Category: VHD

Posted on November 8, 2018January 18, 2019 Azure Azure Compute Azure Portal Azure VMs Cloud PowerShell Subscriptions Tutorial VHD Virtual Machine

How to migrate Azure Managed Disk to different subscription and region – Part II

On the previous post I describe what need to do to move Azure Managed Disks between subscriptions and after that between regions (see link HERE)....

Posted on November 5, 2018January 16, 2019 Azure Azure Compute Azure VMs PowerShell Tutorial VHD Virtual Machine

How to migrate Azure Managed Disk to different subscription and region – Part I

On a recent project, I was asked to help move some virtual machines from a MSDN Subscription to a CSP subscription. With this move, we...

Posted on July 20, 2017March 26, 2018 ARM Templates Azure Azure VMs VHD Virtual Machine

Move VM between VNETs in Azure

This week I come into this scenario, I would like to move a virtual machine in azure between different VNETs. You might have different reasons...

Posted on July 11, 2017March 26, 2018 ARM Templates Azure Azure Compute Azure VMs Best Practices PowerShell VHD Virtual Machine

Deploy a ARM VM using an existing VHD in Azure

Another day, one of my costumer wants to rebuild a virtual machine from the existing VHD and place on the new Resource Group and on...

Posted on July 7, 2017July 6, 2017 Azure Azure Storage Azure VMs Backups High Availability Microsoft Cloud VHD Virtual Machine

Managed disk on Azure

You probably already saw this when you are creating a Virtual Machine on Azure. After you insert the basic information like Name of the VM,...

Posted on June 14, 2017June 13, 2017 Azure Azure Site Recovery Best Practices Disaster Recovery Hybrid Cloud Microsoft Cloud VHD

Azure Site Recovery Planning Considerations – Part 1

I have been writing quite a bit about how Azure Site Recovery can help you build a Disaster Recovery solution, help you migrating workloads in...

Posted on May 30, 2017 Azure Azure Storage Microsoft Cloud News VHD

Bigger disks on Azure Storage

If you follow the announcements during the Microsoft Build 2017 conference on the beginning of the month, one of the announcements was the increase of...

Posted on April 14, 2017May 24, 2017 Azure Azure VMs Cloud Generation 2 Virtual Machine Hyper-V Microsoft Cloud VHD VHDX Virtual Machine

Virtual Machines: Hyper-V vs Azure IaaS

A lot of times, during the Azure Foundation workshops session that I usually deliver, the difference between Azure virtual machines and Hyper-V virtual machines comes...

Posted on February 16, 2016April 16, 2017 Azure Azure VMs Cloud Cloud Services VHD Virtual Machine

ARM vs Classic Virtual Machines

Right now, Azure allows us to use the classic and the ARM portal. They might be very similar, except the end-user experience (in this case...

Posted on July 2, 2012 Hyper-V VHD VHDX Windows Server 2012

How does a storage migration of a running virtual machine in Windows Server 2012 (both through Hyper-V manager and through PowerShell) actually work?

The process followed by Hyper-V internally to perform a storage migration is actually quite simple to explain and is as follows: Step 1: Start with...