Microsoft HPC Pack Burst to Cloud Services is retiring on August 31st, 2024

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Microsoft HPC Pack Burst to Cloud Services is retiring on August 31st, 2024

Deprecation ID: 3043c23d-686d-45ae-acb0-eafeb6962b63
Deadline: Aug 31, 2024
Impacted Services:

• Azure Cloud Services

More information:

• Announcement
• Migration Guide

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

Microsoft HPC Pack product relies on Cloud services configuration for Bursting to Cloud Service feature. The dependent feature Cloud Service (classic) deployment model will be retired. Therefore, we will retire HPC Pack Burst to Cloud Services on 31 August 2024. Please transition to using HPC Pack Burst to Azure IaaS VM or Burst to Azure Batch service as soon as possible to keep the workload continuity.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Oct 07, 2022	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Aug 31, 2024	You will no longer be able to create or manage Azure Cloud service worker role instances with HPC Pack.

Impact

Microsoft HPC Pack Burst to Cloud Services is retiring on August 31st, 2024 and migration to HPC Pack Burst to Azure IaaS VM or Burst to Azure Batch service is required.

Required Action

A migration guide is provided here.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

Follow these steps to transition using HPC Pack Burst to Azure IaaS VM or Burst to Azure Batch service before 31 August 2024. After that, you will not be able to create or manage Azure Cloud service worker role instances with HPC Pack.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact Azure support (link).
• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).

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