Add a Data Disk and connect a File Share to a Virtual Machine

Introduction:

All virtual machines are provisioned with a single Operating System Disk and a Temporary drive which is a volatile disk (this means that if a virtual machine is shutdown, or re-deployed, the contents of the temporary disk are lost).Data disks can be added as part of a Virtual Machine build or afterwards. These can be provisioned as file shares or just local data storage.

Storage Account ‘File Shares’, can also be provisioned. This is cheaper than providing Data disks on Virtual machines, and provides a central location for storage.

In this Lab exercise, you will

Start with a pre-existing virtual network, with a single virtual machine (TestVM1). Then, you will complete the below tasks.

• Provision a Data Disk
  • Attach it to TestVM1
  • Create files for testing
• Re-Deploy TestVM1
  • Check results of Re-Deployment
• Create a Storage Account
  • Provision a File Share
    • Upload a file into the share
  • Connect TestVM1 to the File Share
    • Create a File in the File Share on TestVM1
  • Check the results in the storage account file share