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Create A Data Disk In The Virtual Machine In Azure

Steps

1. Click on the virtual machine to go to the detail screen
2. In the detail screen, click on the Disks option from the left-hand side menu

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3. When you click on the Disks, a screen will appear to enter the data disk
4. Click on the Create and attach a new disk button

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5. Enter the Disk name and Size (GiB) and click on the Save button

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Configure Data Disk In The Virtual Machine

1. Log in to the virtual machine using RDP
2. Open Server Manager → File and Storage Services

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3. Go to the Disks option

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

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5. 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

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

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

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8. 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

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9. In the third screen, select the drive letter and click on the Next button

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

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11. Finally, we have a confirmation screen. Click on the Create button

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

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

Encryption In Data Disk

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