Disk Storage in Azure
Mounting Disks on Linux VM’s
- Refer Here for the article about attaching disks to linux
- Create an ubuntu vm with additional data disk of size 1GiB
- list block devices
- Create file system (format) with xfs
- Now mount the device onto /tools folder
- Follow the instructions Refer Here to persist mounts
Snapshots of Disk
- Snapshot is backup of the disk
- Lets create a snapshot (Full Backup)
- In Azure, the disk is scoped to a region and snapshot is also scoped to a region. i.e. Snapshot created from one region can be used to create a disk in the same region
- If you want to create a disk in other region, first copy snapshot to that region
Exercise:
- Mount the disk onto linux machine
- Create partitions (optional)
- Increase the size of disk
- Use the unallocated storage anywhere on vm
Next Steps:
- Azure Backup for Disks/VMS/Databases (Azure Backup Center)
- Other Storage
- Fileshare
- Table
- Queue
- Encryption
