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
- Block Blob:
- 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.