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Create A Data Disk In The Virtual Machine In Azure

This article will create a data disk in the Azure virtual machine.

Steps

To create a data disk in the virtual machine: -

Once the data disk is created in the Azure portal, configure the disk by login into the virtual machine using RDP.

To configure the data disk in the virtual machine: -

Here, you can see the new disk (marked as Unknown). Right-click on the disk and click on "Initialize"

A pop-up message will come to confirm that data (if any) will be erased. As we have just created the data disk and we do not have any data inside the data disk, we can click on the "Yes" option

Once the data disk is initialized, right-click on the disk again and click on the "New Volume" option

A wizard will come to create a new volume. In the first window, click on the "Next" button

On the second screen, you have the option to select the server and the disk. Select the server and the disk and click on the "Next" button

In the next window, you can specify the file system settings. Click on the "Next" button

In the "Results" tab, you can see the progress of the creation of the new volume

Once all the tasks are completed, click on the "Close" button to close the window

You can see the data disk created in the virtual machine.

While creating the data disk, you have platform-managed-key encryption.

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There are certain points about disk encryption: -

The platform-managed-key encryption means that the encryption key is managed by the platform
This encryption is enabled by default when creating the data disk
Data is first encrypted and then stored in the disk
At the time of reading the data, the data is first unencrypted and then read

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