Introduction

In a real-world scenario, your physical machine is running out of storage. You need to buy a physical hard drive to store a small amount of data for a small duration of time you spend more money.
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At the same time you’re running a virtual machine in Azure, that virtual machine needs additional storage, what can you do? You cannot buy and install hard disk from locally. Azure can provide a storage disk to store data in a cloud-like physical hard drive.
A storage disk is the same concept as a physical hard disk, it's available in two types:
By reading this article, you will learn about how to create and add a storage disk in virtual machine.
Prerequisites:

Creating a Storage Disk

Step 1
Login to Azure Portal
Step 2
Go to the virtual machine dashboard, select “Disks” and then click the “Add” button.
Create And Add A Storage Disk In Virtual Machine
Step 3
Click the “Name” dropdown list and then select the “Create Disk” option.
Create And Add A Storage Disk In Virtual Machine
Step 4
In “Create a Managed disk” page, fill the disk name, resource group name. Next, click the “Change Size” option to select the disk type and size.
Create And Add A Storage Disk In Virtual Machine
Step 5
In “Select Disk Size pane”, first select the “Account type” as the standard HDD.
Azure can provide many disk size variants, now I am selecting 64 GB disk and finally, click the OK button.
Create And Add A Storage Disk In Virtual Machine
Step 6
Our disk size is selected as our requirement, finally click the “Create” Button.
Create And Add A Storage Disk In Virtual Machine
Step 7
Now, we select the created disk name and click the “Save button”.
Create And Add A Storage Disk In Virtual Machine

Adding Storage Disk in Virtual machine

Step 1
Click the “Overview” and then click the “Restart” button, our virtual machine is restarting.
Create And Add A Storage Disk In Virtual Machine
Step 2
Afterward, connect your virtual machine by using the RDP software.
Step 3
Right-click “This PC” and select “Manage” in the popup menu.
Create And Add A Storage Disk In Virtual Machine
Step 4
In the computer management window, select “Disk Management”. In the center panel, display the unallocated storage disk.
Create And Add A Storage Disk In Virtual Machine
Step 5
Right-click the Unallocated disk and then click the “New Simple Volume”. When configuration wizard opens click the Next button.
Create And Add A Storage Disk In Virtual Machine
Step 6
Give the volume a label name and then click the next button. Finally, the disk can start formatting for normal use.
Create And Add A Storage Disk In Virtual Machine
Step 7
Next, open “This PC” to check the disk.

Summary

Our storage disk is successfully added in our virtual machine, and it's ready to store our virtual machine data.
Create And Add A Storage Disk In Virtual Machine