Converting Trusted Azure VMs to Standard VMs

Jagroop Kaur 20

I have created a Windows Server VM with Trusted Launch Virtual Machine and am unable to add it to Azure Site Recovery. Is there a way to convert the running VM to a standard VM? Additionally, I am unable to add backups to a standard backup policy.

SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 39,126 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-10-05T07:31:12.33+00:00

@Anonymous Just checking in to see if you got a chance to see the previous response and if it helped, I would request you to "Accept Answer and Upvote" so that the relevancy of this post will improve when anyone in the community search for a similar query.
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 39,126 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-10-09T20:21:09.02+00:00

@Anonymous We haven't heard back from you. Please reply if you have any questions in this matter and we will gladly continue the discussion.

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TP 78,976 Reputation points

2023-10-03T04:27:41.72+00:00

Hi Jagroop,

There is no "simple" way to convert Trusted Launch VM to Standard VM. If you don't have a lot of customizations/data in your VM I recommend creating a new VM with Security type: Standard, manually copying over any data from original VM, and re-perform any customizations inside of the VM.

If it would take many hours to manually re-do all the work to a new VM as described above, there is a multi-step process I have used in the past. Before doing it I recommend shutting down the VM and taking snapshot.

Basic steps are Export the disk (generate SAS), use azcopy to copy it to blob in storage account, create new disk from blob, create new Standard VM, shut down VM, swap OS disk with new disk created above, start VM and check that everything is okay.

Please click Accept Answer and upvote if the above was useful. If you decide to perform the more complicated export procedure above and need more details on a specific step let me know and I can assist.

Thanks.

-TP
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TP 78,976 Reputation points

2023-10-04T23:05:35.6566667+00:00

@Anonymous Any update?

Jagroop Kaur 20 Reputation points

2023-10-05T16:18:57.2966667+00:00

hi TP,

I have not followed the steps, but I have read in other posts that if you create a VM from disks, it will create a trusted VM. Our Organization is not going to configure ASR, so we are good to go. Thanks for the quick response

TP 78,976 Reputation points

2023-10-05T16:28:45.8266667+00:00

What I described is different than creating from a disk. It is an Export, then creating from the export essentially, which is why it will allow you to create it as a Standard disk. Regardless, glad you are good to go.

Please click Accept Answer to close up this thread.

Thank you.
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