Turns out the VM role in Azure is in Beta and shouldn't be used for anything but the most trivial sites. Doesn't say that anywhere during the sign up procedure or when MS takes your credit card details. Lesson learned.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Sunday, 2 September 2012 5:38 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Windows Azure VM issues If there was a problem with the page file (e.g. it couldn't be accessed) then the server would blue screen (KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR or similar bugcheck). What's the event details you are seeing? (If you open the event, there's a "copy" button you can use to copy all the event details out to clipboard) Generally, if the OS is shutdown gracefully it doesn't have any capacity to power itself back on. You need the virtualisation software (or your UPS if you have a physical machine) to power the machine back on. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Oxby Sent: Friday, 31 August 2012 10:07 AM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Windows Azure VM issues Hi All We here at work have just gone down the Azure path to host, what will be a fairly high traffic site. We've gone the VM route and it's been a bit problematic. I could use some advice, or links to advice if anyone has some. Issue : Server shutdown and didn't reboot at 3am. Nice. Event log says disk error (I can get the actual number/message if need) and the services all started to shut down, until the server switched off. We think it's because the page file has been located (by default) on the temporary storage drive, not the c:drive. Is there a good reason why it's been placed on the d:? Can we move it? Is this the issue? And Why didn't the server reboot automagically? What setting have we missed that gets it to restart itself? It's fairly vanilla server, with 2 websites and the smtp service running. Thanks for your help Nick
