With the ability now to export a managed disk and download it locally via the portal, is there a way to do this via powershell?
Or do you still need to first copy it to a storage account and then pull it down?
As per this post:
Download Azure VHD to local use powershell
The short answer is yes, the managed disk would not show the URL that you need to download from Azure through PowerShell, even if it is also just a VHD file. So you should first get the VHD file URL through copying it to a storage account blob. Then you can download it with the ways you want. I suggest the AzCopy that provide in your link.
Or you can just generate URL and then download it in the Azure Portal without copy it to a storage account first. Hope this will help.
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We are taking over a VM image from another subscription, which we cannot access via the portal, so the snapshot download link is all we have.
I don't have enough disk storage on my computer to download the VHD from the download link provided by Azure so I'm wondering if there is a way to upload a file from URL directly to an Azure container? The image is roughly 120 gb.
The SAS url looks something like this:
https://{something}.blob.storage.azure.net/{something}/{something}
Thanks in advance!
If you have a SAS URI for your VM's Snapshot, you can use Copy Blobs functionality to perform server-side copy operation which will copy blob from one storage account to another without the need to download it locally.
You can use azcopy tool to perform this operation.
I have created a custom managed image in Azure and it is there in the images menu. Is it possible to back it up or put delete protection etc or to store the image somewhere else.
Because If the subscription is cancelled or deleted, all these images also will be deleted as far as my understanding.
Or is there any best practices to save the image.
Thanks in advance.
As #Tiny-wa's comment points out, you can lock the image resource via the Azure portal from image--->Locks--->Add--->set the delete lock to prevent the image to be deleted unexpectedly.
There is not a direct feature to backup a managed image in Azure. If you want to save the image content, you need to download the VHD file from the source VM OsDisk and dataDisk or the snapshots of the source VM to your local VM. You also could upload the VHD file to a file share or your managed Azure storage account. Read Download a Windows VHD from Azure for more details.
I want to export a machine learning model I created in Azure Machine Learning studio. One of the required input is "Path to blob beginning with container"
How do I find this path? I have already created a blob storage but I have no idea how to find the path to the blob storage.
you should be able to find this from the Azure portal. Open the storage account, drill down into blobs, then your container. Use properties for the context menu, the URL should be the path ?
You can also get this URL using Azure Storage Explorer(on-prem) Software.
Also through an Online version of Azure Storage Explorer
You can also simply guess the URL if you know the storage account name and container name
https://[storageaccount].blob.core.windows.net/[container]/[blob]
Would like to know whether it is a feasible to move the folder ( with files ) from Azure blob/file storage to webapp root.
Scenario: Would like to replace gallery of images folder used by static HTML site for gallery section weekly using powershell.
Request suggestions or alternatives as not sure how to handle this in azure and schedule swapping of folders between blob and ftp.
You can use the BlobTrigger trigger with WebJob deployed on the same web app and copy the files from blob storage to the local file system.
Would like to replace gallery of images folder used by static HTML site for gallery section weekly using powershell.
Please try to store the images in Azure blob directly. We can access the images in Azure blob with 'Full public read access' mode or 'Public read access for blobs only' mode. Refer to this article for more details. Then we can use Scheduler Webjob to replace the images directly.
It wasn't clear to me exactly what you are trying to do. If you have a legacy app / adoption of FTP you can mount an FTP server on Azure File Storage. Or alternatively Blob Storage can be used for public data as described above. If you want a simple tool for interacting with Blob Storage then you can try Storage Explorer.
We created a VM for a client and set it all up on our account. A bunch of work. Now I'd like to put a copy of it on his Azure account (which he does not have yet) and keep my copy for troubleshooting. Is there a method I can use to backup the VM and restore it to his Azure account? Or any other suggested way to copy it to another account's VM?
Sure you can. Since VHD for your Virtual Machine is stored as Page Blob in Azure Storage, you can simply copy the blob from one storage account to another. You can use AzCopy tool to do that. There's no need for you to download the blob from main storage account and reupload it in backup storage account.
When you need to create a VM again, simply create an image using that blob and then create a VM from that image.
You can create Image and upload to the new account, You can check link for more information Create and upload a Windows Server VHD to Azure