Managed Disks

Managed Disks

Simplest option Lower management overhead as Azure manages the storage accounts. Only LRS replication mode is currently available...

Unmanaged Disks

DIY option Management overhead (20000 IOPS per storage account limit) Supports all replication  modes  (LRS, ZRS, GRS, RA-GRS)...

VM Disk Storage Types

Standard Storage: Mostly used for General Work Loads like dev/test....

Disk SKU Offers Various Standards:

Premium SSD Disks offer high-performance, low-latency disk support for I/O-intensive applications and production workloads. Standard SSD Disks are a cost-effective storage option optimized for workloads that need consistent performance at lower IOPS levels.  Standard HDD Disks can be used for Dev/Test scenarios and less critical workloads at the lowest cost....

Performance Tier

A baseline performance tier is set based on your provisioned disk size. You can set a higher performance tier when your application requires this to meet higher demand and return to the initial baseline performance tier once this period is complete. When upgrading the performance tier, you will be billed at the upgraded tier until you return to the baseline tier....

Benefits Of Managed Disks

Managed Infrastructure: The underlying infrastructure is fully managed by not Microsoft Azure and also you no need to worry about managing, provisioning,take and configuration it will taken care of by the Microsoft Azure. Availability: Microsoft Azure ensure the disks which are managed will be available 99.99%. Low Cost: Disks which are managed by the Microsoft Azure will more cost saving when compared to unmanaged disks because in unmanaged disks you can’t scale up and down the disks depending up on the traffic. So once you fixed the storage size you are going to use same size if there load or not having load nu managed disks can be scale down depending upon the load by which you can reduce the cost. Automated Backups: The disks which are managed using Microsoft Azure will gone through automated backups which can be used for later or you can take an snapshot of the backup and use it for creating new disks. Dynamic Resizing: The resizing of the disk will be done depending upon the incoming traffic load if there is huge traffic if will scale up and if the traffic is low it will be scale down....

Integration With Availability Zones

Integrating the Azure storage disk which is fully managed by the Microsoft Azure with different availability zone will increases the availability of the disk. Once you crated an managed Azure storage disk it will automatically replicates the data present in the disk to multiple availability zones which will increase the availability and helps in the disaster recovery (DR). TO know more about microsoft azure regions refer to Microsoft Azure – What are Regions and Availability Zones....

Security Microsoft Azure- Disk Storage in Microsoft Azure

The Azure disk will be secured in different ways some of them are mentioned below....

Disk Roles

Microsoft azure provide three main disk roles as following:...

Disk Allocation And Performance

Disk allocation and performance will be consider on the many factories like mentioned following....

Pricing of Disk Storage In Microsoft Azure

Disk Type Price per GB per month Managed Standard $0.022 Managed Premium $0.125 Managed Ultra Disk $0.25 Unmanaged Standard $0.015 Unmanaged Premium $0.10...

Disk Storage In Microsoft Azure – FAQ’s

1. What Is Disk vs Storage In Azure?...