Recently, My client asked me about the date of creation of one of my Azure Virtual Machines. In this article, I will walk you through all the approaches to check VM creation date in Azure.
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How To Check VM Creation Date In Azure
Let us discuss all the approaches individually.
Approach-1: Using Azure Portal
To check VM creation date in Azure, follow the below steps.
1. Log in to Azure Portal.
2. Search for Virtual Machines. Click on the search result Virtual Machines as shown in the screenshot below.
3. Click on the particular Aure VM from the list, as shown in the screenshot below.
4. On the Virtual Machine page, expand the Settings node and then click the Disks link, as shown in the screenshot below.
5. Click on the Disk name link under OS disk, as shown in the screenshot below.
6. Here, check out the Time Created property to see the VM creation date as shown in the screenshot below.
Approach-2: Using PowerShell
We can also use the Get-AzDisk PowerShell command to get the VM creation date and time in Azure. You can just execute the below PowerShell command.
Get-AzDisk -ResourceGroupName "NEWRESGROUP" -DiskName "AzurelessonsNewVM_OsDisk_1_3ded8e6ecd4a4ff39343f870c03502cf" `
| Select Name, TimeCreated, @{N="AzurelessonsNewVM"; e = {($_.managedby -split "/")[8]} }After executing the above command, I got the expected output as shown in the screenshot below.
You can also use the command below.
Get-AzDisk -ResourceGroupName "NEWRESGROUP" -DiskName "AzurelessonsNewVM_OsDisk_1_3ded8e6ecd4a4ff39343f870c03502cf" `
| Select TimeCreated, Name
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Conclusion
You can use these 2 approaches, either use Azure Portal or Get-AzDisk PowerShell command to check the creation date and time of an Azure Virtual Machine.
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I am Rajkishore, and I am a Microsoft Certified IT Consultant. I have over 14 years of experience in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with good experience in Azure Functions, Storage, Virtual Machines, Logic Apps, PowerShell Commands, CLI Commands, Machine Learning, AI, Azure Cognitive Services, DevOps, etc. Not only that, I do have good real-time experience in designing and developing cloud-native data integrations on Azure or AWS, etc. I hope you will learn from these practical Azure tutorials. Read more.
