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Snapshot in azure9/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Remember, that the snapshot operation is performed on the blob storage object, so you’ll take a snapshot of whatever is persisted to disk. This is a relatively straightforward affair, but it would be a good idea to shut the VM down first. The URL of the blob representing the VD ($bloburl).The Azure location of your VM ($location).The storage container name where the VHD resides ($containerName).The storage account access key ($storageaccesskey).The storage account name ($storageaccountname).The service name that your VM belongs to ($servicename).Your Azure account information, as noted in the Azure cmdlets getting started guide here.The official Windows Azure Powershell cmdlets.In order to follow through the rest of this post, you’ll need a few things: There are two main sections to this process: It seems that Microsoft changed something in Azure that means the method presented in that link no longer works (more on that in a minute) and probably means that my method will cease to work at some point in the future too. Solutionįollowing on from work here which uses our cmdlets, I’ve updated the steps to work with Azure now (April 2013). Unfortunately, Azure doesn’t currently support this, although it does support snapshots of a blob, which gives us a possible option. You have a VM in Windows Azure and you want to take a snapshot of it, so you can revert back to it at a later date. One of our colleagues dived in to this problem and figured out the details, so we thought we’d share what he learned. A couple of AMC users have recently asked us how to take snapshots of VMs in Azure and restore them. ![]()
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