I am looking for a way to migrate my VM's off Azure so I can run them locally on my Win8, Hyper-V enabled machine. Is this possible? If so can someone point me to a tutorial or some reference for doing so? My research has not found a straight forward approach.
Thanks
Yes, it's possible:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161205162932/https://www.opsgility.com/blog/windows-azure-powershell-reference-guide/uploading-and-downloading-vhds-to-windows-azure/
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-us/ea159bb9-fd67-4248-b6f4-1b3904a63455/how-to-download-a-vhd-from-windows-azure-to-my-local-pc-?forum=WAVirtualMachinesforWindows
Just one information: you'll pay for each MB that you'll download.
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I installed a few beta version of some apps and now the functionality of the Windows is broken.
Is there any way I can reset the windows to it's initial state from the portal or I have to remove it and create a new one?
If you have not backup this VM or take a snapshot of this VM, we should re-create a new VM.
As mentioned by Jason, if a backup or a snapshot was taken, you could use them to recover the VM.
You have mentioned, ‘now the functionality of the Windows is broken’, unsure if you are facing some boot issue or something else. Please do let me know if feasible, you could look at fixing the underlying issue. Or just recreate the problematic VM and not the entire Resource Group itself.
I would like to highlight the process of recovering the OS below:
Delete the VM encountering issues, keeping the virtual hard disks.
Attach and mount the virtual hard disk to another Windows VM for troubleshooting purposes.
Connect to the troubleshooting VM. Edit files or run any tools to fix issues on the original virtual hard disk.
Unmount and detach the virtual hard disk from the troubleshooting VM.
Create a VM using the original virtual hard disk.
Refer the document for more details on this process.
I have a Windows Server running as a Virtual Machine on Azure that I have installed SQL Enterprise on. I installed SQL Server onto a new drive (E:) so that the C: drive would remain for the OS.
I followed the instructions on how to use sysprep and basically capture the image to use going forward for new instances. After following these steps and deploying a new vm with this image, nothing worked. It thought SQL was installed (it wasn't). It also didn't know anything about the additional drives or VHDs.
I came across this Blog post from the Azure team and it references a powershell command Save-AzureVMImage that may be what I'm looking for with the new "Virtual Machine Image".
Ultimately what I want is to have an image that I can use to deploy a new fully functional Windows Server instance with SQL Enterprise installed and the additional VHDs being used... Can someone point me in the right hemisphere on this please...
Save-AzureVMImage until the build 2014 only captures OS disk and not the data disk, since your SQL is installed on a separate mapped drive a data disk. That will not be part of the snapshot\sysprep process.
There is something called VMImages recently launched which captures data disks along side OS disks.You will have to update Azure Commandlets to find more options while capturing Image of a running VM, Refer to the blogs below for more detailed solution
http://vishwanathsrikanth.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/windows-azure-vmimages-updates-to-clonevm-powershell-script/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2014/04/14/vm-image-blog-post.aspx
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I need to be able to generate some type of Scheduling service within Windows Azure, but which is the best and most resilient?
Currently I have a Windows Service running Quartz, which works okay, but on a Windows Server. I need this to run in the cloud.
The tasks, read/write to a database and some will send emails.
I've looked over all the possible solutions in Stack Overflow, but they appear to be old and not updated to the latests Azure Platform.
Any suggestions or pointers?
The most adapted solution might be a worker role, MS has a tutorial specifically for what you're looking for: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/tutorials/multi-tier-web-site/4-worker-role-a/
This would definitely a less expensive solution than instantiating a virtual machine, but might require some work.
I ended up using the Azure Mobile service and the Scheduler that come with it, which works a treat
I run a Worker Role using Quartz .NET to schedule stuff. Works great!
https://github.com/quartznet/quartznet
Obviously, that would be difficult to do on the cloud since you won't be able to install services or anything that could run in the background. A less than perfect solution would be to have a workstation under your control handle the scheduling and send updates to the web server which would then write them to the DB server. Otherwise, you should self host the website and application, etc.
What strategy you will recommend in order to move Linux VM deployed currently in Azure to AWS?
Assume that I will fit all the data in the OS disk, so only one disk has to be moved.
The VM is running Linux Ubuntu if that matters.
Naturally I will like to do that with as little network traffic as possible, since it is chargeable.
I read comments about the image making procedure described here, that it is not safe and some of the VMs are lost in the process ... Not sure if it is still the case, but I will hate very much to lose my VM. :)
You can Export VM from Azure using CloudXplorer and then Import the VM in EC2.
I've been told that you can create virtual directories in IIS hosted on Azure but I'm struggling to find any info on this as its a relatively new feature. I'd like to point the virtual directory to an Azure Drive (XDrive, NTFS Drive) so that I can reference resources on the drive.
I'm migrating an on premise website onto Azure and need to minimise the amount of rework / redevelopment required. Currently the website has access to shared content folders and I'm trying to mimic a similar set up due to tight time scales.
Does anyone have any knowledge of this or pointers for me as I can't find any information on how to do this?
Any information / pointers you have would be great
Thanks
Steve
I haven't had a moment to check myself, but get the latest copy of the Windows Azure Platform Training kit. I'm fairly certain that it has a hands on lab that demonstrates the new feature. However, I do not believe that lab includes creating a virtual directory on a azure drive. Even if you can point it there, you may run into some .NET security limitations. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=413e88f8-5966-4a83-b309-53b7b77edf78&displaylang=en
Another resource to look into might be the stuff Cory Fowler is doing http://blog.syntaxc4.net/ He's been spending some time of late really digging into the internals of the new 1.3 roles. So he might be able to lend you a hand.
I've been kicking this issue around for sometime now and I can upload a VHD to Azure and I can create a virtual directory in Azure that points to a physical location on my pc (when running in Dev fabic) and here is the but....
I can't find any examples on where I can do both at the same time, i.e. mount a drive and then map a virtual directory to it.
I've had a look in the 1.3 SDK and looked at various blogs but I can't see any pointers on this - I guess I may have got hold of the wrong end of the stick. If anyone knows how or if this can be done, that would be great.