3.10. Uploading a VHD image to Azure Blob storage

Procedure

1. Upload the VHD file to the storage container:

   $ az storage blob upload \
       --account-name _<storage_account_name> --container-name _<container_name> \
       --type page --file _<path_to_vhd> --name _<image_name>.vhd

   Example:

   $ az storage blob upload \
   --account-name azrhelclistact --container-name azrhelclistcont \
   --type page --file ~/Downloads/rhel-image-10.vhd --name rhel-image-10.vhd
   
   Percent complete: 100.0%

2. List the storage containers:

   1. To display in the tabular format, enter:

      $ az storage container list --output table

   2. To display in the YAML format, enter:

      $ az storage container list --output yaml

3. Use the URL for the uploaded VHD file from the 1st step:

   $ az storage blob url -c <container_name> -n _<image_name>.vhd _<url_of_vhd_file>_

   Example:

   $ az storage blob url -c azrhelclistcont -n rhel-image-10.vhd "https://azrhelclistact.blob.core.windows.net/azrhelclistcont/rhel-image-10.vhd"

4. Create the Azure custom image:

   $ az image create -n _<image_name> -g _<resource_group> -l _<azure_region> --source _<URL> --os-type linux

   注意

   The default hypervisor generation of the VM is V1. You can optionally specify a V2 hypervisor generation by including the option --hyper-v-generation V2. Generation 2 VMs use a UEFI-based boot architecture. For details, see Support for generation 2 VMs on Azure. The command may return the error "Only blobs formatted as VHDs can be imported." This error may mean that the image was not aligned to the nearest 1 MB boundary before it was converted to VHD.

   Example:

   $ az image create -n rhel10 -g azrhelclirsgrp2 -l southcentralus --source https://azrhelclistact.blob.core.windows.net/azrhelclistcont/rhel-image-10.vhd --os-type linux