Azure Disks Storage Contd
- Adding disks to your existing vms

- When we add data disks they will be attached as disk storage to your vm, formatting and creating a volume/mount is our responsibility.
- To Change the size of exisitings vm’s should be in stopped (deallocated) state
- Mounting disks for linux vms


- Refer Here for attaching disks to linux vm
- Create a general purpose and premium page blob storage account
- Create a linux vm and try to use un managed disks
- Azure hint for not using unmanaged disks


- Azure hint for not using unmanaged disks
- The IOPS is set to storage account and is shared among all the page blobs of storage account.
- Managed Disk types: Refer Here
- Create a price estimate for a managed disk with 1 TB
- Ultra disk
- Premium SSD
- Standard SSD
- Standard HDD
- For disks we should be using only Managed disks
- Backup of a disk is called as snapshot
- Navigate to disk and select create snapshot (Manual Backups)

- For Backups Azure has Azure Backup Service

