Azure Storage Container

Question

Hi,

Can anybody tell me how do I upload VHD files within Azure cloud to Storage Container?

I have around 19TB of different disk storages which I have detached from different VMs and now I want to upload them to Azure Storage Container and Archive them.

I cannot find any option on Azure Portal or Azure Storage Explorer Application (for Windows).
If there is any such script please let me know.

Thanks

Answer 1

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The script includes an option to use azcopy I have modified line 47 below, please check to see if it works for you.

#Provide the subscription Id of the subscription where managed disk is created  
$subscriptionId = "yourSubscriptionId"  
  
#Provide the name of your resource group where managed is created  
$resourceGroupName ="yourResourceGroupName"  
  
#Provide the managed disk name   
$diskName = "yourDiskName"  
  
#Provide Shared Access Signature (SAS) expiry duration in seconds e.g. 3600.  
#Know more about SAS here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/Az.Storage/storage-dotnet-shared-access-signature-part-1  
$sasExpiryDuration = "3600"  
  
#Provide storage account name where you want to copy the underlying VHD of the managed disk.   
$storageAccountName = "yourstorageaccountName"  
  
#Name of the storage container where the downloaded VHD will be stored  
$storageContainerName = "yourstoragecontainername"  
  
#Provide the key of the storage account where you want to copy the VHD of the managed disk.   
$storageAccountKey = 'yourStorageAccountKey'  
  
#Provide the name of the destination VHD file to which the VHD of the managed disk will be copied.  
$destinationVHDFileName = "yourvhdfilename"  
  
#Set the value to 1 to use AzCopy tool to download the data. This is the recommended option for faster copy.  
#Download AzCopy v10 from the link here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-azcopy-v10  
#Ensure that AzCopy is downloaded in the same folder as this file  
#If you set the value to 0 then Start-AzStorageBlobCopy will be used. Azure storage will asynchronously copy the data.   
$useAzCopy = 1   
  
# Set the context to the subscription Id where managed disk is created  
Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId $SubscriptionId  
  
#Generate the SAS for the managed disk   
$sas = Grant-AzDiskAccess -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -DiskName $diskName -DurationInSecond $sasExpiryDuration -Access Read   
  
#Create the context of the storage account where the underlying VHD of the managed disk will be copied  
$destinationContext = New-AzStorageContext -StorageAccountName $storageAccountName -StorageAccountKey $storageAccountKey  
  
#Copy the VHD of the managed disk to the storage account  
if($useAzCopy -eq 1)  
{  
    $containerSASURI = New-AzStorageContainerSASToken -Context $destinationContext -ExpiryTime(get-date).AddSeconds($sasExpiryDuration) -FullUri -Name $storageContainerName -Permission rw  
    $containername,$sastokenkey = $containerSASURI -split "\?"  
    $containerSASURI = "$containername/$destinationVHDFileName`?$sastokenkey"  
    azcopy copy $sas.AccessSAS $containerSASURI --blob-type=BlockBlob --block-blob-tier=Archive  
  
}else{  
  
    Start-AzStorageBlobCopy -AbsoluteUri $sas.AccessSAS -DestContainer $storageContainerName -DestContext $destinationContext -DestBlob $destinationVHDFileName  
}  

Answer 2

From what i know there is a storage account in every diskX you have. So i will be like putting a storage account inside other.

If you are worried about backup you could make incremental snapshots if each disk. If you want to backup that data there is a snapshot process that can be incremental.

You could also see how the storage account in disks have redundancy configured: LRS, ZRS o GRS.

Regards.

Answer 3

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This Stack Overflow thread has a PowerShell Script which copies a managed disk to VHD and moves it to storage account. Please review and see if it suites your use-case.

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