#Provide storage account name where you want to copy the underlying VHD of the managed disk. #Provide Shared Access Signature (SAS) expiry duration in seconds e.g. #Provide the name of your resource group where managed is created $subscriptionId = 'provide subscriptionID' #Provide the subscription Id of the subscription where managed disk is created There are lot available in the GitHub and have used this one was taken from GitHubĪll we need to provide subscription ID, Resource group name, disk name, target storage account name, storage container, storage account key and destination VHD file name. Now navigate to the destination blob container and paste the copied vhd file.Ĭopying the data from the managed disks is much easier using Azcopy or power shell script. Open storage explorer – click on the subscription – expand the blob containers of the source VHD – Select the VHD – and click on copy Using storage explorer is pretty much simpler task Option 2: Using storage explorer (preview) Once the task is completed we get the below messageĪnd can see the file successfully copied to the target storage container location We will see the copy progress once after the command have been initiated SourceKey:”keyXXX” /DestKey:”DestinationKeyXX” /SyncCopy /s

Now we need to open command prompt and run the below command replacing the required entries that we have taken from the respective storage accounts Step 3: Follow Step 1 & 2 and get the URL and access key details of the target storage account. Step 2 : Copy the access key of the source storage account. Navigate to storage account – Choose the Associated VM SG account – Click on Blobs – Select the container name – Choose Properties – Copy the URL This article outlines the steps involved in copying the VHDs between managed and unmanaged disksĬopying the VHDs from unmanaged disks to a new storage account is pretty simple and we have two options copying via AzCopy or use Storage explorer The most common tasks that we might be receiving in Azure is to copy the blobs between the storage accounts.

Azcopy using storage key