{"id":982,"date":"2019-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/introducing-the-preview-of-direct-upload-to-azure-managed-disks"},"modified":"2025-06-25T20:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:46:05","slug":"introducing-the-preview-of-direct-upload-to-azure-managed-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/introducing-the-preview-of-direct-upload-to-azure-managed-disks\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the preview of direct-upload to Azure managed disks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are excited to announce the preview of direct-upload to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/virtual-machines\/windows\/managed-disks-overview\">Azure managed disks<\/a>. Today, there are two ways you can bring an on-premises VHD to Azure as a managed disks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Stage the VHD into a storage account before converting it into a managed disk.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Attach an empty managed disk to a virtual machine and do copy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both these ways have disadvantage. The first option requires extra storage account to manage while the second option has extra cost of running virtual machine. Direct-upload addresses both these issues and provides a simplified workflow by allowing copy of an on-premises VHD directly as a managed disk. You can use it to upload to Standard HDD, Standard SSD, and Premium SSD managed disks of all the supported sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are an independent software vendor (ISV) providing backup solution for IaaS virtual machines in Azure, we recommend you leverage direct-upload to restore your customers\u2019 backups to managed disks. It will help simplify the restore process by getting away from storage account management. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/updates\/azure-backup-large-disk-preview\/\">Azure Backup support for large managed disks<\/a> is powered by direct-upload. It uses direct-upload to restore large managed disks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For increased productivity, <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/features\/storage-explorer\/\">Azure Storage Explorer<\/a> also added <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/new-disk-support-capabilities-in-azure-storage-explorer\/\">support for managed disks<\/a>. It exposes direct-upload via an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI), enabling you to migrate your local VHDs to managed disks in few clicks. Moreover, it also leverages direct-upload to enable you to copy and migrate your managed disks seamlessly to another Azure region. This cross-region copy is powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/storage\/common\/storage-use-azcopy-v10\">AzCopy v10<\/a> which is designed to support large-scale data movement in Azure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you choose to use <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/rest\/api\/compute\/disks\/createorupdate\">Azure Compute Rest API<\/a> or SDKs, you must first create an empty managed disk by setting the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/rest\/api\/compute\/disks\/createorupdate#create-a-managed-upload-disk.\">createOption<\/a> property to Upload and the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/rest\/api\/compute\/disks\/createorupdate#create-a-managed-upload-disk.\">uploadSizeBytes<\/a> property to match the exact size of the VHD being uploaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"rest-api\">Rest API<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n{\n   \"location\": \"WestUS2\",\n   \"properties\": {\n     \"creationData\": {\n       \"createOption\": \"Upload\",\n       \"uploadSizeBytes\": 10737418752\n     }\n   }\n}\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"azure-cli\">Azure CLI<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\naz disk create \n-n mydiskname \n-g resourcegroupname \n-l westus2 \n--for-upload \n--upload-size-bytes 10737418752 \n--sku standard_lrs\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You must generate a writeable SAS for the disk, so you can reference it as the destination for your upload.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\naz disk grant-access \n-n mydiskname \n-g resourcegroupname \n--access-level Write \n--duration-in-seconds 86400\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use AzCopy v10 to upload your local VHD to the empty managed disk by specifying the SAS URI you generated.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nAzCopy copy \"c:somewheremydisk.vhd\"\u202f\"SAS-URI\" --blob-type PageBlob\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the upload is complete, revoke the SAS. Revoking the SAS will change the state of the managed disk and allow you to attach the disk to a virtual machine.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\naz disk revoke-access -n mydiskname -g resourcegroupname\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"supported-regions\">Supported regions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All regions are supported via Azure Compute Rest API version <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/rest\/api\/compute\/disks\/createorupdate\">2019-03-01<\/a>, latest version of Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell SDK, Azure .Net SDK, AzCopy v10 and Storage explorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"getting-started\">Getting started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/virtual-machines\/windows\/disks-upload-vhd-to-managed-disk-powershell\">Upload a vhd to Azure using Azure PowerShell and AzCopy v10<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/virtual-machines\/linux\/disks-upload-vhd-to-managed-disk-cli\">Upload a vhd to Azure using Azure CLI and AzCopy v10<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/md-explorer\">Upload, download, cross-region copy managed disks using Azure Storage Explorer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce the preview of direct-upload to Azure managed disks. 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