Windows – Hibernate Windows Azure VM (IAAS)

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I am a developer and use an Azure VM for my main development platform.
To save the company some money I thought I might shut it down at weekends etc. but often I have many programs etc open that I'd like to keep going.
I tried turning hibernation on, thinking I could hibernate and then shut down via portal (or script) but I got:

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg /hibernate on

Hibernation failed with the
following error: The request is not supported.

The following items are preventing hibernation on this system.
The system firmware does not support hibernation.

Is there anyway to achieve what I'm trying to do (save state but power down) on an Azure VM?

Best Answer

2 possible stop states of VM in Azure:

  • stopped (shutdown inside VM, billed)

  • stopped-deallocated (shutdown in portal, no bills)

Microsoft is working to make it clear.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/uspartner_ts2team/archive/2014/10/10/azure-virtual-machines-stopping-versus-stopping-deallocating.aspx

http://feedback.azure.com/forums/216843-virtual-machines/suggestions/6272098-stopped-vs-stopped-deallocated

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