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jkuch_uw
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Oct 08, 2021

Azure Labs Services VMs appear in the web UI as still running even if they were shut down

I shut down an Azure Labs Services VM running Ubuntu using the Linux 'shutdown' command:

shutdown -h now

After a suitable passage of time, the VM appears to be gone and it no longer responds to SSH login attempts; however, the Azure Labs Services UI still shows it as running:

I also suspect that, though this VM has shut down, and its guest OS not running, that it is continuing to eat up quota hours despite being off.

 

My suspicion is based on the fact that I shut the VM down in this fashion a few days ago, and came back today to find all of my quota hours depleted, when I'm certain I wasn't logged in and using it for nearly that many hours.

 

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