Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack
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(Re)starting an Azure Stack environment

As the Azure Stack integrated system is a set of VMs, we need to talk about what to do when restarting the entire environment. By default, each VM is set to go into saved mode when the environment is being shut down. In general, this should not be a problem because when the environment is restarting, the VMs should recover from the saved mode, too. If there are any delays with the VMs starting, the environment may run into issues and since a complete restart is not always a good idea, the following boot order is the best practice. Between each of these, there should be a delay of 60 seconds. The AD domain controller itself should reboot with the host machine:

  • AzS-BGPNAT01
  • AzS-NC01
  • AzS-SLB01
  • AzS-Gwy01
  • AzS-SQL01
  • AzS-ADFS01
  • AzS-CA01
  • AzS-ACS01
  • AzS-WAS01
  • AzS-WASP01
  • AzS-Xrp01
  • AzS-ERCS01

The shutdown sequence is the other way round.

If you want to make it easy for yourself, I would prefer to set up a PowerShell script for shutting down or restarting the VMs. Thanks to Daniel Neumann (TSP Microsoft Germany), there is a good script available on his blog at http://www.danielstechblog.info/shutdown-and-startup-order-for-the-microsoft-azure-stack-tp2-vms/.