Disk Storage activities

Windows

• Lets create an additional disk of 2 GB to an windows server
• This additional disk will be partioned into two volumes of 1 GB each
• Now lets increase the disk size to 3 GB and increase the size of first partition to 2 GB
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Linux

• In Linux, we have disks
• Disk can be partitioned (option)
• Partitioned disks can be mounted to a folder
• Refer Here for steps to partition and mount disks

Activity 1: Attaching, Mounting and Extending Disks

• Attaching disks to AWS EC2 Linux Instance (Ubuntu)
• Create Partitions
• Extend partitions
• Repeat the similar activity on Azure
• Watch Classroom Recording.

Activity 2: Backup of the Disks

• In Cloud, We use a term called as snapshot to refer a backup of disk
• Creating a disk backup manually in AWS
  
  
  
• AWS Snapshots are incremental in nature
• Creating a disk backup manually in Azure
  
• Azure gives incremental as well as full backup options

• Using Snapshots
• we can create new disks with the same content.
• If the snapshot has OS in it we can create AMI/Azure VM Image
• Copy the snapshot to other regions
• Share the snapshot with other accounts.
• Automating Snapshot creation:
  • Use Snapshot policies
  • Azure Backup/AWS Backup