Welcome to Working with Disks! In the course of your day-to-day operations, you'll often find that you need to perform tasks such as snapshotting or encryption. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Azure data disks
- Snapshotting an Azure virtual machine
- Creating
- VMs from Snapshots
- Encrypting virtual machine disks
This chapter also includes hands-on exercises that allow you to practice your skills with data disks, snapshots, and encryption.
When all is said and done, you'll know how to create and attach data disks, snapshot them, encrypt them, and even deploy new VMs from them.
