Tried and got a LinkedAuthorizationFailed exception.Īfter looking around, I found this description here, but no solution.Ĭheck if your account belongs to the same tenant as the resource group you’re deploying to. This seems the most concise article that I’d like to refer to: There seems to be many online articles around this, some in Azure docs and some by others. Section 2: Cloning a VMs with Managed Disks Attempt 1: Works only if target subscription is in the same AAD tenant It works for my purpose, but documenting here for reference. See here for naming convention best practices.Ī more significant change is that the created VM converted my VHD to a managed disk. It can be major since it will not follow your preferred naming standards. This is understandable since the ARM template didn’t ask for this input. Small caviat is that the created VM resources don’t follow the resource names in the original configuration. Tried remoting in and I see all my installed applications and other configurations. I hope this works, as I can’t afford to sysprep (given that this VM is being used) and would rather just recreate the jump box from scratch. If it works, I don’t need to use powershell anymore.Īfter filling the above parameters, I realized that my Jump Box WS 2016 VM isn’t generalized. Ok let’s try using this quickstart ARM template. vhd file to the target storage account Step 2: Create the same VNet Configurationīefore I can create a VM from an existing VHD, I need to make sure my VNet is set-up in the target subscription… done. Created a storage account in the target subscription.Quickstart ARM template using an existing VHD:.Searching around, the following URLs seem to be good references on how to do this: Section 1: Cloning a VM with an Unmanaged Disk Let’s see how it goes, hope I succeed in the end. This blog post is an unrefined post as I go work through this.

My thought was that rather than recreating all 3 VMs from scratch, can I simply clone these?

1 SUSE Linux HANA DB Server with 1 managed OS disk and 10 data disks.

1 SUSE Linux App Server with 1 managed OS disk and 2 data disks.

1 WS 2016 Jump Box Server with 1 unmanaged OS disk.

I am setting up a set of SAP HANA VMs in a new subscription on a different tenant.

Azure vm snapshot