VM stuck on Running (provisioning) after 3 days and 3 attempts at creating a new server

Question

We have created 2 virtual machines successfully, one is a domain controller and DNS server and the 2nd is a web server. We used Powershell scripts to achieve this.
We are trying to create a 3rd web server using the same powershell scripts as prevously, obviously though changing the service, server name and IP
addressing details but after 3 days of trying and 3 or 4 attempts the server sticks at Running (Provisioning)... then after over 24hrs displays Running (Provisioning timed out). Meanwhile my credit is almost depleted and I haven't yet got the 3rd running server!
This is our script,
New-AzureVMConfig -Name "Servername" -InstanceSize “Small” –Image “a699494373c04fc0bc8f2bb1389d6106__Win2K8R2SP1-Datacenter-201412.01-en.us-127GB.vhd”
| Set-AzureSubnet –SubnetNames “Subnet-1”| Add-AzureProvisioningConfig -Windows -AdminUsername “Adminuser” -Password “password” | New-AzureVM -ServiceName "Servicename" –ReservedIPName “IP002” -Location "North Europe" –VNetName “NorthEUVNet”
How do we solve this?
We are intending using the platform to host UAT servers for our customers but we will not able to do so if we cannot build servers in a realistic
time frame. By realistic I mean within 2 hours not 2 days then it fails!
Amazon Web Services EC2 here we come!

Answer 1

Hi,
Thanks for posting here.
Request you to provide the exact error message when you run this script.
Is this an image file(.vhd), have you sysprep the image.
Did you run sysprep with generalize before uploading the custom VHD?
Is an unattend.xml on the VHD itself, maybe in %windir%\Panther\Unattend.xml, that could be conflicting with the one on the provisioning ISO?
When the VM is provisioned, an ISO is attached with an unattend.xml that drives sysprep to do things like set the computer name and enable RDP.
Try with a different location other than North Europe for test purpose.
Also, try adding the VM using Management portal. Sometimes this would be even more easier to host a VM.
Hope this helps you.
Girish Prajwal