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<\/a><\/p>\nOpen the Azure Portal, and go to Disks in the navigation bar on the left \u2013 this is where all managed disks are listed. Click + Add. A Create Manage Disk blade appears. Enter the following information:<\/p>\n
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- Name<\/strong>: Give the new managed disk a name. My naming standard names the disk after the VM with a suffix to denote a role. In my example, it\u2019s an OS disk.<\/li>\n
- Subscription<\/strong>: Select the subscription in your tenant. Note that you must create the managed disk in the same subscription as the storage account that contains the blob \u2013 you can always move the disk to a different subscription later.<\/li>\n
- Resource Group<\/strong>: Restore the disk to a new or existing resource group \u2013 typically this is where the virtual machine will be.<\/li>\n
- Location<\/strong>: Pick the region of the desired VM, which must also match the storage account.<\/li>\n
- Account Type<\/strong>: What kind of managed disk do you want \u2013 Standard (HDD) or Premium (SSD). You can change this later, one of the nice features of managed disks.<\/li>\n
- Source Type<\/strong>: I have selected Storage Blob \u2013 this is how the restored (or uploaded) VHD is stored.<\/li>\n
- Source Blob<\/strong>: Click browse, and navigate to & select the VHD blob that was restored\/uploaded.<\/li>\n
- OS Type<\/strong>: If this is a data disk then select either Windows or Linux, depending on the guest OS in the VHD.<\/li>\n
- Size<\/strong>: To make like easy, select the size of the existing blob. I restored a managed disk to a blob, so I went with the original size of 128 GiB.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nOnce you\u2019re happy with all the settings, click Create. In my case, with a 128 GiB VHD, the creation just around 30 seconds:<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nNow you can either create a VM from the disk or attach it as a data disk to an existing VM in the Azure Portal \u2013 life is easy with managed disks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Subscription<\/strong>: Select the subscription in your tenant. Note that you must create the managed disk in the same subscription as the storage account that contains the blob \u2013 you can always move the disk to a different subscription later.<\/li>\n