Move Azure Disk from one Subscription to another - The resource provider cannot perform this operation currently due to system upgrade. Please retry after some time.

Question

I am attempting to move a disk from one subscription to another and it is failing validation with error:

The resource provider cannot perform this operation currently due to system upgrade. Please retry after some time. (Code: OperationNotAllowed, Target: Microsoft.Compute/disks)

I have performed this task previously. In this case this is being performed as DR testing and is workflow for actual DR for customer so need to know what am missing here. I have tried checking all Azure status pages and nothing clear about any system upgrades or anything?

Answer 1

@A Wade Thanks for raising this question! Firstly, apologies for the delay in responding here and any inconvenience this issue may have caused. Kindly try the following steps to isolate the issue: As per the error would appear when you perform move or migrate to the Azure IaaS at the time of platform maintenance.
If this is the reason then you should see issues moving to new subscriptions for resources related to VM's. Requesting to try the move operation after couple of hours.

Please cross-verify the perquisites once again and refer to this article How to move Managed Disks , try to logout and login into the portal again and restart the process(also try to move using PowerShell)

This article shows you how to move Azure resources to either another Azure subscription or another resource group under the same subscription. You can use the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or the REST API to move resources.

Moving Azure VM with managed disks to another subscription

Note: If your storage account does not have any associated disks or Virtual Machines data and only has blobs, files, tables, and queues then the migration to Azure Resource Manager can be done as a standalone migration without dependencies.

The Resource Manager deployment model doesn't have the concept of Classic images and disks. When the storage account is migrated, Classic images and disks are not visible in the Resource Manager stack but the backing VHDs remain in the storage account.

Storage Accounts with no associated disks or Virtual Machines data may be migrated independently. Network Security Groups, Route Tables & Reserved IPs that are not attached to any Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks can also be migrated independently.

Additional Reference: Move resources to a new resource group or subscription: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-move-resources
Move operation support for resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/move-support-resources
Use Azure Resource Move to migrate an EA or PAYG subscription to Azure CSP: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-solution-provider/migration/ea-payg-to-azure-csp/ea-open-direct-arm-to-csp

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Handling planned maintenance notifications

If the issue still persists, can you please share the screen shot of the error message and the region

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