Create and Add a Storage Disk in Virtual Machine

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.

 

Read my previous article:

• Create Windows Virtual Machine in Azure cloud

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:

• HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
• SSD (Solid State Drive)

By reading this article, you will learn about how to create and add a storage disk in virtual machine.

 

Prerequisites:

• Azure cloud account
• Edge (or) other browsers
• Stable internet connection
• Windows Virtual machine in Azure (Running state)

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.

 

 

Step 3

 

Click the “Name” dropdown list and then select the “Create Disk” option.

 

 

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. 

 

 

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.

 

 

Step 6

 

Our disk size is selected as our requirement, finally click the “Create” Button.

 

 

Step 7

 

Now, we select the created disk name and click the “Save button”.

 

 

Adding Storage Disk in Virtual machine

 

Step 1

 

Click the “Overview” and then click the “Restart” button, our virtual machine is restarting.

 

 

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.

 

 

Step 4

 

In the computer management window, select “Disk Management”. In the center panel, display the unallocated storage disk.

 

 

Step 5

 

Right-click the Unallocated disk and then click the “New Simple Volume”. When configuration wizard opens click the Next button.

 

 

Step 6

 

Give the volume a label name and then click the next button. Finally, the disk can start formatting for normal use.

 

 

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.