Creating a Virtual Machine with storage from Storage Account.

• Create a Resource Group
• Create a storage account.
• Create a Virtual Machine and in the disks page select storage account

Some Terms/Options to Understand

Storage Account Options/Terms

• Containers:
  • Logical grouping of blobs
  • Upload any file.
  • Individual file cannot have size grater than 4.7 TB
• Blob Types:
  • Block Blob:
    • Any file is considered to be block blob.
    • File is stored in Blocks. Default Block size is 4MB
  • Page Blob:
    • Blob for Hard disk (VHD)
  • Append Blob:
    • Log files
• Performance
• Account Kind
• Replication
• Access Tier

Azure VM Disks

• DataDisk:
  • Non Ephemeral Storage
  • Can be from Storage Account or Managed Disk
• TempDisk:
  • Ephemeral Storage (Delete the VM data in this disk will be lost)
  • Not from Storage Account or Managed Disk

Disk Operations

• Changing Disk Size:
  • Yes, when VM is stopped.
• Adding Disks to VM:
  • Tightly Coupled to VM instance Size.