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Applies to: ✔️ Linux Virtual Machine ✔️ Windows Virtual Machine ✔️ Virtual Machine Flex Scale Sets
Managed images is legacy method to generalize and capture Virtual Machine image. For the most current technology, customers are encouraged to use Azure compute gallery. All new features, like ARM64, Trusted launch, and Confidential Virtual Machine are only supported through Azure compute gallery. If you have an existing managed image, you can use it as a source and create an Azure compute gallery image.
- Create an Azure Compute Gallery.
- Assign
Reader
permission on source managed image. - Assign
Contributor
permission on target Azure compute gallery image definition.
This section steps through using the Azure portal to migrate Managed image to existing Azure Compute Gallery.
- Sign-in to Azure portal.
- Navigate to
Managed image
to be migrated and select Clone to a VM image.
Provide following details on the
Create VM image version
page and select Next : Replication >:- Version number
- Target Azure compute gallery
- Target Virtual Machine image definition
Select following
Replication
configuration or select default values and select Next : Encryption >:- Default storage sku
- Default replication count
- Target replication regions
Select
SSE encryption type
or select defaultEncryption at-rest with a platform managed key
and select Next : Tags >.Optional Assign resource tags.
Validate the configuration on
Review + Create
page and select Create to complete the migration.
Replace managed image reference with Azure compute gallery image version in the Virtual machine and flex scale sets deployment templates.