Capturing the image of a Virtual machine in Azure

This tutorial demonstrates how to capture the image of a virtual machine in Azure.

In Azure, an image is essentially a template or blueprint for a virtual machine (VM). It includes the operating system, installed programs, settings, and configurations needed to create a replica of a VM. When you create a VM from an image, a copy of the virtual hard disks (VHDs) in the image is used to create the disks for the new VM.

Table of content

Step 1: Create a compute gallery.
Step 2: Capture and store VM's image.

Step 1: Create a compute gallery

• Logon to Azure porter
• On the homepage, search for Azure compute galleries

• Select + create
• Enter subscription details and Instance details
  • Select resource group that contains the VM to be captured
  • Enter a suitable name and description
  • review and create
  • create
  • Notice resource has been completely deployed. Go to resource.

Step 2: Capture and store VM's image.

• Navigate into the VM previously created, with the added and formatted disc.
• Click capture and image from the drop down menu
• Enter the Target azure gallery name is the one just created.
  • Select new in the Target VM image definition
  • Enter VM image definition name and click ok
  • As this is the first image of the VM, set the version number to 0.0.1. Review and create.
  • create
  • Wait for the resource to deploy .

The image has been successfully captured and saved.

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