I've been running into issues with my Development VM for the last couple hours.
I usually start up the VM in the morning, remote to the server using Remote Desktop, use it throughout the day, then log off and shut it down before leaving for the day. I've been successfully doing this for about 2 months. It's a Win Server 2008 R2 Large size server.
This morning, I went to fire it up and it failed with a non-descriptive VM failed to start error. I tried on and off four an hour or two to restart the VM using the console and finally it started. I used the VM for about an hour or so and then my Remote Desktop session disconnected and wasn't available to reconnect. According to the Azure console, the server is still in a "Running" state.
I've been using the console for the last 2-3 hrs to try to either Shut Down or Restart the VM but both result in errors "The Server encountered an internal error. Please retry the request." I have attempted to restart and shut down through PowerShell and Visual Studio and have received similar errors.
I figured my last ditch was to try to stop the Cloud Service because this may force the VM to close, but this resulted in another error. "Could not shut down the virtual machine <vm name> in cloud service <service name>
Some interesting things I've noticed is the fact that monitoring via the console's dashboard has stopped since the time the Remote Desktop disconnection as well as when trying to shut down the instance on the cloud service "Instances" tab, the instance says "Running" "Not all role instances are ready." "1 Instance: Stopping".
I would like to know if anyone has any ideas as to how I can force this VM to shut down/restart?
Thanks.