Delete VM with all associated resources
Deleting a VM is a lot of click work. I have to manually delete the associated Network interface, Network security group, Public IP address. And then, from the associated storage account, I have to drill down into the VHD container in the right Blob to delete the associated .vhd and .status files.
Also, I have to do it in the right order, because there are dependencies between the various objects. If not, it fails, and I get a big fat pink error.
Also, the overview list does not refresh after the 'success' notification is posted, so I sit there guessing which of the resources I already deleted and which I didn't.
It all feels boring, not fun and tedious!
Joost Molenaar
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AdminAzure IaaS Engineering Team
(Azure IaaS Engineering Team, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure)
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This is still coming. The work is being completed now and we will be able to expose it in a few months.
71 comments
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Alex van der Waal
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Is this still coming? @Azure IaaS Engineering Team
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Nate
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A workaround using a PowerShell script is published at https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/53980.azure-delete-vm-and-all-associated-resources-using-powershell-script.aspx.
In the document Microsoft states, "Also, in a large infrastructure, identifying the resources which were the part of the VM is very difficult and [sic] to delete manually."
If Microsoft admits that this task is "very difficult", why has this request been sitting on the back burner for so long?
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Steve Griffith
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Any update here?
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Anonymous
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Was there previously a feature that let you select/unselect the associated resources when deleting a vm? Maybe this was in a preview I saw or in a dream.. or maybe a feature from deleting a different type of resource.
It would be great to have this option though when deleting a vm. just checkmark yes/no to delete the associated disk, nic, ip address, etc.
Ran into issue today with this when deleting a v1 set of resources that have same machine names as v2 of those resources. a pain picking through the right and wrong disk, nic, ip to delete without blowing something up.
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Anonymous
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Has been more than a few months. When is this happening?
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Christian Casteel
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Any progress on this?
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Anonymous
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May I suggest a workaround: Try out terraform:
1) Infrastructure as a Code
2) You can set up CI/CD Pipelines and review changes to VM or other infrastructure
3) terraform code will handle the dependencies -
Anonymous
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More that one year now, no updated.
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Udi
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please implement this as soon as you can
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Alvin
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Is there any update on the status of this?
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Ross Worth
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Please can the priority of this be increased, the current approaches are really substandard
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Luke Lloyd
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"This is still coming. The work is being completed now and we will be able to expose it in a few months". That was back in June 2019, a year ago! Come on MS :(
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Hx
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I inherited an azure environment from a previous engineer and I have to do a lot of housekeeping, we're talking about 50+ VMs that i need to purge with every associated resources. It's very painful to do!
Come on Microsoft. Just give us that this basic but essential option. it's 2020 already!
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wtf
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how the **** does this take 5 years to implement
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Peter Strein
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Any update on this? This would be a great feature both in the Portal, APIs, and SDKs.
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Anonymous
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I had the same problem with this process, to complex and nothing intuitive. A simples process for deleting a VM will be very welcome.
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Tomasz Lisowski
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Any update? This feature would really help me.
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Rick Pohl
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One reason we started pulling back from azure. too much work to do simple tasks...
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Waleed Raslan
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While waiting for this feature to land in the Azure Portal, there is an automated solution to selectively clean up VMs and all attached resources on subscription or resource group level based on tagging.
This can be directly imported into Azure Automation runbooks from the Azure Automation gallery:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Parallel-complete-removal-718d6dd5CAUTION: This solution automatically removes resources from Azure subscriptions so it is not intended to be used on production subscriptions, the author is not responsible for any misuse of this solution. You need to confirm you fully understand that this solution will remove resources from your subscription before execution
Azure VM Resources Saver removes below VM resources from Azure subscriptions in parallel using Microsoft PowerShell Workflow technology:
1- Any VM not tagged with one of the following tags in 'untagged' removal mode: {Keep, keep, KEEP, do not remove}Or Any VM tagged with one of the following tags in 'tagged' removal mode: {Remove, remove, REMOVE}.
2- Boot diagnostics storage container of the removed VMs
3- All NICs associated with the removed VMs
4- All Public IPs associated with the removed VMs
5- All managed and unmanaged OS disks of the removed VMs with status blobs of the unmanaged OS disks
6- All managed and unmanaged data disks attached to the removed VMsVM resources preserved:
1- Network Security Group (NSG)
2- Virtual Network (VNET)
3- Resource group
4- Storage accounts of boot diagnostics and unmanaged disksCompatibility:
Tested on Azure Automation with AzureRM modules updated to latest available versions as of this date 26.02.2019
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PeppaAlly
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It is fun to read all the comments. Making me forget the pain of deleting the resource.