Dell EMC PowerProtect DDVE in the Azure Cloud 7.8 Installation and Administration Guide

Power control

We recommend that you use DDOS interfaces to power-off or reboot the DDVE instance. If you power-off the virtual machine using the Azure interface, it might not shut down cleanly.

By Azure platform design, using the guest OS from inside Azure to shut down the system leaves the virtual machine in Stopped status. To ensure that the DDVE instance is Deallocated (Stopped), do the following:

1. From the DDOS interface, power off the DDVE instance.
2. Click the Stop button in the Azure Portal or execute stop-azvm in the Powershell command line.