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    Azure Disk storage provides virtual hard disks (VHDs) stored as page blobs for use by Azure virtual machines. There are three types of disks - standard HDD for cost effectiveness, standard SSD for more consistent performance, and premium SSD for high performance I/O workloads. Disks can be unmanaged, where the user manages the storage account, or managed disks where Azure handles account management. Azure Backup Service is used to backup disks through snapshots stored in recovery vaults.

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    Azure Disk storage provides virtual hard disks (VHDs) stored as page blobs for use by Azure virtual machines. There are three types of disks - standard HDD for cost effectiveness, standard SSD for more consistent performance, and premium SSD for high performance I/O workloads. Disks can be unmanaged, where the user manages the storage account, or managed disks where Azure handles account management. Azure Backup Service is used to backup disks through snapshots stored in recovery vaults.

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    Azure Disk storage provides virtual hard disks (VHDs) stored as page blobs for use by Azure virtual machines. There are three types of disks - standard HDD for cost effectiveness, standard SSD for more consistent performance, and premium SSD for high performance I/O workloads. Disks can be unmanaged, where the user manages the storage account, or managed disks where Azure handles account management. Azure Backup Service is used to backup disks through snapshots stored in recovery vaults.

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    Azure Storage services – Disk Storage

    Azure Disk storage Overview


    • Virtual machines in Azure use disks as a place to store an operating system, applications, and
    data. All Azure virtual machines have at least two disks – a Windows operating system disk and a
    temporary disk.

    • Both the operating system disk and the image are virtual hard disks (VHDs) stored in an Azure
    storage account. The VHDs used in Azure are .vhd files stored as page blobs in a standard or
    premium storage account in Azure

    • Virtual machines also can have one or more data disks, that are also stored as VHDs.
    Storage Account
    Disk storage

    OS Disk Data Disk

    Azure Virtual Unmanaged /


    machine Managed disks
    Types of Disks

    • Standard HDD disks are backed by HDDs, and deliver cost-effective storage. Standard HDD
    storage can be replicated locally in one datacenter, or be geo-redundant with primary and
    secondary data centers

    • Standard SSD disks are designed to address the same kind of workloads as Standard HDD
    disks, but offer more consistent performance and reliability than HDD. Best suited for applications
    like web servers that do not need high IOPS on disks. Where available, Standard SSD disks are
    the recommended deployment option for most workloads.

    • Premium SSD disks are backed by SSDs, and delivers high-performance, low-latency disk
    support for VMs running I/O-intensive workloads.

    A link to comparison of types of disks has been provided in the resources section of this
    lecture. It is important that you go through the same.
    Unmanaged and Managed disks

    • Unmanaged disks are the traditional type of disks that have been used by VMs. With these disks,
    you create your own storage account and specify that storage account when you create the disk.
    Make sure you don't put too many disks in the same storage account, because you could exceed
    the scalability targets of the storage account (20,000 IOPS, for example), resulting in the VMs
    being throttled.

    • Managed Disks handles the storage account creation/management in the background for you,
    and ensures that you do not have to worry about the scalability limits of the storage account. You
    simply specify the disk size and the performance tier (Standard/Premium), and Azure creates and
    manages the disk for you.

    Microsoft recommends that you use managed disks for all new VMs and convert your
    previous unmanaged to managed disks.
    Disks backup

    Azure Backup
    Service
    Backup
    extension

    OS Disk Data Disk 1 Data Disk n

    Data
    Transfer

    Snapshot Recovery
    Service Vault

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