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Deactivate FHIR server temporarily? #157

Closed joeflack4 closed 3 hours ago

joeflack4 commented 3 hours ago

Overview

While not in use, consider to deactivate.

Supposedly there is a way on Azure to deactivate a VM, not get billed for it, but be able to reactivate it and it retains its hard drive state, so new new setup is required.

Additional notes

Conversation w/ JH Azure infra team

Joe: > It would be great if we could "toggle" this VM off and get $0 or close to $0/mon billed for it. And then be able to toggle it back on if we need it. > But unfortunately this had some custom setup. Packages installed, multiple containers / processes manually set up to run, custom nginx, cronjobs. > And I don't think we've 100% fully documented that setup. > Is the only way to remove the monthly cost for this VM to delete it? > And then we lose all of that setup and have to redo it from scratch at some point in the future? Martin: > I believe if the VM uses a managed disk for the os/data, you can shut it down without losing data. If it is only using temporary storage, you will lose the data.

joeflack4 commented 3 hours ago

Right now this is not necessary. Will re-open if it becomes so.