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# Rename a VM or Create a new VM with existing os-disk

Articles on: [Virtual Machine](/en/category/virtual-machine-1kumd11/)

There is no option to rename the VM in azure. As a work-around, you will have to delete and re-create the VM.  
  
Either we will re-create machine from backup vault or from disk of existing VM. Like rie-dev-01-rest in this case.  
  
copy os-disk to a container. If storage account is same for a machine which OS disk is to be copied, then no need to turn off this machine. If storage accounts are different then we need to stop machine to copy os-disk.  
  
Refer to video “Copying OS disk to create a new vm” for copying os-disk  
  
We need to run these commands 1 by 1 preferably.  
  
$rgname = "ReynoldsIE" # resource group name  
  
$locname = "North Europe" # resource location  
  
$saname = "reynoldsie" # storage acount name  
  
$vnetname = "AzureLAN" #Existing VNET name  
  
$subnetName ="ReynoldsIESubnet" # azure subnetname  
  
$vnet= Get-AzureRmVirtualNetwork -Name $vnetname -ResourceGroupName $rgname  
  
$singleSubnet = Set-AzureRmVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name $subnetName -VirtualNetwork $vnet -AddressPrefix 10.0.0.0/24 (IP range of same of existing machine)  
  
$vmname = "r-dev01"  
  
$vmsize = "Standard_B2ms" #Size of the VM  
  
$vm=New-AzureRmVMConfig -VMName $vmname -VMSize $vmsize  
  
$storageacc= Get-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $rgname -Name $saname  
  
$diskname = $vmname + "-OSDisk" (This will name of disk)  
  
$vhdURI = "https://reynoldsie.blob.core.windows.net/r-dev01rename/riedev01rest-osdisk-20190219-182907.vhd"  
  
$nicname ="R-Dev01NIC" #New NIC name  
  
$pip=New-AzureRmPublicIpAddress -Name $nicName -ResourceGroupName $rgName -DomainNameLabel $domName -Location $locName -AllocationMethod Static   #  if already existing mention the public IP name.  
  
$subnetindex =0  
  
$nic=New-AzureRmNetworkInterface -Name $nicName -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Location $locName -SubnetId $vnet.Subnets[$subnetIndex].Id -PublicIpAddressId $pip.Id  
  
$vm = New-AzureRMVMConfig -VMName $vmName -VMSize $vmSize  
  
$vm = Add-AzureRMVMNetworkInterface -VM $vm -Id $nic.Id  
  
$vm = Set-AzureRmVMOSDisk -VM $vm -Name $diskname -VhdUri $vhdURI -CreateOption attach -Windows  
  
New-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $rgname -Location $locname  -VM $vm  
  
It will create new machine with name mentioned above.

Updated on: 31/01/2023