Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

Adding data disks to an Azure VM using PowerShell

Now, you have your VM up and running and want to add data disks to it using PowerShell, so you need to follow the following steps. The disk I am going to create is a managed disk:

1. First off, you have to specify the disk configuration, which will be used during the data disk creation, as shown in the following cmdlet:

      $DiskConfiguration = New-AzureRmDiskConfig -Location       'West Europe' -DiskSizeGB 4095 -AccountType StandardLRS -OsType       Windows -CreateOption Empty

2. Once the configuration is created, you can start the creation of the data disk using the disk configuration variable for the disk parameter, as shown in the following cmdlet:

 New-AzureRmDisk -ResourceGroupName PacktPub -DiskName ...