Is it Possible To Move An Azure Virtual Machine To Another Region?

Question

I have an Azure VM with un-managed disk. I want to move it to another region.

Is there any other way than generalizing my current VM?

Answer 1

Note: You cannot change the location of the resource. Moving a resource only moves it to a new resource group. The new resource group may have a different location, but that does not change the location of the resource.

For more details, refer "Move resources to new resource group or subscription".

You need to generalize the VM in order to move it to another region.

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Answer 2

Is there any other way than generalizing my current VM?

Azure does not support changing a VM's location. You need copy the VM's VHD to another location and use that VHD to create a new VM.

If you don't use current VM's VHD to create multiple VMs in other location, you don't need generalize your VM. Please refer to following steps.

1. Stop your VM.

2. Create a new storage account and blob container in another location.

3. Copy VHD to the new storage account, you could use Azcopy. For more information about Azcopy please refer to this article.

AzCopy /Source:https://shuidisks446.blob.core.windows.net/vhds /Dest:https://shuidiag102.blob.core.windows.net/vhds /SourceKey:sGqtdFHQWQWYyf2tRWGF5jkeAEubTp13AVaeTM25QogxXE+K0Ezq1ulcs18qGVPhCEp6ULdLLbKVa7fMbUvYZg== /DestKey:iCjeS+eegjkSJXHjH2UqCkqXnUPiCGvxaOG0Ad2LoPgUnvBoWl9wQJtC1jc//lOj4CF7khpLQe791P4QeyTY6Q== /Pattern:shui20161222141315.vhd

4. Use the VHD to create a new VM. It is easy for you to recreate with existing VHD by using this template.

Important: Because you don't generalize your currently VM, please don't start two VM at the same time. The second would have the same network issue.