上海-北京间通过Azure Storage的RA-GRS类型的存储账户进行快速复制

Azure的Blob存储分成多种类型，目前主要有：

其中RA-GRS可以在上海-北京两个数据中心间同步数据。并且，在第二个数据中心可以只读的方式读取这个存储账户中的Blob内容。

虽然GRS采用的是准实时同步，不是实时同步，但对很多需要快速恢复虚拟机、文件的情况已经足够使用。

本文将介绍，如何采用RA-GRS在第二个数据中心可以读的特性，在第二个数据中心快速的复制磁盘文件的功能。

下面的Powershell脚本将用户输入的VM信息获取OSDisk和DataDisk的信息，把这些Disk复制到用户指定的类型是RA-GRS的存储账户中，并将这些Disk在第二个数据中心复制到用户指定的目标存储账户中。具体步骤如下：

第一步，把VM的Disk复制到相同存储账户的临时Container：temp中。这一步的作用是将正在读写的Disk变成一个普通的VHD文件。

第二步，把LRS的temp中的VHD文件复制到RA-GRS的存储账户的temp中。这一步比较耗时，主要看Disk的实际使用量。

第三步，等待数分钟，Azure平台会自动将VHD文件复制到另外一个数据中心的Secondary存储账户中。

第四步，把VHD文件复制到另外一个数据中心的目标存储账户中，并生成Disk。后续可以使用这些Disk创建VM。

具体的PowerShell脚本如下：

 

