Lately I’m busy with learning more and more about Azure. I even passed my Azure 70-533 exam last week 
Today I wanted to start installing Operations Manager 2012 R2 in a newly deployed VM in Azure. Instead of downloading the installation bits from MSDN from within the VM hosted in Azure I wanted to upload a local ISO file to my Azure Storage Container and attach the VHD (with ISO) to my VM hosted in Azure.
To do so I created the following PowerShell script.
# --------------------------------------------------- # Script: C:\Scripts\PS\Azure\Attach_OMSetup_vhd.ps1 # Version: 0.1 # Author: Stefan Stranger # Date: 02/05/2015 15:26:30 # Description: Create a local vhd, insert an iso file and upload to azure storage container and attach vhd to VM # Comments: # Changes: # Disclaimer: # This example is provided “AS IS” with no warranty expressed or implied. Run at your own risk. # **Always test in your lab first** Do this at your own risk!! # The author will not be held responsible for any damage you incur when making these changes! # ---------------------------------------------------#Variables:$vhdpath="d:\vhds\OMSetup.vhd"$destinationVHD="https://mystorage.blob.core.windows.net/opsmgr/opsmgrsetup.vhd"$size= 1GB$isopath="D:\ISOs\en_system_center_2012_r2_operations_manager_x86_and_x64_dvd_2920299.iso"#Create VHD #Mount VHD #Intialize Disk #Create partition #Format VolumeNew-VHD -path $vhdpath-SizeBytes $size-Dynamic Mount-VHD -Path $vhdpath Get-Disk -FriendlyName "Microsoft Virtual Disk"| Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle MBR -PassThru | New-Partition -UseMaximumSize -AssignDriveLetter:$False-MbrType IFS | Format-Volume -Confirm:$false-FileSystem NTFS -force | get-partition | Add-PartitionAccessPath -AssignDriveLetter -PassThru#Copy OMSetup.iso to mounted disk$Driveletter= (Get-Disk -FriendlyName "Microsoft Virtual Disk"| get-partition)$Destination=$Driveletter.DriveLetter+":" copy-item -path $isopath-Destination $Destination#Dismount vhdDismount-VHD $VHDPath#load Azure moduleImport-Module Azure#Authenticate through Windows Azure Active Directory and downloads associated subscriptionsAdd-AzureAccount#Upload vhd Add-AzureVhd -LocalFilePath $vhdpath-Destination $destinationVHD-NumberOfUploaderThreads 5# Adds a new disk to the Microsoft Azure disk repository.Add-AzureDisk -DiskName "OMSetup"-MediaLocation $destinationVHD-Label "OMSetup"#Attach disk to VMGet-AzureVM -service "service"-Name "vm"| Add-AzureDataDisk -Import -DiskName "OMsetup"-LUN 0| Update-AzureVM
When I now connect to my VM in Azure I see the following:
After mounting the vhd file I can start the installation of Operations Manager in my VM.
You can also download the above script from Github