In Azure, you can configure the auto shutdown while creating a new virtual machine or enable it on existing VM’s. The entire process of auto-shutdown is done through Azure Portal.
In my testing, the auto-shutdown feature worked very well, and I got emails from Microsoft Azure just 30 minutes before the Virtual Machines were about to shut down.
Why turn off VM Auto-Shutdown in Azure?
So, if auto-shutdown is such a useful feature, then why turn off this feature in Azure ?. Here are some reasons why one would turn off auto-shutdown in Azure (IMO).
- Your organization may want the virtual machines to be online for all the time.
- You could be running critical roles on these VMs and the VM’s need to be online for serving users.
- With Auto-Shudown enabled, you have to download the new RDP file every day if you want to connect to the Azure VM.
Steps to Turn Off Auto-Shutdown of Azure VM
If you have enabled auto-shutdown on Azure VM, you can disable or turn off this feature with following steps.
- Sign-in to the Azure Portal.
- Now select Virtual Machines blade. You should now see all the hosted virtual machines in Azure.
- Select an Azure VM that is enabled with auto shutdown feature.
- Select Capabilities > Auto-shutdown and turn off the Auto-Shutdown feature.
Now let me show you some screenshots that should help you turn off Auto-Shutdown of Azure VM. Go to your VM blade in Azure portal.
Select the virtual machine for which you want to turn off the auto-shutdown feature. Select the Capabilities tab and now select Auto-shutdown.
The enabled is set to On which means the auto-shutdown feature is enabled on the virtual machine.
To turn off the auto shutdown, set Enabled to Off. The other settings such scheduled shutdown, time zone and auto-shutdown notification options are disabled once you turn off auto-shutdown. Finally click Save and with these steps, you turn-off auto shutdown feature for virtual machine in Azure Portal.
