Cannot delete VM and Resource Group

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Cannot delete VM and Resource Group

TJ Walia 20

I am getting an error while trying to delete my VM resource Group and resources.

Have been trying for the past 3 days.

Error: Cannot proceed with operation because resource /subscriptions/a331bec7-55e6-888888888888/resourceGroups/MigrationVM_group/providers/Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/MigrationVM-ip used by resource /subscriptions/a331bec7-55e6-888888888888/resourceGroups/MigrationVM_group/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/migrationvm69 is not in Succeeded state. Resource is in Failed state and the last operation that updated/is updating the resource is DeletePublicIpAddressOperation.

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Manu Philip 20,651 MVP Volunteer Moderator

Hi TJ Walia

The issue that you are facing arises, when resource removal is not followed correctly as recommended Microsoft.

Here, the error message says that one of the Public IP addresses is still in use there for the network interface is not able to delete. You can try the following Force deletion way from PowerShell

Remove-AzPublicIpAddress -Name MigrationVM-ip-ResourceGroupNameMigrationVM_group -Force

If it is able to remove the public address successfully with the above command, resource deletion will work smoothly!

Hope this helps.

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TJ Walia 20 Reputation points

2025-02-22T23:01:57.9533333+00:00

Thank you! Worked well. Had to change the command for the CLI instead of PowerShell - but did well.
TJ Walia 20 Reputation points

2025-02-23T02:37:37.8066667+00:00

New error. 2 of the resources got deleted and we're left with the VM and OS Disk.

Error:

An error occurred while updating associated resources for virtual machine 'MigrationVM'. To delete the virtual machine without updating associated resources first, try again without updating any associated resource deletion states. Error: 'Operation 'Update VM' is not allowed on VM 'MigrationVM' since the VM is marked for deletion. You can only retry the Delete operation (or wait for an ongoing one to complete).'

It's been several hours in this state.
Manu Philip 20,651 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2025-02-23T03:39:43.0933333+00:00

I think, similar way you deleted the public IP, other resources also need to be deleted. But make sure that, no azure resources are attached to the VM. For example, check if there is a network card associated with the VM or a disk. If so, delete those resources and finally delete the VM.

Some example commands are as below:

$VirtualMachine = Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName 'rg' -Name 'vmname'

$DataDisks = $VirtualMachine.StorageProfile.DataDisks

foreach ( $Disk in $DataDisks ){ Get-AzDisk -DiskName $Disk.Name | Remove-AzDisk -Force }

Get-AzNetworkInterface | where-object { $_.VirtualMachine -eq $null } | ft name

Get-AzNetworkInterface | where-object { $_.VirtualMachine -eq $null } | Remove-AzNetworkInterface -Force

The below cli command can force delete the VM

az vm delete --resource-group MigrationVM_group --name MigrationVM --force-deletion none

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