Azure Managed Disk

• Azure is responsible for attaching disk to vm’s, Partitioning, formats and customizations post vm creation is user’s responsibility
• Backups of Disks are called as snapshots and can be automated or scheduled.

Managed Disk – Activities – 1

• Create a Windows VM with os,data disk and stop the vm, increase the size of data disk.
  
  
  
• Created a disk with 4 GB
  
• Now resize to the greater size
  
• Now try resize to smaller size and will not be allowed
• Type of the disk will be allowed once the vm is deallocated.
• Temp disk can be resized only by changing vm size

Exercise: Activity 2

• Create a linux vm with a Data disk of any size
• view all the disks on linux
• moun the data disk to some folder in linux
• resize the disk in Azure Portal to greater size.
• Now try to deal with size increase
• some linux commands to perform the above
  • lsblk
  • df -h
  • filesystems (xfs/ext4)
  • mount
  • mkfs
  • fstab
• Can we resize OS disk during vm is in running state ?

Terms

• Backup Options
  • Full Backup
  • Incremental Backup
• Restore Options
  • restore backup
  • point in time restore