"URGENT PLEASE" How can I automate Taking snapShots daily, Remove SnapShots daily from Azure VMs?

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"URGENT PLEASE"

I am struggling to setup a automation of Azure Virtual Machines in Production for taking snapshots daily with their tags, remove that snapshots daily.

Thank you
Rips

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@r001 - Welcome to Microsoft Q&A and thanks for reaching out to us.

In order to set up automation of Azure Virtual Machines in Production you can use Azure Automation Runbooks.

You can follow below for a high-level steps to achieve the same:

Create an Azure Automation account in your subscription and create a new runbook in the account.
Write a PowerShell script to take a snapshot of the VMs and tag them with the current date.
Schedule the Runbook to run daily at a specific time.
Write another PowerShell script to remove the snapshots that were created by the Runbook.
Schedule the second Runbook to run daily at a specific time.

Here is an example PowerShell script that you can use to take a snapshot of a VM and tag it with the current date:

# Get the VM object
$vm = Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName "myResourceGroup" -Name "myVM" 
# Get the current date
$date = Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd" 
# Create the snapshot 
$snapshot = New-AzSnapshotConfig -SourceUri $vm.StorageProfile.OsDisk.ManagedDisk.Id -CreateOption Copy -Location $vm.Location -Tags @{ Created=$date } New-AzSnapshot -Snapshot $snapshot -SnapshotName "mySnapshot" -ResourceGroupName "myResourceGroup"

And here is an example PowerShell script that you can use to remove the snapshots that were created by the Runbook:

# Get the snapshots that were created by the Runbook
$snapshots = Get-AzSnapshot -ResourceGroupName "myResourceGroup" | Where-Object { $_.Tags.Created -eq (Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd") } 
# Remove the snapshots 
$snapshots | Remove-AzSnapshot

Please note that these scripts are just examples, and you may need to modify them to fit your specific requirements. Also, make sure to test the scripts in a non-production environment before running them in production.

Hope this helps. and please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions.

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