{"id":4362,"date":"2017-05-08T10:33:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T08:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2017-06-06T19:17:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T17:17:34","slug":"upload-vhd-and-create-new-vm-with-managed-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/?p=4362","title":{"rendered":"Upload VHD and create new VM with managed disk"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post I would like to share scripts and steps I used to create a new Azure VM with managed disks based on a uploaded Hyper-V VHD file. There is a number of things to do before uploading the VHD to Azure. Microsoft Docs has a good checklist here<\/a> with steps how-to prepare a Windows VM to be uploaded to Azure. Some of the most important things to think about is that the disk must have a fixed size, be in VHD format and the VM must be generation 1. It is also recommended to enable RDP (\u00f0\u0178\u02dc\u0160) and install the Azure VM Agent<\/a>. The overall steps are<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a Azure storage account<\/li>\n
  2. Prepare the server according to the link above<\/li>\n
  3. Export the disk in VHD format with fixed size<\/li>\n
  4. Build a new VM with the exported disk. This is not required, but can be a good thing to do just to verify that the exported VHD file works before uploaded to Azure<\/li>\n
  5. Upload the VHD file<\/li>\n
  6. Create a new VM based on the VHD file<\/li>\n
  7. Connect to the new VM and verify everything works<\/li>\n
  8. Delete the uploaded VHD file<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The following figure show the storage account configuration were the VHD file is stored<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>The following image show the upload process of the VHD file… the last image show creation of the new VM<\/p>\n

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    The script I used to upload the VHD file<\/p>\n

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    Login-AzureRmAccount -SubscriptionId 9asd3a0-aaaaa-4a1c-85ea-4d11111110be5<\/div>\n
    $localfolderpath = “C:\\Export”
    \n$vhdfilename = “LND-SRV-1535-c.vhd”
    \n$rgName = “migration-rg”
    \n$storageaccount = “https:\/\/migration004.blob.core.windows.net\/upload\/”<\/div>\n
    $localpath = $localfolderpath + “\\” + $vhdfilename
    \n$urlOfUploadedImageVhd = $storageaccount + $vhdfilename
    \nAdd-AzureRmVhd -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Destination $urlOfUploadedImageVhd -LocalFilePath $localpath -OverWrite<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    The script I used to create the new VM. Note that the script connects the new VM to the first subnet on a VNET called CONTOSO-VNET-PRODUCTION. Also note that the size of the VM is set to Standard_A2.<\/p>\n

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    Login-AzureRmAccount -SubscriptionId 9asd3a0-aaaaa-4a1c-85ea-4d11111110be5<\/div>\n
    $vmName = “LND-SRV-1535”
    \n$location = “West Europe”
    \n$rgName = “migration-rg”
    \n$vhdfile = “LND-SRV-1535-c”
    \n$vhdsize = “25”
    \n$sourceVHD = “https:\/\/migration004.blob.core.windows.net\/upload\/” + $vhdfile + “.vhd”<\/div>\n
    ### Create new managed disk based on the uploaded VHD file
    \n$manageddisk = New-AzureRmDisk -DiskName $vhdfile -Disk (New-AzureRmDiskConfig -AccountType StandardLRS -Location $location -CreateOption Import -SourceUri $sourceVHD -OsType Windows -DiskSizeGB $vhdsize) -ResourceGroupName $rgName<\/div>\n
    ### Set VM Size
    \n$vmConfig = New-AzureRmVMConfig -VMName $vmName -VMSize “Standard_A2”<\/div>\n
    ### Get network for new VM
    \n$vnet = Get-AzureRMVirtualNetwork -Name CONTOSO-VNET-PRODUCTION -ResourceGroupName CONTOSO-RG-NETWORKING
    \n$ipName = $vmName + “-pip”
    \n$pip = New-AzureRmPublicIpAddress -Name $ipName -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Location $location -AllocationMethod Dynamic
    \n$nicName = $vmName + “-nic1”
    \n$nic = New-AzureRmNetworkInterface -Name $nicName -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Location $location -SubnetId $vnet.Subnets[0].Id -PublicIpAddressId $pip.Id
    \n$vm = Add-AzureRmVMNetworkInterface -VM $vmConfig -Id $nic.Id<\/div>\n
    ### Set disk
    \n$vm = Set-AzureRmVMOSDisk -Name $manageddisk.Name -ManagedDiskId $manageddisk.Id -CreateOption Attach -vm $vm -Windows<\/div>\n
    ### Create the new VM
    \nNew-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Location $location -VM $vm<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
    <\/div>\n
    Once the second script is completed, the resource group contains a VM, a public IP address, a network adapter and the managed disk. In this example the resource group also contains the storage account.<\/div>\n

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    In this post I would like to share scripts and steps I used to create a new Azure VM with managed disks based on a uploaded Hyper-V VHD file. There is a number of things to do before uploading the VHD to Azure. Microsoft Docs has a good checklist here with steps how-to prepare a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[64,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}