ProvisioningState/failed/ZonalAllocationFailed error on my virtual machine.

Question

I had set up a VM a week ago and set up my experiments. Now, I am unable to restart due to ProvisioningState/failed/ZonalAllocationFailed error on my virtual machine. Is there a lack of availability after a week now?

Thank you

Athindran

Answer 1

Hi Athindran Ramesh Kumar

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & hope you are doing well.

The ProvisioningState/failed/ZonalAllocationFailed error means Azure doesn’t have enough free capacity for the VM size you requested in that specific availability zone.

This can still happen even after waiting, because resource availability and demand change over time. Since availability zones are separate datacenters with their own resources, one zone may have capacity issues while another does not.

1. Try redeploying the VM after some time. Sometimes capacity frees up as other users stop VMs.
2. Change the VM size to one with more availability in the same region or zone.
3. If you are using an availability zone, try another zone in the same region, as it might have more capacity or try creating a new VM in another region and then move your disk or data to the new VM.
4. If the VM is critical and remains unavailable, you should detach the OS disk and attach it to a new temporary VM to recover data.

To troubleshoot Azure VM allocation failures (including ZonalAllocationFailed) with causes and workarounds: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/virtual-machines/windows/allocation-failure

Troubleshoot ZonalAllocationFailed, AllocationFailed, or OverconstrainedAllocationRequest error code : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/azure-kubernetes/create-upgrade-delete/error-code-zonalallocationfailed-allocationfailed

Regards

Himanshu