I know that when running a role in Azure, the VM can be recycled any time (mainly either because you had an uncaught exception or because MS needs to apply an OS update).
My question is, after the recycle, will your role be re-started in the same VM?
I need to run some security tools that use config files generated from the host hardware signature ; so when deploying to a ‘new’ VM, the tools won’t run anymore…
Any clue ? Thanks in advance!
Thomas
It depends. when you manually recycle you get the same machine back, but should not rely on that. The VM may be recycled for you due to a catastrophic hardware failure (such as disk failure), in which case you won’t see that machine again!