Azure Managed Disks Contd..
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Disk sizes:
- Ultra ssd Refer Here
- Premium SSD Refer Here
- Standard SSD Refer Here
- Standard HDD Refer Here
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For the premium disks above 1 TiB we can use Azure Reservations where we get discounts for commitments up to 1 year Refer Here
Azure Disk Mounting
- Create a Windows Server
- Login into windows server and navigate to Server Manager => File and Storage Services
- Lets add one more data disk of size 4 GiB
- Now Right Click on the Volume and Bring online (if necessary). Now create a new volume and attach as F drive.
- Now lets try to resize the disk to 8 GB
- Now Select the volume and extend the volume for F:\ drive
- Lets see if we can reduce the size of the disk back to 4 GB
- Now lets try to increase the size of os disk
- Changes to os disk can be done only when vm is not running (deallocated)
- To Change temp disk size, resize the vm size.
- Try doing the same operations on linux
- To format the block device the command is
mkfs. - Popular file systems in linux are
xfs, ext4 - The disks will be at locations
/dev/sd<letter>
sudo mkfs -t xfs /dev/sdc
