If the current time falls within a shutdown period you’ve defined, the runbook will stop the VM if it is running, preventing any compute charges. For example, it can run once every hour, checking all the schedule tags it finds on your virtual machines or resource groups. The runbook is intended to run on a schedule in an Azure Automation account, with a configured subscription and associated access credentials. For example, you could tag a single VM or group of VMs to be shut down between the hours of 10:00 PM and 6:00 AM, all day on Saturdays and Sundays, and during specific days of the year, like December 25. You can implement multiple granular power schedules for your virtual machines using simple tag metadata in the Azure portal or through PowerShell. This runbook automates scheduled startup and shutdown of Azure virtual machines.
Microsoft Azure VM Power Scheduling, Simplified: SkyPlug SkyPlug is available in several plans, including a free personal edition.
It's called SkyPlug, and it offers many benefits beyond what you'll find in this runbook including: By popular demand and based on many feature requests, we've developed a fully-featured app for scheduling downtime for your Azure virtual machines. Hi there! We're humbled to have seen thousands of downloads of this runbook since its initial release.
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