Deploying Windows VM from custom image using Powershell.

How you can deploy a Windows Machine from your source VM image. We have plenty of methods using that we can deploy the VM. Like CLI, Powershell, using Json template.

Here we use Powershell Method to deploy the machine. First thing upload your source VHD image to the cloud. Microsoft Azure support only VHD, If you have image in the form of VHDX or any other format then you need to convert it before uploading.

Convert VHDX to VHD Using Powershell.

Copy paste the below commands in your powershell ISE.

Convert-VHD -Path "d:\sourcecimage.vhdx" -DestinationPath "Sourceimage.vhd"

Once the conversion completed. Upload it to your azure cloud.

Then Now we start the deployment from source image. Copy past the below command to you powershell ISE for deploy. Modify the Global variable as per your wish.

#Deploy New VM using Your custom VM

# Sign-in with Azure account credentials

Login-AzureRmAccount

# Select your Azure Subscription.

#Select your subscription ID

$subscriptionId =

    (Get-AzureRmSubscription |

     Out-GridView `

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

        -PassThru).SubscriptionId

Select-AzureRmSubscription `

    -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId

## Global Variables

$ResourceGroupName = "dstresourcegrp"

$location = "Southeastasia"

## Storage

$storageName = "dststorage"

# Machine Type you want to create.

$storageType = "Standard_A1"

## Network

$nicname = "dstnic"

$subnetName = "dstsubnet"

$vnetName = "dstvnet"

$vnetAddressPrefix = "10.0.0.0/16"

$vnetSubnetAddressPrefix = "10.0.0.0/24"

$publicIPName = "dstpip"

## Compute

$vmName = "dstvm"

$computerName = "dstcomputer"

$vmSize = "Standard_A1"

$osDiskName = $vmName + "osDisk"

#Create New Resouce Group

New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $ResourceGroupName -Location $location

#Create New Storage and put in variable

$storageAcc = New-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -Name $storageName -SkuName "Standard_LRS" -Kind "Storage" -Location $location

#Create a virtual network

$singleSubnet = New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name $subnetName -AddressPrefix $vnetSubnetAddressPrefix

$vnet = New-AzureRmVirtualNetwork -Name $vnetName -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -Location $location -AddressPrefix $vnetAddressPrefix -Subnet $singleSubnet

#Create a public IP address and network interface

$pip = New-AzureRmPublicIpAddress -Name $publicIPName -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -Location $location -AllocationMethod Dynamic

$nic = New-AzureRmNetworkInterface -Name $nicname -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -Location $location -SubnetId $vnet.Subnets[0].Id -PublicIpAddressId $pip.Id

#Create a virtual machine

#The password must be at 12-123 characters long and have at least one lower case character, one upper case character, one number, and one special character.

$cred = Get-Credential -Message "Type the name and password of the local administrator account."

$vm = New-AzureRmVMConfig -VMName $vmName -VMSize $vmSize

$vm = Set-AzureRmVMOperatingSystem -VM $vm -Windows -ComputerName $computerName -Credential $cred -ProvisionVMAgent -EnableAutoUpdate

$vm = Add-AzureRmVMNetworkInterface -VM $vm -Id $nic.Id

#Create New Os Disk uri

$osDiskUri = "https://srcstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vhds/newosdisk.vhd"

#Image URI you can Find Storage group --> Blob --> System -->Microsoft.Compute -->Images --> your conntainer Name --> vhd name given while caputure VM.

$imageUri = "https://srcstorage.blob.core.windows.net/system/Microsoft.Compute/Images/customvhd/Lovlyimg-osDisk.a2d499b8-42b4-4fca-83cf-8403d759435b.vhd"

$vm = Set-AzureRmVMOSDisk -VM $vm -Name $osDiskName -VhdUri $osDiskUri -CreateOption FromImage -SourceImageUri $imageUri  -Caching ReadWrite -Windows

#running below command you can see your VM attached parameters.

$vm

#Create the new VM

New-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -Location $location -VM $vm