  Windows
         Size:  Standard D2 v3 (2 vcpus, 8 GiB memory)
         VM generation : V1
         Offer : Windows-10
         Plan :  rs5-pro
         Proximity placement group : N/A
         Colocation status : N/A

Propose to convert this VM to Visual Studio VM:

          Operating system:  Windows
          Size:  D2s_v3 (2 vcpus, 8 GiB memory, IOPS :3200, Temp Storage: 16Gib)
          License Type : Windows Client
          OS Type disk : Premium SSD or I can use Standard SSD 
          Visual Studio : We have visual studio MSDN license

Can I use replace this VM without effecting the billing?

Thanks
Ankur Shah

Answer 1

Hi @Ankur Mistry Shah,

You can preform a self-service exchange of your existing reservation for the Visual Studio 2019 VM. The exchange will guide you through the process to ensure your billing information is maintained. See this guide for more on that.