Azure Virtual Machines

The problem is that it's not currently supported. The only way around this is to export your managed disks and recreate your VM. If you just use managed data disks (and the OS one is unmanaged) then you don't have to recreate the VM. But in both cases you're going to experience some downtime... »

In order to enable deployment of preconfigured environments or to scale your IAAS workloads you may need clone your VMs. The process normally involves removing computer-specific information from the machine, capturing the VM image and then using this image when provisioning new VM instances. »