Steps to attach a data disk to a Windows Azure VM

In this blog, we will show you the steps to attach a data disk to a Windows Azure VM through the Azure portal.

 

REQUIREMENTS

• Microsoft Azure Subscription.
• Windows VM

 

ATTACHING DATA DISK

• Log in to the Azure portal https://portal.azure.com using your subscription.

 

• We have already created a new VM named az-vm-01 with windows 2012 R2 version. Click on the virtual machines link from the service list.

 

• From the VM List, Click on the vm named az-vm-01.

 

• Click on the Disks link.

 

Note: Remember that number of data disks allowed is depend upon your virtual machine instance class (plans)

 

• Now click on the Add data disk option.

 

• For this demo, we named the new disk as az-vm-01-datadisk. Source type as New (empty disk). Account type as standard (HDD). Size as 1 GB.

 

• To select the existing storage, click on the browse button.

 

• For this demo, we select the existing storage grsstorageaccount01. To learn about creating new storage account, check out this blog https://www.assistanz.com/steps-to-create-a-vm-in-microsoft-azure/

 

• We have already created a separate container to store VHD files. Select the VHD container and click on Select button.

 

• To confirm the change, Click OK.

 

• To attach the data disk, Click on Save option.

 

• After few seconds the data disk was attached to the VM.

 

CONFIGURING THE DATA DISK

• Log in to the Azure VM az-vm-01 through RDP. You can find VM IP from the VM overview page.

 

 

• Once you logged into the VM, right-click on the start menu and select disk management.

 

• It prompts us to Initialize Disk, select the disk and click OK.

 

• To create a new volume, right-click on the disk 2 and select New simple volume.

 

• It opens a new wizard screen, From the welcome screen click Next.

 

• Specify the Volume size and click Next.

 

• Assign a drive letter and click Next.

 

• Specify a name for this drive, Filesystem type, and select the quick format option. Then click Next.

 

• Verify the settings and click Finish.

 

• The new disk is online now.

 

 

VERIFICATION

• Click on start menu and select MY PC.

 

• You can able to see the newly attached data disk as F: drive.

 

VIDEO

 

Thanks for reading this blog. We hope it was useful for you to learned to add a data disk in windows azure VM.