I'm trying to evaluate Azure as a possible platform to move all our servers to, but it hasn't gone well. Alas, I'm in "Free Trial" mode so can't get technical support :(
I'm trying to create some VMs using the "OpenLogic 6.6" standard image. I originally created two through the GUI - one Basic_A1 and one Basic_A0. The Basic_A0 succeeded, but the other one never finished provisioning and never was available. I deleted it and tried again, with the same result.
I found out afterwards that I can't used Reserved IPs on a VM post-creation, so I killed both and started over. I finally got a powershell script to work to create them...however, now BOTH are just spinning in "Running (Provisioning)", where they've been for some time. I expect them to time out. Neither is reachable at the public IP either.
Are things just not working now?
Well, I never got it to work with the standard interface, but with the "preview" portal at portal.azure.com I was able to spin up two VMs fully, with reserved IPs, once I figured out all the things I needed to set up in the new interface to do what I wanted, it created the VMs fine. There was one case where it didn't seem to come up with the IPs it said it did, but a second reboot solved that.