What is VM maintenance how can we do it?

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What is VM maintenance how can we do it?

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2024-05-27T04:14:38.52+00:00

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Hi @Dhana92,

Thanks for contacting Microsoft Q&A platform.

Azure periodically performs updates to improve the reliability, performance, and security of the host infrastructure for virtual machines. Updates are changes like patching the hosting environment or upgrading and decommissioning hardware. A majority of these updates are completed without any impact to the hosted virtual machines. However, there are cases where updates do have an impact:

If the maintenance does not require a reboot, Azure pauses the VM for few seconds while the host is updated. These types of maintenance operations are applied fault domain by fault domain. Progress is stopped if any warning health signals are received.
If maintenance requires a reboot, you get a notice of when the maintenance is planned. You are given a time window of about 35 days where you can start the maintenance yourself, when it works for you.

Check out also the following docs about vm maintenance:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/maintenance-notifications

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