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Is it possible to download an Azure Disk and explorer the content locally?
Encryption is set to the default, which I guess is the Server Side Encryption where Azure handles this for me ...
Is the only option to create a VM and mount it?
Asking cause I can't find an answer online to this ... I don't have an issue, i'm just exploring Azure and want to know whats actually possible ...
These Disk are dynamic disk created by kubernetes ... both Stanard and Premium.
Yes it is possible:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/download-vhd
Depending on the size of the disk the download might last a little bit.
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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten
OMG, the error was just about 70cm in front of the screen.
These disk is not encrypted ... if, it's removed when downloaded... I had already tried both with "Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer" and the "Disk Export" in the Azure Portal.
BUT ... I totally forgot that they were linux images ... so using ext(2/3/4) or some other kind.
I got one of that opened and seeing that it worked is enogh for me ... exploring linux files system in windows is really no joy ... but it worked.... kind a ...
I will however ... just for the fun of it try to create a windows machine, shut it down and download that ...
So thanks for getting me in the right direction ...
Do you know if this has any cost for downloading a .VHD from azure?