Redeploying VMs

There might be occasions when you experience some difficulties in working with VMs and identify that certain services are not functioning as expected, such as remote desktop connections using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or other types of services. In these circumstances, you may find that redeploying a VM will help. The redeployment will result in your VM moving to a new node within the Azure infrastructure. This will also result in the VM shutting down during the move and restarting on the new node. All your configurations and associated resources will still be retained.

Note

When you redeploy a VM, take note that the dynamic IP address assigned to your VM will be updated, and your temporary disk data will be lost.

In the following exercises, you will explore redeploying your VMs through the Azure portal and through PowerShell.

Exercise 13.6: Redeploying VMs

In this exercise, you will redeploy your VM using the Azure portal by completing the following...