Hybrid-Infrastructure - Jan 13, 2023

“Classic” Azure Virtual Machines to be fully retired - urgent action required

by Julian Waite

Virtual Machines provisioned using the old Azure Service Manager control plane are to be fully retired on the 1st March 2023. Any customers that have Virtual Machines using the platform that cannot be decommissioned need to prepare for migration to the Azure Resource Manager platform as soon as possible.

On 1st March 2023, customers will no longer be able to start IaaS VMs by using ASM. Any that are still running or allocated will be stopped and deallocated.

Azure Resource Manager has been the control plane within Azure for several years now. Over 90% of IaaS VMs are deployed using this method and it gives a host of benefits.

Benefits include:

Independent lifecycle management of compute, storage and networking
Template based deployment to simplify repeatable tasks
Apply Access Control to give more granular governance and access
Apply your own tagging scheme for logical organisation and more intelligent insight to cost management and billing

All the information about the retirement and the steps to take for successful migration can be found on the Microsoft Learn website: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/classic-vm-deprecation

Bechtle UK have Cloud Specialist partners that can provide professional services in this area which can help when there is limited time to move critical workload. If you have any queries about the process, please contact your account manager.

Written by

Julian Waite

Infrastructure Service Consultant

E-Mail: julian.waite@bechtle.com

This post was published on Jan 13, 2023.

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