Learn Azure Administration - Second Edition

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Configuring and Managing Disks

We had a chance to talk about Azure managed disks in Chapter 5, where we discussed Azure Virtual Machines. In this chapter, we’ll extend our knowledge by diving into more advanced and more detailed topics. Knowledge from this chapter will be helpful when you’re managing VM-based infrastructure in Azure, as lots of the operations we’ll perform are often the bread and butter of day-to-day Azure administrator tasks.

The topics that will be covered in this part of this book are aimed at operations related to Azure disks, which we can swap, optimize, and reuse across multiple machines. These operations are also important for backup and restore processes as, sometimes, you may need to move a disk from one machine to ...