Disks in Azure
- Azure Disks Overview
- Create a Linux VM
- login into the VM and execute
sudo lsblk
sudo df -h
- Create a Windows VM
- Log into the VM and Navigate to This PC and make a note of drives available.
- Backup of a disk is called as snapshot
- Data disk is an additional disk which can be mounted to a virtual machine
- Partition a new disk and mount it
- If you want this partition to be loaded after restarts
- Lets try to do the same on windows server
- Azure managed disk types Refer Here
Azure Unmanaged Disks
- This disks are created in Azure Storage Account as VHD files
- Compared to un managed disks, Azure managed disks provide
- better scalability
- Azure has a limit of 20000 IOPS per storage account.
Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is one stop solution for backups and disaster recovery
