title: Azure VM: Adding a Reserved IP address to an existing VM
body: <p>What I have read so far on the web is that there is no way to add a reserved IP to an existing VM (unless I recreate the VM which I am trying to avoid). However, I have noticed that external IP of my VM and the cloud service is same.</p>
  
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  <li><p><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-networks-reserved-public-ip/">Reserved IP Addresses</a> page explains how to "To use a Reserved IP with Cloud Services". I have looked everywhere in the Azure Management Portal but couldn't find a configuration setting for Service Configuration Schema.</p></li>
  <li><p>I am using the Azure scheduler to turn-off the VMs at night and on the weekends. From the following I understand is that there is something that I need to write in the scheduler script to re-assign the Reserved IP when the VM starts in the morning. Did I get it right?</p>
  
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    <p>Shutdown VM - Previously, when all the Virtual Machine instances in a
    cloud service were moved to the Shutdown state (stop/deallocated), the
    public IP would be released and a new public IP would be assigned when
    one of the Virtual Machines instances was started. However, with this
    release, if the VM uses a Reserved IP, then the Reserved IP can be
    used when re-deploying the VMs.</p>
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  <p>P.S. Is Stack Overflow the best place to ask this sort of questions relating to Azure or shall I use Server Fault in the future? I have seen Azure questions in both websites.</p>