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Jamshaid120
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Jan 29, 2023

How to avoid deletion of Storage/VM when managing Azure Test Drive?

I have a scenario where I have a cold instance enabled for an Azure Marketplace Test Drive. The ARM template is used to deploy the App. When I try the test drive, it creates a new VM, and after t...
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SatishBoddu
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Jan 29, 2023

Hello Jamshaid120 

 

What is the Test Drive Duration set for your Azure Test Drive?

 

        This is the number of hours the test drive will stay active. The test drive terminates automatically after this time period ends. The test drive service will automatically clean up these Resource Groups after a customer is finished with it. Ref

 

Did you try the 'Preview Offering' to test the customer experience?

 

    This will help in knowing the capabilities of your offer as per the instance selected.

 

 

Please comment in the below section to get more help on this matter and we are happy to help you further!

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Jamshaid120
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Jan 30, 2023

SatishBoddu 

Hi
Thanks for responding to my query.
I have tried Preview Offering and it works. The duration is set to 2 hours. After 2 hours, everything gets deleted as the Instance type is cold.
My question is that, is there any way I could get permanent storage that does not delete after two hours or any other such feasibility? So that, I don't need to deploy the docker container again and again when the test drive ends.
Or Hot instance is the only option to tackle this issue? And one more thing, I don't see the warm instance type in the configuration.

 

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    Jamshaid120
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    Feb 05, 2023
    SatishBoddu

    I have tried it using the HOT instance and the same issue exists. Could you please shed some light on it or any way I could talk directly to support?

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