Adding Data Disks to VMs

At some point, you will require additional storage for your VMs. One option to introduce storage is to attach a data disk to your VM, which will serve as locally attached storage. In the exercise that follows, you will gain hands-on experience adding disks to your VMs.

Exercise 13.3: Adding Data Disks

In the following exercise, you will explore adding data disks to a VM in Azure:

1. Sign in to the Azure portal: https://portal.azure.com/home.
2. Create a new managed disk in Azure, set the resource group and subscription to the one you used in the previous exercise, and configure the Disk details options as follows:
   • Disk name: scalesetvm1_datadisk2
   • Region: Same as the VM
   • Availability zone: No infrastructure redundancy required
   • Source type: None
   • Size: 32 GiB

Figure 13.6: Managed disk – Disk details

3. Click Next : Encryption >. Configure the following setting:
   • Key Management: Platform-managed key
4. Click Next...