Articles → MICROSOFT AZURE → Create A Snapshot Of The Data Disk From One Virtual Machine To Another In Azure

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

Click to Enlarge


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

Click to Enlarge


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

Click to Enlarge


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

Click to Enlarge


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

Click to Enlarge


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 Create Disk

Click to Enlarge


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

Click to Enlarge


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

Click to Enlarge


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

Click to Enlarge