This script will trigger copying the snapshot from the Source to the Destination blob storage by getting an access key that expires in 3600 seconds. Start-AzStorageBlobCopy -AbsoluteUri $snapshotaccess.AccessSAS -DestContainer $DestBlob -DestContext $DestStorageContext -DestBlob '$($DestSnapshotname).vhd' -Force -ErrorAction stop $snapshotaccess = Grant-AzSnapshotAccess -ResourceGroupName $SourceSnapshotRG -SnapshotName $SourceSnapshotName -DurationInSecond 3600 -Access Read -ErrorAction stop $DestStorageContext = New-AzStorageContext -StorageAccountName $Deststorageaccount -StorageAccountKey $StorageAccountKey -ErrorAction stop $snapshot = Get-AzSnapshot -ResourceGroupName $SourceSnapshotRG -SnapshotName $SourceSnapshotName

$StorageAccountKey = (Get-AzStorageAccountKey -Name $DestStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $StorageAccountRG).value $DeststorageAccount = 'kennytestrgstorage

$SourceSnapshotName = 'kennytestsnapshot' #A login window will appear for you to login That’s it! We only have 1 pre-requisite before we can copy the snapshot to the blob.

In East US (where we will deploy the VM), we will need a storage Account and a blob created.

In my case, I already had everything I needed so it was easier for me. There are still some pre-requisites before we can do this. Since I did not want to worry about all these dependencies and pre-requisites, I decided to use PowerShell to copy the snapshot to a blob storage that was in the region that we needed the VM deployed. To do this, you will also need to work on some pre-requisite.

using Azure ASR to replicate the VM to a different region.

using Azure Resource Mover (Best practice is probably create a new Temporary resource Group and store the VM and related resources in the same resource group) You need to worry about a lot of dependencies and I found it troublesome to use this option.

There are two options if you want to deploy VM using a snapshot from a different region. (At least not at the time this post was written) Using Azure Resource Mover, you can move VMs and other resources, but not Disks nor Snapshots. The image was in West Europe, but we needed to deploy the VM in East US.īy Default, you cannot move Disks and Snapshots to a different region.

My colleague from a different office was asking me if we could deploy a new VM using an image from a different region.

Azure take snapshot of vm