Moving an on-prem VM-based IFS environment (DB + Middleware) to Azure, mainly kept around for occasional reference use by a couple of Finance/Operations users — is it safe to power the VMs off outside business hours and scale down their assigned resources to cut costs, and are there any IFS-specific steps needed beyond that?

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Powering the VMs off and back on is fine as long as you shut down the IFS Middleware Server cleanly first — no other special steps are needed purely for a power cycle. For scaling down resources for a low-usage environment, make sure there's still enough memory for however many Managed Servers and whatever Heap memory you keep configured (as a rough guide, 2 Managed Servers at 4GB heap each plus 1GB for the Admin Server calls for at least 12-16GB of RAM with some margin) — for a genuinely low-usage reference environment, scaling down to a single Managed Server with a reduced Heap setting is a reasonable target. Changing Heap/memory settings requires a reconfiguration of the Middleware Server, so plan that change (and any resulting restart) for a proper maintenance window rather than doing it live.

Documentation-based answer. Confirm the product and release before applying it. This answer has not been verified in an IFS environment.

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