How to move my resource (VM) to another subscription under a different directory without impacting my associated data disk?

Question

My lab has been running a VM (and a data disk on it) on an account for a while under the default directory and a regular subscription. My university later assigned us some education credits to our account, but as a different directory and a different subscription. How can I move my resources (VM+data disk) to this new subscription under a different directory without the risk of losing my data on the data disk?

Answer 1

Hello, @DY !

How do I move my virtual machine (VM) with attached data disk to another subscription?

You can use Move > Move to another subscription with your VM resources and your attached data disk selected:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/move-managed-disks-and-vms-now-available/

Make sure that all VM resources as well as the attached disk are selected, then click Move > Move to another subscription:

There are a couple special scenarios when moving a VM but it doesn't sound like those would apply here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/move-limitations/virtual-machines-move-limitations?tabs=azure-cli

Sources and Additional Reading:

• Move Managed Disks and VMs now available
• Move Azure resources to a new resource group or subscription
• Handling special cases when moving virtual machines to resource group or subscription

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