Introduction to Azure Data Disks
Azure Data Disks play a crucial role in the world of cloud computing, especially within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. These disks serve as durable storage solutions for virtual machines (VMs) running on the Azure platform, enabling users to persistently store data, applications, and operating system files.
This article aims at creating azure data disk and initializing it.
***Step 1:*
Signing in to the Azure portal**
Go to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com in a web browser.
Log in to the portal with your User ID and password.
Step 2:
Search for Virtual Machine on the azure web browser and click on the virtual machine as shown below:
This will give access to the existing machines created. Since we have one created, there may be no need to create another one, you can just add the disk to the existing one otherwise, a new virtual machine can be created and while doing this, a disk is equally created or added.
Step 3:
To add the data disk, click on the machine you want to add it to; navigate on the machine pane to locate data disk, here, we are adding disk to IgeLinuxVm2:
Step 4:
To create the disk, click on create and attach a new disk
Step 5:
Click "Apply" to generate the fresh data disk.
The disk has been created:
Step 6:
The first thing to be done on installation of a new disk is to get it ready for use, i.e format:
So connect next to the LinuxVm2:
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