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During the process of manually* creating an image, it’s common to take snapshots. This cmdlet takes a snapshot of the OS disk.I’ve been working with numerous customers on Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) deployments since I started my position at Microsoft. In the background, Azure is stopping the VM and creating a snapshot. Once executed, this may take a couple of minutes. You can see an example below of creating a snapshot for a VM called VM1 in the Demo resource group. The New-AzVmSnapshot only requires two parameters – the name of the VM and the resource group its located in. Once you’ve got a PowerShell console opened and authenticated to the Azure subscription where your VM lives, create a new snapshot with New-AzVmSnapshot. Run Install-Module AzureVMSnapshots to get the module downloaded and installed. Installing the AzureVMSnapshots module is easy since it’s available via the PowerShell Gallery.

The Azure PowerShell modules installed – Install-Module Az in your PowerShell console.

An existing Azure VM – This VM will be used as the guinea pig to back up.

The examples were only tested on PowerShell Core 6.2.3.

Windows PowerShell 5.1 or PowerShell 6+.

If you’d like to follow along, please be sure you have met the following prerequisites: This article will be a tutorial showing you, step-by-step how to perform some tasks.

In this article, you’re going to learn how to both back up and restore Azure virtual machines using a community PowerShell module called AzureVMSnapshots. You can rarely go wrong picking PowerShell as the scripting language of choice to make it happen. When a process isn’t as easy as you think it should be is a great time to build and use your own custom tool.

In the Azure cloud, it’s not quite as easy as clicking a few times though. There are always times when you need to back up a VM at a point in time and restore it at some later date. Taking a snapshot or a backup of a VM is commonplace. But, don’t fret, with the know-how you’ll learn in this tutorial, you can build your own tooling to create easy Azure VM snapshots! If you’re used to right-clicking on a VM in your favorite hypervisor and creating a snapshot, you’ll be in for a rude awakening when running VMs in the Microsoft Azure cloud.