Upload VHDX
A support for uploading VHDX images would be great. With that it wouldn't be necessary anymore to migrate a VHDX to VHD before.
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AdminAzure IaaS Engineering Team
(Azure IaaS Engineering Team, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure)
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The status of this item has been moved back to Under Review. We initially planned to move to VHDX support as part of our support for HyperV Gen2 VMs, but we ended up using the VHD format for Gen2 VMs as well. Some aspects of the Azure Infrastructure do not cleanly support VHDX OS or data disks. So this feature is dependent on some of these internal services being updated which is an ongoing process.
25 comments
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Shane Castle
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Any updates?
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Anonymous
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I just noticed that this feedback item, which currently has 308 votes making it #2, does NOT show up on the Feedback Forums home page. Even if you filter by Status = "Planned" (which it purportedly is) it doesn't show up. What's with that? Are they sweeping it under the rug?
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Anonymous
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Hey! Microsoft! We're testing out Azure as a DR solution and I prepared a VHDX test image only to find that it wasn't supported. What the heck?
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Tamo
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Sounds like Microsoft does not breach what they do. is VHDX bad and that is why Azure does not use it? Should we stop using VHDX on our on-premise Hyper-V ? I am curious why Azure does not support VHDX, is it because Azure runs on 2008 servers?
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KenB
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Coming up on 5 years of "looking into it". Needed this yesterday. Let's go!
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Robert Sloan
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It would be nice if Microsoft announced Gen2 support instead of leaving everyone in the dark. It makes you wonder if they are even working on it.
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Steve Vida
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Are there any updates on when Gen2 Win10 VMs will be supported on Azure?
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Robert
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2017 and still no updates???? Come on MSFT!
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Cliff Schomburg
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Would someone from the Azure product team validate this feedback and provide a response? This is an important feature for many of us based on the comments below and total number of votes.
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Stefan Cuypers
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We want to implement Azure site recovery, but have over 50 servers that are Generation 2 with GPT boot disk. That does not seem to work for Azure site recovery which essentially makes it unusable for us.
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TJ Cornish
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Agreed - "Cloud First" is running on a platform 2 generations old. Let's go here folks!
We need VHDX support because of the time it takes to downconvert during an Azure Site Recovery failover operation. This adds 20 minutes to an hour to recovery time.
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Troy Davis
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Still waiting to hear (over 2yrs now on OP) when Gen2/VHDX will be supported...I feel like calling out "Bueller...Bueller..."
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Kelvin
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I've not seen any more feedback on this issue, although that's not to say it hasn't been implemented (hopefully it has) but would appreciate some specific confirmation on full Gen2/VHDX support on Azure - and if still not done, when please ? Thanks
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Thomas Lee commented
We need support for larger disks in particular - and that means we need VHDXs supported.
This feedback has been around for over a year - is there any likely timescale?
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This bit of feedback has been around now for over three years. Is there any likely time frame for adding this? It is a deployment barrier to many of my customers who had and need larger VHDXs.
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Anonymous
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It's kind of embarassing to MS that Azure doesn't support VHDX, drives over 1TB, and many other Hyper-V premium features. It makes Microsoft's cloud story a lot less persuasive. Glad I wasn't an all-in early adopter and only used Azure when it made direct financial sense. Though even then, I'm running into obstacles with ASR. Luckily I have other options. I feel bad for those that thought "Cloud First" was anything other than a marketing slogan and an excuse to not work on the on-prem System Center, Exchange, and SharePoint, and instead force customers into inferior and more expensive cloud offerings.
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Gary Herbstman - Byte Solutions
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Azure should be made consistent with Hyper-V.
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TJ Cornish
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Any update on timing? We're testing Azure Site Recovery and the down-converting of the VHDX to VHD means our failover time is 30 minutes or more for a small virtual machine, vs. just a few minutes for a machine that doesn't require a drive conversion.
Downgrading our production servers to VHD is not an acceptable tradeoff.
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Luke Latham
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Still "planned" ... from August of 2013 to December of 2015?? I'm just trying to take my shiny new Nano Server .vhdx image that I just created and get it mounted out of blob storage as an ARM VM in the new Azure Portal. I guess I'll have to dig into PS commands, but I don't understand why its taking so long to have such a simple feature put into the new Azure Portal.
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Luke Latham
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WHY is this taking so long????? We have Nano Server out in TP4 now (Dec, 2015), we're making .vhdx images to mount, and we can't mount them into ARM VM's in the new Azure Portal yet. Good grief! This was filed by the OP in March!