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Create A Snapshot Of The Data Disk From One Virtual Machine To Another In Azure

What Is The Snapshot?

Implementation

1. Create 2 virtual machines with the name "MYVM" and "MYVM1"


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2. Inside the virtual machine "MYVM", create a data disk


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3. Login to the virtual machine using RDP
4. Inside the data disk, create a notepad file and write some text in it


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5. Go to the Azure portal. Click on the disk and inside it, click on the "Create snapshot"


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6. In the create screenshot screen, select the "Resource Group" and enter the "Name"


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7. Finally, click on the "Review + Create" button for data validation. Once the data validation is done, click on the "Create" button
8. Once the snapshot is created, go into the details of the snapshot. Inside the snapshot, click on the "Create Disk"


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9. A screen will come to enter the disk details. Select the "Resource Group" and enter the "Disk name"


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10. Finally, click on the "Review + Create" button and then click on the "Create" button
11. Open PowerShell and write the following command to attach the existing disk to the virtual machine "MYVM1"

$rgName = 'RG'
$vmName = 'MYVM1'
$location = "East US" 
$dataDiskName = "backupdisk"
$disk = Get-AzDisk -ResourceGroupName $rgName -DiskName $dataDiskName 

$vm = Get-AzVM -Name $vmName -ResourceGroupName $rgName 

$vm = Add-AzVMDataDisk -CreateOption Attach -Lun 0 -VM $vm -ManagedDiskId $disk.Id

Update-AzVM -VM $vm -ResourceGroupName $rgName




12. Once the above commands are executed, the data disk is attached to the virtual machine "MYVM1"


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13. Now, login to the "MYVM1" and check the data disk for the notepad file that we have created in the other virtual machine


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