This posting is ~4 years years old. You should keep this in mind. IT is a short living business. This information might be outdated.
To be honest: I’m lazy and I have a wife and two kids. Therefore I have to minimize the costs of my lab. I have a physical lab at the office and some VMs running on Microsoft Azure. Azure is nice, because I only have to pay what I really use. And because I’m only paying the actual use, I start the VMs only when I need them. Inspired by this very handy Azure VM wakeup & shutdown script, I decided to write my own script (yes, I invented a wheel again…). Very simple, nothing fancy. Feel free to use and modify the script according to your needs.
Patrick Terlisten
vcloudnine.de is the personal blog of Patrick Terlisten. Patrick has a strong focus on virtualization & cloud solutions, but also storage, networking, and IT infrastructure in general. He is a fan of Lean Management and agile methods, and practices continuous improvement whereever it is possible.
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Hi Patrick
By what method would I be able to make a .bat document that can duplicate a record from a sky blue server to my machine?
Regards
Priyanka
To learn how such Azure VM automation can be monitored and systematized, check out two blogs below:
VMs can be shutdown or scaled down on a schedule.
Shut-down Azure VMs on a schedule: http://cloudmonix.com/blog/how-to-automate-schedule-shutdowns-of-azure-vms/
Scale-down Azure VMs on a schedule: http://cloudmonix.com/blog/how-to-automate-scaling-of-azure-vms/