Comments on: Creating And Restoring Azure Virtual Machine Snapshots For Managed Disks

By: Francois Delport

Francois Delport — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 22:38:08 +0000

In reply to Ralph Herold. Thanks for pointing it out, I updated the post.

By: Ralph Herold

Ralph Herold — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:53:17 +0000

Hi, since a couple of weeks there is a Swap OS Disk function for managed disks. This together with the Swap Data Disk function should make it possible to have an easy way to restore a VM snapshot without all the hassle of re-creating the whole VM. @Francois, can you please update your script so we can have true VM snapshot functionality in Azure? Many thnx

By: Francois Delport

Francois Delport — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 01:51:57 +0000

In reply to jfjdskl. With Managed Disk snapshots you can only create a new VM. To achieve checkpoints/snapshot restore functionality you'll have to delete the existing VM and recreate it from the snapshot. If you use standard blob disks you can restore a snapshot and overwrite the existing blob while leaving the VM intact, more info here.

By: jfjdskl

jfjdskl — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 12:39:40 +0000

Quote “There will be a Source Type dropdown where you can select Snapshot and you will see a list of your snapshots to use as the source for the new Managed Disk”

Alright so, after this when you click [Create VM] are you saying you are creating a complete new VM ?? Don’t we have something like checkpoints (hyper-V) or snapshot restore (vmware), which can actually restore to the previous point rather than having an additional copy of VM?

By: Francois Delport

Francois Delport — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 23:21:49 +0000

In reply to Nathalie (@natv). Yes it can be done from the Azure Portal. Choose Create New Resource from the main portal menu and search for Managed Disks to create a new Managed Disk. There will be a Source Type dropdown where you can select Snapshot and you will see a list of your snapshots to use as the source for the new Managed Disk.

By: Nathalie (@natv)

Nathalie (@natv) — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:06:26 +0000

Thanks for the powershell. Do you know if this can also be done via the Azure portal? They make it easy to create a snapshot but not seeing any obvious way to convert it to a managed disk from the portal.