Azure virtual machine in stopped state and can't start

Question

I have a Azure VM that I created manually and deployed some services on it. Now all the sudden it is in a stopped state and I can't start it anymore. Below is the error message that I get when I try to start it.

Failed to start virtual machine Failed to start the virtual machine 'xxxxxxxxx'. De bewerking d329ae99fc74571693e4e5590ad38ef4 is mislukt: Cannot perform the operation on a stopped deployment..

I didn't do any deployment. The machine was installed manually. Please tell me this can be recovered since a lot of hours went into this. Does anyone know how to solve this?

Answer 1

I encountered this recently and found it was due to shutting down multiple VM's via the cloud service shutdown. This puts them in a shutdown state but does not deallocate them.

Portal solution: Go to the Cloud Services from menu > Click the name of the group there > Click start.

This takes them into an online state ready for you to connect (once they've booted of course).