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On 31 August 2024, we'll retire Basic and Standard A-series VMs. Before that date, you'll need to migrate your workloads to Av2-series VMs, which provide more memory per vCPU and faster storage on solid-state drives (SSDs). If you have a question, please post it in this thread.
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I received this Email although I don't have any VMs. I do have Cloud Services.
Do I need to take any action or was this email sent in error?
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@ AliAlsalamiMINDTREELIMITED-1437 Do you have Azure Cloud Services Classic? If yes, you may have received it for that as described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/530008/retirement-announcement-migrate-your-cloud-service.html
Please check and let me know if you have further questions. Thanks.
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The only VM we have in our subscription that uses anything like an A series has a size defined in the portal as:
Standard A2 v2 (2 vcpus, 4 GiB memory)
I think this is already an Av2-series size?
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I also received the same alert for VMs which are already on A2 v2. Can you plesae confirm that we don't need to migrate these VMs?
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I got this notification but I'm not sure which tenant it applies to, and a quick scan of my tenants didn't find any AV1 VM's.
The email notification did include a subscription ID. How do I convert a subscription ID to a tenant ID so I can figure out which tenant to login to in order to investigate further?
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I also received the same alert for VMs which are already on A4 v2. Can you plesae confirm that we don't need to migrate these VMs?
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We have received the notice, but it is also not clear whether any resources need to be migrated.
We have a couple of VMs of size:
Also, we have the following App Service plans:
Can someone please let me know if any of these must be migrated?
It is not clear whether App Service plans are affected nor how these correlate to VM sizes.
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The only VMs I have are B2ms. They certainly aren't A series and I don't see the word "Basic" in their descriptions, yet the email says "You're receiving this email because you use Basic or Standard A-series virtual machines (VMs)." What's the deal?
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Does Microsoft really need to waste my time by blasting out these kinds of messages when they don't apply to anything I have deployed in my subscription?
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I got this notice and my VMs have the following sizes:
Standard_B2s
Standard_D2s_v3
I'm assuming I'm all set and this notice was sent in error?
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This email is extremely ambiguous.
We have 2 VMs that are already on Av2 series. Do we need to migrate or not?!
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I received this email, but when I went to check there is no series listed on my VMs, and I can't seem to find a straight answer as to how to check which series our VM is using. So how do we verify this?
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I think this alert is misleading people due to its wording. If I'm not mistaken, any vm can be set to Basic or Standard when deploying one, regardless of class. I'm reading this to apply only to any A1 series VMs, whether they are Basic or Standard.
With that said I have no A1 series VMs that I can find anywhere in my environments but the alert clearly states that I do.
Per one of the answer comments below, it appears this went to all customers. MS needs to re-word these notices if it's going to send to all customers and say "if you use", not "you use".
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Hi Team,
I got the same alert and I am using below configuration.
When I want to re-size I see the below versions so, please let me know which version I need to use from the below.
Learn more from this migration document.
If you have any additional queries regarding this retirement, please use comments on this thread to ask your specific queries and we will try our best to answer those queries. Thank you
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Hello,
The thing is the announcement, nor the page @ https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/blob/main/articles/virtual-machines/av1-series-retirement.md , give any instruction on how to identify such VMs.
Moreover, it appears (cf. messages from others) that subscription containing no such VMs were targeted in the campaign. On our side, we only have those sizes
And it doesn't seem to match the "Basic and Standard A-series VMs" from the email, even though, the email states "You're receiving this email because you use Basic or Standard A-series virtual machines (VMs)."
Bonus: the survey link in said email is broken : /
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I guess I am old, i cannot find the document.
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NA...
Does this alos apply to our Standard B2s and B4ms, B8ms, basically anything tha tlists as Standard regardless of what follows after the word Standard?
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Yea rather poor information release by Microsoft on this retirement.
Here are the VM's that I have I do not believe that any are AV1 series machines, could someone from MS please validate, this migration is giving me heart burn. Want to ensure a migration is required.
Double entry sorry
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I have VM as follows:
Operating system = Windows (Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter)
Size = Standard A1 (1ycpu, 1.75 GiB menory)
VM Generation = V1
VM architecture = x64
This sounds like it is going to be a problem Right?