My Azure Virtual Machine Won’t Start

To benefit from elasticity on Microsoft Azure, we regularly leverage strategies that utilize Azure Automation to shut down and de-allocate Virtual Machines when they are not needed.

This strategy is excellent and usually works on pretty well. Due to Azure’s highly dynamic nature, the allocation of Large Virtual Machines can sometimes pose a challenge in the form of “The server encountered an internal error. Please retry the request.” or “Failed to produce an allocation for the service.“.