A data disk is a managed disk that's attached to a virtual machine to store application data, or other data you need to keep.
How to go about creating and attaching data disk to a Windows 11 VM on Azure?
Firstly, login to your azure account and create a windows 11 virtual machine following the easy steps:
1 - Click on virtual machine
2 - Click on create
Then click on azure virtual machine
3 - Choose your subscription
4 - Create new resource group
5 - Type your virtual machine name
6 - Choose your region
7 - Choose a particular zone
8 - Choose a security type
9 - Choose an image in this case windows 11
10 - Choose a size from the drop-down of your choice
11 - Pick a username
12 - Input password
13 - Confirm your password
14 - Click on 'allow selected ports'
15 - Choose any port under select inbound ports
16 - Click on box for confirmation
17 - Click on disks to go to the next page
18 - Choose an OS Disk size
19 - Choose an OS disk type
20 - Click on delete with VM
Creating a disk data
24 - Click on 'Create and attach a new disk'
25 - Name your data disk
26 - Choose disk size
27 - Click delete with VM
28 - Click on OK
29 - Go to review and create page
30 - Click on create
Wait until the deploying process is complete...
31 - Once the deployment is complete, click on ' Go to resource'
32 - Click on connect
33 - Next, click on download RDP file
34 - open the location of the downloaded file
35 - Double click on the downloaded file
36 - Click on connect
37 - Enter your password
38 - Click yes
39 - Click on next
40 - Click on accept
41 - Right click on the windows icon on your newly opened windows 11 VM
42 - Then click on disk management
43 - Click on OK
44 - Scroll down to disk 2, right click on the box and select new simple volume
45 - Click on next about 3 times on the wizard box
46 - Click on finish
You will notice a new volume F. That's the newly created data disk as shown in the image below
47 - Open your file explorer on your Windows 11 VM, then click on this PC to access the data disk
You now see the new data disk we've created as shown in the image below
To rename your data disk, right click on the new volume F and click show more options
And then rename it ...
And there you have it!
A data disk for storing application data and other forms of data.
NOTE: In the image above, the disk labelled A is the OS Disk, the disk labelled B is the temporary disk while the one labelled C is called the data disk.
What though is the difference between the OS disk, Data disk and Temporary disk?
OS disk - It only contains the OS information including the boot volume. It is not advised to store application information here.
Data disk - A data disk is a managed disk that's attached to a virtual machine to store application data, or other data you need to keep. The size of the virtual machine determines how many data disks you can attach to it and the type of storage you can use to host the disks.
Temporary disk - The temporary disk provides short-term storage for applications and processes, and is intended to only store data such as page files, swap files, or SQL Server tempdb. Data on the temporary disk may be lost during a maintenance event, when you redeploy a VM, or when you stop the VM.
To learn more about storage disks, click here.
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