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Manjunath Rao
Manjunath Rao

Reputation: 1511

Azure OS Disk naming convention

My Azure VM's OS disk's URI is as below: https://foxservice.blob.core.windows.net/vhds/Fox-APP-Service-0220170206160459.vhd

I have read in few blogs that the naming convention of the VHD "Fox-APP-Service-0220170206160459.vhd" has a "created date" embedded to it. Does anyone know what the number "0220170206160459" stands for?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 439

Answers (3)

Jason Ye
Jason Ye

Reputation: 13954

Fox-APP-Service-0220170206160459.vhd, Does anyone know what the number "0220170206160459" stands for?

Fox-APP-Service-0220170206160459.vhd

Fox-APP-Service-02 stand for VM name, 20170206160459 stand for created time.

For example, the VM name is jas, jasonvm and Fox-APP-Service-02, here is the screenshot:

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Upvotes: 0

micahmckittrick
micahmckittrick

Reputation: 1534

Andres is correct. The formatting correlates to the time the VHD was created.

It works like so:

Year Month Day Time (in UTC)

So 20170206160459 means the VHD was created Year: 2017 Month: 02 Day: 06 Time 16:04:59 UTC

Upvotes: 2

Andy T
Andy T

Reputation: 9881

I could take a guess and say that "20170206160459" corresponds to February 6, 2017 at 4:04:59 pm. I'm just not sure about the "02" at the beginning.

Upvotes: 1

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