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 nearly 2 decades of experience in IT, especially in the areas infrastructure, cloud, automation and industrialization. Patrick was selected as VMware vExpert (2014 - 2017), as well as PernixData PernixPro.
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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/