How to create vm using custom image from different storage account, on Azure

Question

I\'m currently using this template to create a vm by custom image. For the OS Disk part:

\"storageProfile\": {
  \"osDisk\": {
    \"name\": \"[concat(variab         


        

Answer 1

I don't know how other answers are upvoted. OP post is correct - custom image and VM os disk needs to be in the same storage account which is a great limitation. Just tried that using the API and I'm getting:

"MsRestAzure::AzureOperationError: ConflictingUserInput: Source and destination storage accounts for disk test-terminate are different."