reboots

Back a few years ago it was not uncommon to see a requirement for VMs to be rebooted when maintenance to apply updates to the underlying host was required, every few months. Fortunately this is now mostly a thing of the past, with most updates now being applied using Azure’s in place upgrade process which just pauses for a few seconds while the VM whilst the host is updated. Up until recently I had not seen a maintenance window that require VM reboots for over a year.