Create image from existing VM in Azure using Powershell.

If you want to create an image from you existing VM in azure. First thing you need to do is Login to you VM and syspre it.

Normally we need to create multiple copies of same set of installed softwares and other system setting we do imaging. Your first VM will be your model image for all VMs which you will be creating using one image.

Sysprep

Go to RUN type “Sysprep” without quotation. 

 

 

Double click on sysprep. 

Make sure Enter System Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE) Selected Generalize Check box checked and Shutdown option is selected. As mentioned above.

This will Clear all you SIDs and generalize your system and shutdown the VM.

Note: Once the system shutdown you can’t use it again that VM.

Now Open your Powershell ISE in Administrator mode. And past the below command.

Modify according to yourself in Global Variable session.

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# Capture VM from existing syspreped vm.

# Sign-in with Azure account credentials

Login-AzureRmAccount

# Select your Azure Subscription.

$subscriptionId =

    (Get-AzureRmSubscription |

     Out-GridView `

        -Title "Select an Azure Subscription ..." `

        -PassThru).SubscriptionId

Select-AzureRmSubscription `

    -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId

       

# Global Variables.

#Give resource grou name where your sysprep VM reside.

$ResourceGroupName = "srcresourcegrp"

## Computer

#Give your sysprep VM Name.

$vmName = "srcvm"

#Give Container Name where your image will be storing. any name you can give it will create its own.

$continerName = "customvhd"

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# Deallocate the virtual machine

Stop-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -Name $vmName

# Set the Generalized state to the virtual machine

Set-AzureRmVm -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -Name $vmName -Generalized

# Check the status.

$vm = Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -Name $vmName -status

$vm.Statuses

# Now capture the VM.

Save-AzureRmVMImage -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -VMName $vmName -DestinationContainerName $continerName -VHDNamePrefix 'Captured image' -Path C:\srcvm.json

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