Snapshotting an Azure VM disk

Another way to create custom virtual machines is to deploy them from an existing snapshot from another virtual machine. To do this, you first need to create a snapshot of an existing virtual machine.

The following exercises show you how to create the snapshot configuration for an existing virtual machine and how to take a snapshot of the disk using the New-AzureRmSnapshot cmdlet.

Setting snapshot parameters

Before snapshotting a virtual machine, a few parameters/variables need to be set so they can be more easily referenced later. We need to set the resource group name, the location where the source virtual machine resides, and a name for the snapshot.

Run the following commands to set the parameters...