Azure Managed Disk

• Disks are managed by Azure
• They are highly scalable
• Disk Performance Tiers:
  • Standard SSD Refer Here HDD Refer Here
  • Premium Refer Here
  • Ultra Refer Here
• Experiment: Create a VM with Managed Disk and one Data Disk of size 1 GB

  • As of now our vm is attached to

    • OS Disk
    • Data Disk
    • Temp Disk

  • In the case of linux Os Disks and Temp Disk are already mounted, as a user you are supposed to mount Data Disks Refer Here For Linux Mount. Refer Here for Windows

  • Disks attached to the Virtual Machines cannot be resized when the vm is running.

Reservations:

• Disks can be reserved long term in azure and you can save the costs of the disk.
• This requires the disks to be of size atleast P30 and reservation for one year
• Along with reservation you have to select scope
  • Subscription
  • Resoruce Group
• Save the disk costs. For Azure Reservations Refer Here

Snapshots:

• Full backups of the disk can be created with snapshots.