Can't access Azure VM

Question

I was trying to change the network numbers address of my Virtual machine on Azure to be in same network rang as another Virtual machine on Azure pool, once I click save on network card, it freezes & became not accessible with Remote Desktop or any other way.

Please Help.

Answer 1

NEVER try to manually change the NIC. The NIC is still owned by the Windows Azure fabric and when you manually make changes, the fabric interprets it as an attempt to bypass its network security measure. You should be able to get access to the VM back by removing and re-adding the VM (when you remove it, be sure not to remove its disks then you can re-provision it from those same disks).

If you're trying to adjust network address spaces (subnets?), you may want to look at using an Azure virtual network to help group VMs together. While this still won't guarantee a fixed internal IP address, it will give you a degree of predictability.