function Copy-GRSVM {
param(
#The GRS_RA type storage account
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[String]$GRS_StorageAccountName,
#The Dest Storage account, in another region
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[String]$Dst_StorageAccountName,
#VM cloud service name
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[String]$VM_Service,
#VM Name
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[String]$VM_Name
)
#Get the VM, using the service name and vm name
$vm = get-azurevm -ServiceName $VM_Service -Name $VM_Name
#Get the VM OS type
$ostype = $vm.VM.OSVirtualHardDisk.OS
#Copy OS Disk
$oslink = $vm.vm.OSVirtualHardDisk.MediaLink.OriginalString
Copy-diskfromlink -GRS_StorageAccountName $GRS_StorageAccountName -Dst_StorageAccountName $Dst_StorageAccountName -link $oslink -isOSDisk $true -OSType $ostype
#copy Data Disk
$datadisks = $vm.vm.DataVirtualHardDisks
foreach ($datadisk in $datadisks)
{
$datadisklink = $datadisk.MediaLink.OriginalString
Copy-diskfromlink -GRS_StorageAccountName $GRS_StorageAccountName -Dst_StorageAccountName $Dst_StorageAccountName -link $datadisklink -isOSDisk $false -OSType $ostype
}
}
function Copy-diskfromlink {
param(
#The GRS_RA type storage account
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[String]$GRS_StorageAccountName,
#The Dest Storage account, in another region
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[String]$Dst_StorageAccountName,
#VM disk link
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[String]$link,
#VM OS type
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[String]$OSType,
#The disk is OS
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[boolean]$isOSDisk
)
$diskname = $link.Split("/")[-1]
$vmdiskctn = $link.Split("/")[-2]
#Get the VM storage account's name, keys and context.
$VM_StorageAccountName = $link.Split("/")[-3].Split(".")[0]
$vmsa = Get-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $VM_StorageAccountName
$vmsakey = Get-AzureStorageKey -StorageAccountName $vmsa.Label
$vmsactx = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName $vmsa.Label -StorageAccountKey $vmsakey.Primary
#Get the GRS_RA storage account's name, keys and context
$grsa = Get-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $GRS_StorageAccountName
$grsakey = Get-AzureStorageKey -StorageAccountName $grsa.Label
$grsactx = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName $grsa.Label -StorageAccountKey $grsakey.Primary
$grsactn = Get-AzureStorageContainer -Context $grsactx | Where-Object {$_.name -match "temp"}
#Define the connection string, which is the GRS_RA storage account secondary region endpoint
$Connect_str="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=" + $grsa.StorageAccountName + ";AccountKey=" + $grsakey.Primary + ";BlobEndpoint=http://" + $grsa.StorageAccountName + "-secondary.blob.core.chinacloudapi.cn;"
$grdstCtx = New-AzureStorageContext -ConnectionString $Connect_str
#Get the dest storage account's name, keys and context
$dstsa = Get-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $Dst_StorageAccountName
$dstsakey = Get-AzureStorageKey -StorageAccountName $dstsa.StorageAccountName
$dstsactx = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName $dstsa.StorageAccountName -StorageAccountKey $dstsakey.Primary
#In VM Storage account, if the temp container is not presented, create it.
$vmsactn = Get-AzureStorageContainer -Context $vmsactx | Where-Object {$_.name -match "temp"}
if ($vmsactn)
{write-host "temp container is already created!"}
else
{New-AzureStorageContainer -Name temp -Context $vmsactx}
#If the GRS_RA storage account type is not GRS_RA, change it to that.
if ($grsa.AccountType -eq "Standard_RAGRS")
{write-host "the storage account is GRS_RA"}
else
{Set-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $grsa.Label -Type Standard_RAGRS}
#In GRS_RA storage account, if the temp container is not presented, create it.
if ($grsactn)
{write-host "temp container is already created!"}
else
{New-AzureStorageContainer -Name temp -Context $grsactx}
#Copy VM OS disk to the same Storage account's temp conainter. This copy will be very fast. And is the only way to copy a starting VM's disk to a block blob file.
Start-AzureStorageBlobCopy -SrcBlob $diskname -SrcContainer $vmdiskctn -Context $vmsactx -DestContainer temp -DestBlob $diskname -DestContext $vmsactx -Force
#Monitor the copy status, wait until the copy success.
$i=0
while($true)
{
$i=$i+1
write-host "Copying vhd from VM Storage Account vhd container to temp container, elapsing"$i"0 seconds"
$cpstatus = Get-AzureStorageBlobCopyState -Container temp -Context $vmsactx -Blob $diskname
$percent=$cpstatus.BytesCopied/$cpstatus.TotalBytes * 100
write-host "Already copying" $percent "%"
if($cpstatus.Status -eq "Pending")
{Start-Sleep -s 10}
else
{
Write-Host "copy ok"
break}
}
#Copy the disk vhd file, from the VM storage temp container to the GRS_RA storage account temp container. This copy will spend lots of time.
Start-AzureStorageBlobCopy -SrcBlob $diskname -SrcContainer temp -Context $vmsactx -DestContainer temp -DestBlob $diskname -DestContext $grsactx -Force
#Monitor the copy status, wait until the copy success.
$i=0
while($true)
{
$i=$i+1
write-host "Copying vhd from VM Storage Account temp container to GRS Storage account temp container, elapsing"$i"0 seconds"
$cpstatus = Get-AzureStorageBlobCopyState -Container temp -Context $grsactx -Blob $diskname
$percent=$cpstatus.BytesCopied/$cpstatus.TotalBytes * 100
write-host "Already copying" $percent "%"
if($cpstatus.Status -eq "Pending")
{Start-Sleep -s 10}
else
{
Write-Host "copy ok"
break}
}
#Because the GRS_RA is best effort way to sync the data between two regions, wait 5 minutes to ensure the data is sync.
write-host "wait 5 minutes"
Start-Sleep -Seconds 300
#Check the disk is presented in the secondary region's GRS_RA storage account's temp folder.
while($true)
{
write-host "Check whether the disk is in the GRS storage account seconday site"
$grdstblob = Get-AzureStorageBlob -Container temp -Blob $diskname -Context $grdstCtx
if($grdstblob)
{ write-host "disk ok"
break}
else
{
Start-Sleep -s 10
}
}
#Copy the disk vhd file from the GRS_RA seconday region temp container to the dest storage account's vhds container
Start-AzureStorageBlobCopy -SrcContainer temp -SrcBlob $diskname -Context $grdstCtx -DestContainer vhds -DestContext $dstsactx -DestBlob $diskname
#Monitor the copy status, wait until the copy success.
$i=0
while($true)
{
$i=$i+1
write-host "Copying vhd from GRS Account secondary site temp container to destination Storage Account temp container, elapsing"$i"0 seconds"
$cpstatus = Get-AzureStorageBlobCopyState -Container vhds -Context $dstsactx -Blob $diskname
$percent=$cpstatus.BytesCopied/$cpstatus.TotalBytes * 100
write-host "Already copying" $percent "%"
if($cpstatus.Status -eq "Pending")
{Start-Sleep -s 10}
else
{
Write-Host "copy ok"
break}
}
#remove the temp vhd file in 2 temp containers
write-host "Removing the Temp vhd file"
Remove-AzureStorageBlob -Context $vmsactx -Container temp -Blob $diskname
Remove-AzureStorageBlob -Context $grsactx -Container temp -Blob $diskname
#Create the new disk from the vhd file
write-host "create disk from vhd file"
$dst_disk_link = "https://" + $Dst_StorageAccountName + ".blob.core.chinacloudapi.cn/vhds/" +$diskname
if($isOSDisk)
{
Add-AzureDisk -DiskName $diskname -MediaLocation $dst_disk_link -OS $OSType
}
else
{
Add-AzureDisk -DiskName $diskname -MediaLocation $dst_disk_link
}
}
Copy-GRSVM -GRS_StorageAccountName hweast -Dst_StorageAccountName hwnorth -VM_Service hwcentos65 -VM_Name hwcentos65-03