Azure virtual machines use disks to store the operating systems, applications, and data. Choosing an appropriate disk size and configuration is crucial when creating a virtual machine. You want to make sure that you size and configure your disks to match whatever workload the server will be handling. The following exercises cover deploying virtual machine data disks and managing them.
The next few exercises will teach you about:
- The difference between OS disks and temporary disks
- What Data Disks are
- The difference between standard disks and premium disks
- Disk performance
- How to create data disks
- How to attach a data disk to a virtual machine
- How to prepare a data disk for use
When you finish these exercises, you will have a solid understanding of the different types of Azure disks, how to create them via PowerShell, and how to manage them via PowerShell...