Azure Virtual Machine NV-series & NV_Promo SKU are retiring on 31 August 2023

[azure-deprecation-automation]

Azure Virtual Machine NV-series & NV_Promo SKU are retiring on 31 August 2023. (originally 31 August 2022)

Deadline: Aug 31, 2023
Impacted Services:

• Azure Virtual Machine

More information:

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/nvseries-and-nvpromo-azure-virtual-machines-will-be-retired-by-31-august-2022/ (announcement)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/nvseries-and-nv-promo-azure-virtual-machines-retirement-will-be-extended-to-31-august-2023/ (extension)
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/nv-series-retirement
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/nv-series-migration-guide

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

As Azure NVsv3 and NVv4 virtual machines have right sized VMs from entry level Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with GPU partitioned sizes to medium and high end VDI with better CPU/memory ratio, larger and faster local solid-state drives (SSDs), support for premium and ultra SSDs, and better cost/performance across a broad variety of visualization workloads, we’re retiring our NV-series Azure Virtual Machine sizes on 31 August 2022.>
After 31 August 2022, any remaining NV and NV_Promo size virtual machines subscriptions will be set to a deallocated state, will stop working, and will no longer incur billing charges.

Note: This VM size retirement only impacts the VM sizes in the NV and NV_Promo series. This retirement announcement does not impact the newer NVv3 and NVv4 series virtual machines.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Aug 19, 2021	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Aug 31, 2022	Original deprecation date, but deprecation was extended.
Extended Deprecation	Aug 31, 2023	VMs will be set to a deallocated state, will stop working, and will no longer incur billing charge.

Impact

VMs will be set to a deallocated state, will stop working, and will no longer incur billing charge.

Required Action

Use the official migration guide.

You will need to resize or deallocate your H-series virtual machines. We recommend migrating workloads from original H-series (inclusive of H-series promo) virtual machines to our newer offerings.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

We are retiring NV and NV_Promo VMs on 31 August 2022. All NV and NV_Promo VMs will need to be de-allocated by that date. For recommendations on which VMs to migrate your NV and NV_Promo workloads to or for the creation of net new VMs, please see this migration guide. Visit the Azure Virtual Machine pricing page for additional information.

⚠️ Deprecation is being extended to 31 August 2023, read more in the announcement here.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact the product group through email (email).
• Contact Azure support (link).

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[tomkerkhove]

Deprecation is being extended to 31 August 2023, read more in the announcement here.