How can i detach a disk from azure VM using REST-API ?

Question

I want to detach a disk from a Particular VM which i recovered from another VM but i don't see any "rest-api" command to achieve that and if i try to directly delete the disk, it says "Operation-not-allowed" as it's being used by particular VM. Please suggest

Answer 1

@DEEPAK GULATI Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting query here!

Firstly you need to to detach the Disk through portal,Powershell or SDK -> then you can delete disk using REST API . Presently there is No API for detaching the disk

  PS for Detaching the disk   
  
 $VirtualMachine = Get-AzVM `  
       -ResourceGroupName "<RG>" `  
       -Name "teststoragedisk"  
         
    Remove-AzVMDataDisk `  
       -VM $VirtualMachine `  
       -Name "removeusingPS"  
          
    Update-AzVM `  
       -ResourceGroupName "<RG>" `  
       -VM $VirtualMachine  

DELETE https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/disks/{diskName}?api-version=2021-12-01

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