How to move a disk across regions in azure

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How to move a disk across regions in azure

Abu S 11

I have to move the disk only across regions. So later I can attach it to the vm in another region or create a from it.

The move operation is not supported for Azure disk across regions.
Could you please help me on how to move a disk from one azure region to another region.
Please provide me a step by step process with some screenshot. So I can understand it clearly.

Andreas Baumgarten 123.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2022-02-25T22:30:51.303+00:00

Hi @Abu S ,

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Andreas Baumgarten 123.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2022-02-25T22:30:51.303+00:00

Hi @Abu S ,

are there any additional questions? Does the answer help to solve the issue?
If you found the answer helpful, it would be great if you please mark it "Accept as answer". This will help others to find answers in Q&A

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 1

rickyparallo 51

If it's a managed disk, you can very easily use Azure Storage Explorer to move it to another region AND to another sub or tenant at the same time. I've used scripts that take snapshots from disks and then storing that snapshot as a VHD blob in a storage account and then converting it back to a managed disk. It's a lot of unnecessary work. Just use Storage Explorer for this.

Brian Muller 0 Reputation points

2023-07-26T00:26:09.89+00:00

I believe this can't be done without locally downloading the disk as a .vhd file to your local system and then uploading it to another storage account in the other region or subscription as there's no move option in Storage Explorer.
Mian Hu 20 Reputation points

2023-09-25T07:17:59.97+00:00

In storage explorer, just copy & paste the disk then delete the original. it is much easier than using scripts. it works.
AZ VSE User 0 Reputation points

2023-11-25T23:51:12.31+00:00

Thanks for your information! It's super easy to copy-paste a disk in this tool (and allows you to select a new region).
Tilo 26 Reputation points

2023-12-14T18:44:35.1866667+00:00

using copy and paste in Storage Explorer gives you a pop up to select the target region (on paste)

Also this is not using your computer bandwidth (so no download and upload again)

works great and simple

speed info:
Tilo 26 Reputation points

2023-12-14T18:55:13.1866667+00:00

storage explorer copy and paste works great.
on Paste you can select the target region:

Also speed is good (not using your computer to download and upload)

zoom on speed

Answer 2

Andreas Baumgarten 123.5K MVP Volunteer Moderator

Hi @Abu S ,

maybe this helps:
https://faultbucket.ca/2020/12/migrate-azure-managed-disk-between-regions/
https://lepczynski.it/en/azure_en/how-to-move-a-vm-disk-snapshot-to-another-region/

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