Create AzureRM VM from existing VHD

While I was helping a costumer creating a Azure RM virtual machine from an existing VHD, I adapt one of my existing scripts, with some search on internet, to improve my script, that I normally used to create Azure RM virtual machines.

In this case, I need to create the VM from an existing VHD on a Storage Account. Usually when you create a new VM, you have to setup the OS type and select the base image.

This script creates a new VM from an image:

$osDiskName = $vmname+’_OS_Disk’

$osDiskCaching = ‘ReadWrite’

$osDiskVhdUri = “https://<STORAGE_ACCOUNT>.blob.core.windows.net/vhds/”+$vmname+”_os.vhd”

# Setup OS & Image

$user = “MrAzure”

$password = ‘<PASSWORD>’

$securePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $password -AsPlainText -Force

$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($user, $securePassword)

$vm = Set-AzureRmVMOperatingSystem -VM $vm -Windows -ComputerName $vmname -Credential $cred

$vm = Set-AzureRmVMSourceImage -VM $vm -PublisherName $AzureImage.PublisherName -Offer $AzureImage.Offer `

    -Skus $AzureImage.Skus -Version $AzureImage.Version

$vm = Set-AzureRmVMOSDisk -VM $vm -VhdUri $osDiskVhdUri -name $osDiskName -CreateOption fromImage-Caching $osDiskCaching 

To use the existing disk, you need to replace the above script and use this one

$osDiskName = $vmname+’_OS_Disk’

$osDiskCaching = ‘ReadWrite’

$osDiskVhdUri = “https://<STORAGE_ACCOUNT>.blob.core.windows.net/vhds/”+$vmname+”_os.vhd”

$vm = Set-AzureRmVMOSDisk -VM $vm -VhdUri $osDiskVhdUri -name $osDiskName -CreateOption attach -Windows -Caching $osDiskCaching

Cheers,

Marcos Nogueira
Azure MVP
azurecentric.com
Twitter: @mdnoga