Try to copy a snapshot to a different region/location, but I wasn't able to select the target region I want on azure portal

Question

Try to copy a snapshot to a different region/location, but I wasn't able to select the target region I wanted on the Azure portal.

Why wasn't I able to change the region?

Answer 1

@Xiaoyun Liao You can't select disks as resources to be moved across regions. However, disks can be moved as part of a VM move or by creating and copying an Incremental snapshots of a disk.

Below steps how to move standalone (not attached) disks between regions.

1. Create an incremental snapshot for managed disks

• Sign into the Azure portal and navigate to the disk you'd like to snapshot.
• On your disk, select Create a Snapshot.

• Select the resource group you'd like to use and enter a name.
• Select Incremental and select Review + Create

• Select Create

2. Copy an incremental snapshot to a new region

• Select Copy snapshot.

3. After snapshot created, allow some time for the copy operation to complete and process with the disk creation.