Getting Failed State when starting up Azure server

Question

For the last two days, our server has been going into a failed state, the message we receive: "Failed to start virtual machine 'TFC-AVD-0'. Error: Allocation failed. We do not have sufficient capacity for the requested VM size in this region. Read more about improving the likelihood of allocation success at http://aka.ms/allocation-guidance" Apparently we aren't the only ones having this issue, and there doesn't seem to be a fix besides stopping and starting the VM until it successfully starts.

Is there something going on at Microsoft? We've been running this VM for over a year with zero issues and zero down time, and in the last two days, we've been unable to get it working until after 10am.

Anyone else having this issue? Have you found a workaround? We're on US East 2.

Answer 1

Hi Pedro Vieira,
Thank you for reaching out to us on the Microsoft Q&A forum.

Based up on the query you may occasionally experience resource allocation failures because of unprecedented growth in demand for Azure services in specific regions. This problem can occur when you try to create or start VMs in a region while the VMs display the following error code and message: Error: Allocation failed. We do not have sufficient capacity for the requested VM size in this region. Read more about improving the likelihood of allocation success.

Please refer the document for more information: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/virtual-machines/windows/allocation-failure

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