Attempting to Export a VHD from Azure - Unable to download - network error

Question

Hi,

I've stopped our Azure services and am attempting to export a VHD of the OS Disk following the instructions outlined here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/download-vhd

However, every time I've done so after a long amount of time (the full download is almost complete) the download fails with an error in my browser (Download failed - Network error)

I'm downloading to an attached external drive with 4TB of space, the VHD is of the OS Disk is 500GB.

I know this is a bandwidth/network issue but I have limited access to download speeds and the storage of this VM is quickly running up costs.

Are there any strategies to resolve this Network error issue? Or ensure that the VHD is able to download succesfully?

Thank you,

Answer 1

@prmanhas-MSFT

Hi, I was still getting the error and was unable to complete the VHD export through the browser as indicated in the steps here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/download-vhd

However, I was able to work around the problem by using the Azure Storage Explorer and downloading the VHD of the osdisk from there - which completed successfully. The Azure Storage Explorer client handled it great.

Thanks!