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After converting the dynamically sized, VHD-formatted vNIOS image into a fixed-size VHD image, use AzCopy or another command-line utility to upload the converted image to the Microsoft Azure Blob storage.

Note

Note

Ensure that the image you upload is 250 GB in size. If this requirement is not met, the deployment will fail.

Prerequisites

To upload the converted vNIOS image to the Blob storage, complete the procedures described in this section.

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To install and set up AzCopy, complete the following steps: 

  1. Download the AzCopy V10 compressed file to your local system from the following location and extract it:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-azcopy-v10#download-azcopy

  2. Set the AZCOPY_DEFAULT_SERVICE_API_VERSION environment variable to 2017-11-09.
    Configuring the API version profile allows the command-line utility to connect to Azure Stack Hub. If the API version profile that is specific to Azure Stack Hub is not set, the utility will try to connect to the Azure public cloud instead.
    To set, go to the path where the executable file of AzCopy is located and run the following command based on the operating system:

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Uploading the vNIOS Image

To upload the converted vNIOS image to the Blob storage by using AzCopy, run the following command:
.\azcopy cp "/path/to/file.vhd" "https://account.blob.core.windows.net/[container]/[SAS_token]"

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