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 |
| 128 GB |
Premium |
| 512 GB |
Premium |
| 1024 GB |
Standard |
| 32 GB |
Standard |
| 64 GB |
Standard |
| 128 GB |
Standard |
| 512 GB |
Standard |
| 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.
