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VM Snapshot and Move Planning

Create managed disk snapshots, restore a disk safely, and decide when to move or re-create Azure compute resources across regions.

55 minutes
cloud/azure
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Lab Overview

Practice Azure managed disk protection workflows for AZ-104 without deploying expensive virtual machines. You will create a small managed disk, capture an incremental snapshot, restore a new managed disk from that snapshot, and build a move planning artifact for resource group and cross-region recovery decisions.

What You'll Learn

Create a small Azure managed disk in an approved region with administrator-focused tags

Create and inspect an incremental managed disk snapshot

Restore a new managed disk from a snapshot without deploying a virtual machine

Build a move and cross-region recovery decision artifact from live resource metadata

Prerequisites

Basic Azure CLI familiarity

Basic understanding of Azure resource groups and managed disks

Technologies Covered

azureaz-104managed-diskssnapshotsrecoveryresource-move

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This lab is part of the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) course

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