Azure PowerShell Script to create Virtual machine from Azure Recovery Service vault restore

I am using below PowerShell script to create VM from Recovery Service Vault restore however this is not working. Could you please help me to debug?

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PowerShell Error

New-AzVM : This operation is not supported for a relative URI.

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Below is my PowerShell Script

$ConfigBlobName = "resotevmconfig.json"

$ContainerName = "restorevmcontainername"

$TemplateName = "azuredeploy.json"

$JSONpath = "exportjsonpath"

$StorageAccountRestore = "storageaccountnamewhererestorewashappened"

$StorageAccountRestoreRGName = "Resourcegroupnameofstorage"

$VMRestoreName = "TestVMRESTORE"

$VMVNETName = "Virtualnetworkname"

$VMVNETRGName = "virtualnetworkRG"

$VMNICLocation = "location"

$VNETSubnetIndex= 1

$VMRestoreRGName = "RestorevmRGname"

# Step 8 - Prepare the VM restore

Set-AzCurrentStorageAccount -Name $StorageAccountRestore -ResourceGroupName $StorageAccountRestoreRGName

New-AzStorageBlobSASToken -Container $ContainerName -Blob $TemplateName -Permission r -FullUri

Get-AzStorageBlobContent -Container $ContainerName -Blob $ConfigBlobName -Destination $JSONpath

$VMObject = ((Get-Content -Path $JSONpath -Raw -Encoding Unicode)).TrimEnd([char]0x00) | ConvertFrom-Json

$VMCreateName = New-AzVMConfig -VMSize $VMObject.'properties.hardwareProfile'.vmSize -VMName "$VMRestoreName"

Set-AzVMOSDisk -VM $VMCreateName -Name "$VMRestoreName" -VhdUri $VMObject.'properties.StorageProfile'.OsDisk -CreateOption "Attach"

Set-AzVMOSDisk -VM $VMCreateName -Name "test1-restored-OsDisk" -VhdUri $VMObject.'properties.storageProfile'.osDisk.vhd -CreateOption "Attach" -Windows

$VMCreateName.StorageProfile.OsDisk.OsType = $VMObject.'properties.StorageProfile'.OsDisk.OsType

$VMNICName="$VMRestoreName"

$VNETName = Get-AzVirtualNetwork -Name "$VMVNETName" -ResourceGroupName "$VMVNETRGName"

$VMNIC = New-AzNetworkInterface -Name $VMNICName -ResourceGroupName "$VMRestoreRGName" -Location "$VMNICLocation" -SubnetId $VNETName.Subnets[$VNETSubnetIndex].Id

$VMCreateName=Add-AzVMNetworkInterface -VM $VMCreateName -Id $VMNIC.Id

# Step 9 - Start the VM restore

New-AzVM -ResourceGroupName "$VMRestoreRGName" -Location "$VMNICLocation" -VM $VMCreateName -Verbose

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omarmciver
Oct 14, 2021
Hey nirmalmcse02,

You also seem to be setting the VM OS Disk twice.
Set-AzVMOSDisk -VM $VMCreateName -Name "$VMRestoreName" -VhdUri $VMObject.'properties.StorageProfile'.OsDisk -CreateOption "Attach" Set-AzVMOSDisk -VM $VMCreateName -Name "test1-restored-OsDisk" -VhdUri $VMObject.'properties.storageProfile'.osDisk.vhd -CreateOption "Attach" -Windows $VMCreateName.StorageProfile.OsDisk.OsType = $VMObject.'properties.StorageProfile'.OsDisk.OsType

Could you add:
Write-Output $VMCreateName
...before the New-AzVM command.

If you need to redact any of the content, please be sure to identity for where you had relative URIs vs absolute (i.e. https://resources.microsoft.com/subscriptions/987a.... . or just /subscriptions/987a.... .)

Something in that object is using a relative URI where as the New-AzVM command is expecting an absolute URI.

3 Replies

omarmciver
MCT
Oct 13, 2021
Hey nirmalmcse02

Have a look at the $VMCreateName parameter.

On line 18 you use this to store a VM object (not just a name), and then on line 25 you use this object to Add the network interface to the VM. At the same time you assign the return of that Add-AzVMNetworkInterface to the same variable.

Try changing line 25 from
$VMCreateName=Add-AzVMNetworkInterface -VM $VMCreateName -Id $VMNIC.Id
to
Add-AzVMNetworkInterface -VM $VMCreateName -Id $VMNIC.Id

Thanks
Omar
- nirmalmcse02
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 14, 2021
  omarmciver
  I have replaced the lines as you have shared. Still this powershell is getting failed due to same error.
  Please suggest.
  Below is error.
  Name : TestVMRESTORE
  HardwareProfile : {VmSize}
  NetworkProfile : {NetworkInterfaces}
  StorageProfile : {OsDisk}
  
  PS C:\> # Step 9 - Start the VM restore
  PS C:\> New-AzVM -ResourceGroupName "$VMRestoreRGName" -Location "$VMNICLocation" -VM $VMCreateName -Verbose
  New-AzVM : This operation is not supported for a relative URI.
  At line:1 char:1
  + New-AzVM -ResourceGroupName "$VMRestoreRGName" -Location "$VMNICLocat ...
  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  + CategoryInfo : CloseError: (:) [New-AzVM], InvalidOperationException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Compute.NewAzureVMCommand
  - omarmciver
    MCT
    Oct 14, 2021
    Hey nirmalmcse02,
    
    You also seem to be setting the VM OS Disk twice.
    Set-AzVMOSDisk -VM $VMCreateName -Name "$VMRestoreName" -VhdUri $VMObject.'properties.StorageProfile'.OsDisk -CreateOption "Attach" Set-AzVMOSDisk -VM $VMCreateName -Name "test1-restored-OsDisk" -VhdUri $VMObject.'properties.storageProfile'.osDisk.vhd -CreateOption "Attach" -Windows $VMCreateName.StorageProfile.OsDisk.OsType = $VMObject.'properties.StorageProfile'.OsDisk.OsType
    
    Could you add:
    Write-Output $VMCreateName
    ...before the New-AzVM command.
    
    If you need to redact any of the content, please be sure to identity for where you had relative URIs vs absolute (i.e. https://resources.microsoft.com/subscriptions/987a.... . or just /subscriptions/987a.... .)
    
    Something in that object is using a relative URI where as the New-AzVM command is expecting an absolute URI.

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