Not too long ago in the past I had really interesting afternoon. It wasn’t interesting because I had 3 Failover Clusters that exploded, that’s just horrible, it was interesting because they exploded exactly 40 minutes apart. While I do believe in coincidences, that was just way too precise to be a random occurrence. After looking into it, and engaging once more Microsoft Premier Support, I was eventually able to find the reason.
It turns out that patching Azure Hosts where your VMs are running can cause some bloodcurdling things to happen.
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