Azure with Danidu

Hey Folks Recently Microsoft has announched that, Azure now supports VM Selective backups. What is this selective backup??. This will allow the admins/customers to backup only the selected disks in a VM to Azure backup. But at the moment we can only perform the following scnearios Example We have a Linux VM which has OS Disk and 2 data disks as mention below What we can do is Backup All Data disks (Typical option) Backup only the OS disk Backup OS Disk + Disk 1 Backup OS Disk + Disk 2 What we cannot do is back up on the data disks without the OS disk. I will talk about option 2 and 3 ( 4 is same as 3). Basically I will be covering the new options. Alos on this to note, at the moment option 3 only can be set from powershell. There is no GUI option for it. Backup OS Disk + Data Disk 1 Get VM Disk Details Get-AzDisk -ResourceGroupName AE-DEV-LINUX Get Azure VM Datadisk details $Vm = Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName AE-DEV-LINUX -Name LinuxVm01 Determine Datadisk lun details $vm.StoragePro...

Hey Folks, Hope you are doing great, Thought of posting this article, because of a recent experiance I had. We wanted to move a particular VM from one Vnet to another VM. So we thought of taking a down time and Get a disk snapshot and re-reploy the VM in the second VNet. But, unfortuanly Azure threw and error saying. And I noticed, VM is getting deployed but we cannot power it on. And When I dig deepeer I saw VM publisher information was easy. I was able to find many articles mentioning about this, but all the articles shows how to deploy the VM in a vanila environment. So I had to a tweek this a little bit So we had to follow the below process using poweshell. Collocting the required information from source VM $vm = Get-azvm -ResourceGroupName "AE-DEV-SONUS-RG" -Name AERibbonVM $vm.plan Setting up Basic VM Config for the New VM $vmconfig = New-AzVMConfig -VMName ribbonTemp2 -VMSize Standard_B1ms Create a disk from the snapshot $snapshot = Get-AzSnapshot -ResourceGroupName ...