Managed Disks

With the progress, Microsoft is changing and evolving the Azure environment, Microsoft recently added a new option to virtual machines in Azure.

The option is called Managed Disks. These disks are abstracted from the Storage account and Storage account limitations.

You only have to specify the type which can be standard or premium storage and the size of the disk you need, and Azure creates and manages the disk.

Currently Microsoft offers you following types of Managed Disks:

Disk type	Disk name	Disk size
Premium	P10	128 GB
Premium	P20	512 GB
Premium	P30	1024 GB
Standard	S4	32 GB
Standard	S6	64 GB
Standard	S10	128 GB
Standard	S20	512 GB
Standard	S30	1024 GB

To create a virtual machine with Managed Disks, you can do so during the deployment process, we will go through later in the chapter.

If you want to manage the disks of a virtual machine, you now can find a configuration blade within the virtual machine settings where you can Edit or Add data disk the managed disks of the VM.

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