VM stops randomly

Question

our VM stops randomly stops, it says "This virtual machine has been preempted. This low-priority virtual machine is being stopped and deallocated."
How can we stop this from happening? Where can we change the VM not to be "low-priority"??

Answer 1

This is a condition of low-priority VMs, although they are now known as spot VMs. Microsoft have the option to deallocate these where capacity is needed so they are really only useful for interruptible workloads.

There is no upgrade method for these so you would need to create a new VM as a 'Standard' virtual machine. You can snapshot your existing disks and create a new VM from these.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/snapshot-copy-managed-disk?tabs=portal
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/create-vm-specialized-portal