Three of our VMs were shutdown last night at 8:37PM EST. I was able to manually restart the VMs, but there were significant issues with network connectivity for a 20 min period afterwards. Our other 7 VM's were unaffected.
System event logs record the shutdown events as 'Planned (other)' and being initiated by vmicsvc.exe without any further comment in the event.
The process C:\Windows\system32\vmicsvc.exe (EZAZWEB30) has initiated the shutdown of computer EZAZWEB30 on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: Other (Planned)
Reason Code: 0x80000000
Shutdown Type: shutdown
Comment:
I understand the need to recycle services in Azure, sometimes without warning, but I'd like to find out more information about why a complete shutdown occurred (without notification) and how we can be informed about the cause in the future.