PreReq’s
- You need to have the HyperV Role installed on the server if you want to convert VHDX -> VHD , Azure only support VHD
- You need to create a storage account in Azure : $storageaccount
- You need to create a container in that storage account $containername
- Azure Resource Group : $resourceGroup
- VHD to VHDX should be stored at $localPath e.g. C:\Temp\VHD.VHD – this should be the C drive of the computer including System Reserve partition
- Connect to Azure
connect-azaccount
2. Select Azure Subscription
Select-AzureSubscription -Current -SubscriptionName $AzureSubscriptionName
3.
# Upload the VHD
$urlOfUploadedImageVhd = (‘https://$storageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/’ + $containername + ‘/’ + $vhdName)
Add-AzVhd -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Destination $urlOfUploadedImageVhd -LocalFilePath $localPath
This will try and convert the VHDX file to VHD
To be compatible with Azure, Add-AzVhd will automatically try to convert VHDX files to VHD, and resize VHD files to N * Mib using Hyper-V Platform, a Windows naitive virtualization product.
For more information visit https://aka.ms/usingAdd-AzVhd
MD5 hash is being calculated for the file \\XXXX\f$\TEMP\XXXX.VHD.
MD5 hash calculation is completed.
Elapsed time for the operation: 00:16:32
Creating new page blob of size 68719477248…
Detecting the empty data blocks in the local file.
Detecting the empty data blocks completed.
Elapsed time for upload: 00:32:37
LocalFilePath DestinationUri
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\\vbr01\f$\TEMP\XXXX.VHD https://$storageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/$containername/XXXX.VHD
You will have the new Blob URL for the VHD, now you need to make a managed disk from it – https://aidanfinn.com/?p=20441
Once you have a managed disk you can then create a VM from that Managed Disk
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