Azure Virtual machines slow startup

Question

I have 2 azure vm's created, 1 windows server 2012 r2, and 1 Ubuntu 14. It takes both those vm's approximately 5 minutes to startup.

Is there a way I can speed up the process?

I don't need the vm's running continuously, I prefer to start/stop, as per need.

Answer 1

There are no steps you can take to speed up the VM start. Resources must be allocated and the VM provisioned.

What I can recommend is setting up a script to auto start / stop your VM's based on a schedule. For example, if you are using them in a class room environment you can set it up so that they start early (6am?) and shut down each day by 5pm.

You can find some more information about this here.