Migrate vm and storage

Question

I would like to know if my VMs and storage will be affected by any of these migrations:

• Migrate retiring Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) to latest-generation VMs before November 15, 2028
• Migrate Azure general-purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts to general-purpose v2 (GPv2) before October 13, 2026

I have a vm Standard B1s (1 vcpu, 1 GiB de memoria) and LRS de SSD prémium

Answer 1

Hello @Ruben Perez,

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

Azure Virtual Machine Migration (before November 15, 2028) Your VM, Standard B1s (1 vCPU, 1 GiB memory), is part of the B-series burstable VMs in the current-generation lineup. These SKUs are not among the retiring VM families, so no migration is needed. You can keep using your B1s VM as usual. If you would like to upgrade to Standard_B2ts_v2, you can do so at the same price.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/azure-vms-no-temp-disk#how-do-i-migrate-from-a-vm-size-with-local-temp-disk-to-a-vm-size-with-no-local-temp-disk---

Azure Storage Migration (before October 13, 2026) The retirement notice applies only to General Purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts. Since you mentioned using LRS Premium SSD, your storage account is most likely GPv2 or Premium, which are not affected. To confirm this in the Azure portal:

Go to your Storage account → Configuration

Check the Account Kind field

1. If it shows StorageV2 (general-purpose v2) or Premium, no action is needed.
2. If it shows Storage (general-purpose v1), plan to migrate to GPv2 before October 13, 2026.

Please check your account type to be sure, but based on your information, your setup shouldn’t be affected by either migration notice.

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Answer 2

Hi Ruben,

Since you have Standard_B1s VM, you will need to migrate it to a VM size that isn't retiring before November 15, 2028 (over 3 years from now). For example, you could migrate it to Standard_B2ts_v2 which should be same price, RAM, and with 2 vCPUs instead of 1.

When moving from Standard_B1s to Standard_B2ts_v2 you need to deal with the fact that B2ts_v2 does not have temporary disk, so you will need to take snapshot, create new VM from it, and make any needed adjustments (like moving paging file) to account for not having temporary disk.

How do I migrate from a VM size with local temp disk to a VM size with no local temp disk?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/azure-vms-no-temp-disk#how-do-i-migrate-from-a-vm-size-with-local-temp-disk-to-a-vm-size-with-no-local-temp-disk---

Your Premium SSD LRS disk is unaffected.

In regards to your storage accounts, you need to check and see if you have any GPv1 accounts. To do this you may navigate to below link in Azure portal to see list of your accounts:

https://portal.azure.com/#view/Microsoft_Azure_StorageHub/StorageHub.MenuView/~/StorageAccountsBrowse

Check for accounts with Kind: Storage since those are GPv1. You will need to update these to GPv2 before October 13, 2026. You can update by clicking on the storage account in the list, then clicking change next to Account kind, as shown below:

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Thanks.

-TP