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Export an Azure osDisk Snapshot to a Storage Account

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I decided to write an update to date article on how to transfer the osDisk snapshot to a storage account. Most articles I saw online were outdated on the Azure CLI. So let's begin.

There are some prerequisites for this article.

1. That you have an Azure Portal Account with the Azure CLI Installed.
2. That you already have an osDisk snapshot that can be exported.

Step 1. Get the Account Key for the “Destination” Storage Account

az storage account keys list --resource-group <resource-group-nm> --account-name <destination-storage-account-name> --query '[0].value'

The query command will output the first key that can be used to validate the copy to the storage account.

Step 2. Setup a Shared Access Storage (SAS) URI

This step is the same process as running an export from the portal. This will generate a SAS URI that can be used to export the Snapshot into a VHD.

az snapshot grant-access --resource-group <azure-resource-group-nm> --name <name-of-pre-existing-snapshot> --duration-in-seconds 3600 --query…