Azure – Attatching a P6 x 2 Managed Disk to the Azure VM Machine

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Upon following the instruction to created a data disk for my B1S UK South VM from the following source:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/attach-managed-disk-portal

The only option I get is to attached an unmanaged disk. There is no option to Create Managed Disk in Step 6. I'm wanting to mount two P6 64GB SSD disks in line with Azures Free Products.

The image below is the only screen I see when clicking Add Data Disk – no option to add a Managed (P6 SDD) disk anywhere.

Click here to view the screen I see when Clicking "Add Data Disk"

Has anyone else had this issue and if so, how did they resolved this?

Best Answer

That's because you created the VM using unmanaged disks and now the only option you have is to use this type of disk. If you want to use managed disks, you first need to convert the VM from unmanaged to managed disks. Follow this tutorial:

Convert a Windows virtual machine from unmanaged disks to managed disks

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Windows – Slow disk performance on Azure Virtual Machine

Bit late to the party here, but for what it's worth "attached" SSDs in Azure have their IOPs throttled based on the machine size. It wasn't mentioned in the pricing anywhere but I raised this issue as a ticket with technical support when they referred me to the blog post below.

See this link: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/10/06/d-series-performance-expectations/

Azure – is it possible to use azure managed disks with azure scale sets, as an OS disk

For now, we can't use managed disk to create Azure VM directly.
But we can create a managed image of managed vm or a snapshot via PowerShell, after that we can use this new image to create azure VM.

$vmName = "myVM" 
$rgName = "myResourceGroup" 
$location = "EastUS" 
$imageName = "myImage"
Stop-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Name $vmName -Force
Set-AzureRmVm -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Name $vmName -Generalized
$vm = Get-AzureRmVM -Name $vmName -ResourceGroupName $rgName
$image = New-AzureRmImageConfig -Location $location -SourceVirtualMachineId $vm.ID 
New-AzureRmImage -Image $image -ImageName $imageName -ResourceGroupName $rgName

More information about generalize vm and create image, please refer to this link.

By the way, the comment you added is right, we can use image in this way.

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