Hello,
Does anybody know when US Central will become available for Azure Virtual Machines? If I go to create a new one, on theChoose an Image page on the right hand pane under "Locations", it gives locations like Central US and East US 2, but I never have those options to choose from. If I runget-azurelocation | sort availableservices | ft Name,AvailableServices -auto, it doesn't even show those regions; it shows North and South Central US, but those don't have PersistentVMRole (only Compute and Storage). I'm assumingPersistentVMRole is the actual Virtual Machine role? Is this somehow a limitation on our company's subscription, or is theChose an Image page lying?
Backstory - We have a complex production infrastructure built in Azure with storage accounts containinghundreds of gigabytes of data. I have been tasked with creating a method for creating nightly backups (or snapshots) of those storage accounts (that we will then keep for a time) in case one of our developers does something wrong and we need to roll back. I have thus far been unable to figure out how to do snapshots, and I haven't found any cmdlets that allow me to make snapshots on the storage accounts. I tried downloading the entire storage accounts, one at a time, from a server in house, but it took days before timing out. So I created an Azure Virtual Machine in West US region and tried the same thing; on one storage account alone, it gets to 246 GB before it appears to time out and the cmdlet crashes. Our storage accounts are in an Affinity Group located in North Central US so as to be in a central location to our customers.
I would love to have a Virtual Machine in the same Region for much faster (and free) data transfer, but this doesn't seem possible. Or, is there some better way I could go about simply creating snapshots for backup purposes? I have yet to find a way to do this. I found some tools that might be in the right direction, but they require specifyingindividual storage accounts and containers - there are hundreds and hundreds here. I want to download (or snapshot) *, I don't want to have to not only add every item in there individually but have to worry about adding new ones manually any time Engineering decides to make a new one. I have yet to find a way of doing this.
Am I doing this the hard way? Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thank!
Rhiannon B
Systems Administrator
Rhiannon