The upload experience was awful (No upload status, no upload percentage…) and the UI freezes unexpectedly.Īzure Drive Explorer is server/client tool that allows you not only to upload VHDs to Azure blobs, but also to upload files inside VHDs in Azure. I will not rate this tool because I just used it for 5 minutes. Azure Storage explorer can be downloaded here and is under a preview version. Azure Storage allows you upload VHDs to Azure blobs and several additional operations. Add-AzureVHD is a powerful way to upload VHDs to Azure, but to be honest you may hit some limits and drawbacksĪzure Storage Explorer is a free utility for viewing and acting on Microsoft Azure Storage. Follow this blog to begin with the Add-AzureVHD command. You can download the Azure Powershell here. ![]() Add-AzureVHD is great if you want to script several VHDs uploads. This is a PowerShell command provided by the Microsoft Azure PowerShell. So, what are you waiting for ? Start now here Update : Only VHDs on Page blobs are supported to work in Azure, CloudBerry copies by default files as Block blobs, you should use the Copy As Page blob button on top of the Window. The PRO edition will let do more things like creating upload rules, create analytic reports, multithread uploading, encryption, compression… But if you want just to upload some VHDs, the free version is really great. In fact, CloudBerry Explorer provides a free action and PRO edition. You can initiate many simultaneous uploads, pause and resume uploads and view the upload remaining time, all this for free. CloudBerry Explorer offers a handsome UI where you can drag and drop VHDs between your local disks and the Azure Blob, and vise-versa. This is just and excellent tool, and my favorite. To upload virtual hard disks to Azure, you can use several tools:ĬloudBerry Explorer for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Look for my blog here, I made a good description of that topic.īut if you want to upload some VHDs to Azure, and you are lost in googling and binging, I wish you will find your answers here. Before I continue, If you plan to migrate a platform to Azure, uploading VHD by VHD is not suitable for you, you should look for a more automated and complete solution. Anyway, in any of these cases, you may want to move some VMs to Azure, so you can start using them in a production or test scenario. More and more customers are moving to Azure, or at least moving some workloads to Azure, or even are starting using Azure. The aim is to add an important information related to CLoudBerry Explorer ![]()
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