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Managing VM disks

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Managing VM disks

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- [Instructor] In this lecture, we're going to look at managing disks that are attached to virtual machines. So I have here a virtual machine I created earlier and when I created it, I just created it with one disk. And when we're viewing it in the portal, we can go down into Settings and Disks, and we can see our OsDisk here. So there's a few things we can do When we look at disks, if we go and click on the disk itself, we can go into it and we'll see that it's an actual object in its own right within Azure. And we can see some basic information such as the disk size, the storage type, and so on. Now this is the OS disk, so if we did anything to this disk itself, it might cause problems with the VM. So I'm going to demonstrate what we can do with disks by creating some data disks. So the first thing I'm going to do is, within the virtual machine Disks pane, I'm going to go ahead and create and attach a new disk. So the first thing I'll do is I will give it a name and then we tell it…

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