Export Virtual Machine Hardware Configuration

Is there any script or somewhere that I can grab specs hardware configuration including disk information & configuration?
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Hi,
Based on my experience, you can use Get-AzureDataDisk cmdlet to get a list of the data disks mounted on the Azure VM and use Get-AzureOSDisk to get the operating system disk object for the Azure VM.
However, for other hardware configurations, it seems that there is no such script for that. I recommend you to request a script in Azure script center:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/scripts/
Best regards,
Susie
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