In my previous post I show how you can use the Add-AzureVHD cmdlet to upload a VHD. I wanted to take it a bit further and show how you can use this new cmdlet in conjunction with the other PowerShell cmdlets to migrate and provision an entire virtual machine.

The script below uploads two VHDs; one for the Operating System Disk and one for an additional data disk. Once the VHDs are uploaded it then creates the disk entities using the Add-AzureDisk cmdlet and then proceeds to construct the virtual machine using the newly uploaded VHDs.

# Retrieve with Get-AzureSubscription 
$subscriptionName = '[MY SUBSCRIPTION]'  

# Retreive with Get-AzureStorageAccount 
$storageAccountName = '[MY STORAGE ACCOUNT]'   

# Specify the storage account location to store the newly created VHDs 
Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscriptionName -CurrentStorageAccount $storageAccountName 
 
# Select the correct subscription (allows multiple subscription support) 
Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscriptionName 

# Retreive with Get-AzureLocation 
$location = 'West US' 

# ExtraSmall, Small, Medium, Large, ExtraLarge
$instanceSize = 'Medium' 

# Has to be a unique name. Verify with Test-AzureService
$serviceName = '[UNIQUE SERVICE NAME]' 

# Server Name
$vmname1 = '[MY VM NAME]'

# Source VHDs
$sourceosvhd = 'C:\MyVHDs\AppServer1OSDisk.vhd'
$sourcedatavhd = 'C:\MyVHDs\AppServer1DataDisk.vhd'

# Target Upload Location 
$destosvhd = 'http://' + $storageAccountName + '.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/AppServer1OSDisk.vhd'
$destdatavhd = 'http://' + $storageAccountName + '.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/AppServer1DataDisk.vhd'

Add-AzureVhd -LocalFilePath $sourceosvhd -Destination $destosvhd 
Add-AzureVhd -LocalFilePath $sourcedatavhd -Destination $destdatavhd

Add-AzureDisk -OS Windows -MediaLocation $destosvhd -DiskName 'AppServer1OSDisk'
Add-AzureDisk -MediaLocation $destdatavhd -DiskName 'AppServer1DataDisk'

$migratedVM = New-AzureVMConfig -Name $vmname1 -DiskName 'AppServer1OSDisk' -InstanceSize 'Medium' |
					Add-AzureDataDisk -Import -DiskName 'AppServer1DataDisk' -LUN 0 |
					Add-AzureEndpoint -Name 'Remote Desktop' -LocalPort 3389 -Protocol tcp 
					
New-AzureVM -ServiceName $serviceName -Location $location -VMs $migratedVM