Hello experts :-)
I have a few virtual machines with 2008R2 and we got the extension feature that allows us to do the migration part as late as the 3rd of November if I'm not mistaken.
Most of them we can do fine, but there is a specific machine we don't want to lose the public IP for.
I know that the IP is held by the cloud service related to the VM, but I believe that when the cloud service detects there is not a VM attached to it, it can lose it's ip. This situation can happen if we shutdown a machine first and we start up the new one. I hope I explained the situation well.
So the question is, how long does it take for the cloud service to detect that it does not have anything running and so it releases the IP?
Thank you very much.