Detach VM from DevTest Lab

Question

I've created a VM using a DevTest Lab, but no longer want to manage it as a DevTest Lab VM.

Primarily, I need to move it to another Azure region, but the main reason is that it is a build server and probably shouldn't have been created as a DTL VM in the first place.

Is there any way to unlink or detach the resulting VM from the DTL, such that if the DTL were removed, the VM would remain?

Alternatively if anyone can advise of a suitable way to move a DTL VM from one region to another then I'd have no reason to unlink them.

Right now, the processes I'm expecting to have to follow to move the VM don't seem to support it being part of a DTL.

Answer 1

Hello @Phil Marland - Thanks for reaching out.

We don't support moving a VM. But we support importing a VM (which is a copy really).

Here is the doc reference for the same : Import-virtual-machines-from-another-lab

You cannot de-link the DTL VM so that it would become a Compute VM but you can always use the SIG route to create the compute VM which is similar to the current state of the specific DTL VM.

I hope this information helps.

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