vm repaire restore fails on zone movelemnt

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vm repaire restore fails on zone movelemnt

Syd Weinstein 5

had to deal with a linux kernal patch failure, and need a repair vm. Can build one just fine, the repair says it worked (and I also tried doing the same manually in the shell)

Alas the command az vm repair restore --verbose -g (redacted) -n (redacted) fails with

ERROR: (BadRequest) Operation 'Enabling zone movement' is not supported on the resource 'VM as its not enabled for the region/ subscription.'.

Code: BadRequest

Message: Operation 'Enabling zone movement' is not supported on the resource 'VM as its not enabled for the region/ subscription.'.

Repair restore failed. If the restore command fails at retry, please rerun the repair process from 'az vm repair create'.

{

"error_message": "ERROR: (BadRequest) Operation 'Enabling zone movement' is not supported on the resource 'VM as its not enabled for the region/ subscription.'.\nCode: BadRequest\nMessage: Operation 'Enabling zone movement' is not supported on the resource 'VM as its not enabled for the region/ subscription.'.\n",

"message": "Repair restore failed. If the restore command fails at retry, please rerun the repair process from 'az vm repair create'.",

"status": "ERROR"

}

The main disk of the original VM is LRS, not ZRS, what do I do to build a repair VM I can restore?

Manasa Akula 690 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-06-24T17:59:54.47+00:00
Hi @Syd Weinstein

Thank you for reaching out to us on Microsoft Q&A platform.

To further investigate the az vm repair restore failure, could you please share the below information.

Azure region and Availability Zone of the impacted VM.

Output of:

az version

Whether the command was run from Azure Cloud Shell or a local machine.

Exact command used to create the repair VM.

Storage SKU of both the original OS disk and repaired disk.

Confirmation whether the repaired disk is detached from the repair VM.

Whether the VM/disk uses encryption, CMK, or Disk Encryption Set.

Full debug output of the failed command:

az vm repair restore \ --resource-group <ResourceGroupName> \ --name <OriginalVMName> \ --debug

Brief details of the Linux kernel repair steps performed.

If the restore continues to fail with the same zone movement error, we can proceed with the supported manual OS disk swap approach using the repaired managed disk.

I’d appreciate hearing back from you.
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2026-07-08T12:23:41.7033333+00:00

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Manasa Akula 690 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-06-24T17:59:54.47+00:00

Hi @Syd Weinstein

Thank you for reaching out to us on Microsoft Q&A platform.

To further investigate the az vm repair restore failure, could you please share the below information.

Azure region and Availability Zone of the impacted VM.

Output of:

az version

Whether the command was run from Azure Cloud Shell or a local machine.

Exact command used to create the repair VM.

Storage SKU of both the original OS disk and repaired disk.

Confirmation whether the repaired disk is detached from the repair VM.

Whether the VM/disk uses encryption, CMK, or Disk Encryption Set.

Full debug output of the failed command:

az vm repair restore \ --resource-group <ResourceGroupName> \ --name <OriginalVMName> \ --debug

Brief details of the Linux kernel repair steps performed.

If the restore continues to fail with the same zone movement error, we can proceed with the supported manual OS disk swap approach using the repaired managed disk.

I’d appreciate hearing back from you.
Anusree Nashetty 6,555 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-07-08T12:23:41.7033333+00:00

Hello Syd Weinstein,

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Answer 1

hi Syd Weinstein & thx for sharing urs issue here at Q&A portal,

az vm repair restore is hitting a zone-move path that isn’t supported for that VM/region/subscription.

The LRS disk itself is prob not the real issue. More likely the repair VM was created w/ a different zone setting than the original VM, or the CLI restore flow is trying to enable zone movement while swapping the OS disk back.

don’t use repair restore. Do the restore manually by swapping the repaired OS disk back onto the original VM.

Stop the original VM, detach the repaired OS disk from the repair VM, then use it as the OS disk for the original VM. Make sure the disk is in the same region and compatible zone setup as the original VM. If the original VM is non-zonal, use a non-zonal disk or repair VM. If it’s zonal, keep everything in the same zone.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/virtual-machines/linux/repair-linux-vm-using-azure-virtual-machine-repair-commands

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/os-disk-swap

create the repair VM in the same region/zone pattern as the source VM. Avoid letting the repair tool pick a zone if the original VM isn’t zonal. That’s prob what triggers the Enabling zone movement error. If manual OS disk swap also fails w/ zone movement, open a VM support case w/ the VM resource ID, disk IDs, region, zone value for both VMs/disks, and the CLI debug output. But yeah, safest path rn is manual disk swap, not retrying the repair restore loop.

rgds,

Alex

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Manasa Akula 690 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-06-25T19:09:35.7233333+00:00

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