Best Practices and Recommendations for Handling Unallocated Storage on Azure Virtual Desktops (AVDs)
Description of Issue: We have observed that additional storage purchased or selected during the creation of Azure Virtual Desktops (AVDs) is not automatically allocated to any drive. This has led to challenges in utilizing the extra storage effectively,…
Azure Migration Storage
I have migrated a VM from on-premises to Azure VM using the Azure Migration service. After doing so, I wanted to cleanup and remove the migration resources. I was able to remove everything with the exception of the migration storage and disk resources.…
Cost increase in converting from LRS to ZRs - Azure VM's Disks
Hi Team, We currently have active Azure Virtual Machines with the following configurations in UAE North Region: Some machines are neither in an availability set nor in an availability zone. Other machines are enabled with only an availability set,…
I have expanded Azure drive but but it does not take effect on my WM
I have expanded storage on my Azure account from 500GB to 1 TB. This is not visible on my mapped disk drive on my WM. I have restarted the WM with no effect. How can I make use of this new disk space I am paying for?
When scaling up L-series VM in Azure, is the data on the NVMe disks preserved?
Say we have our 1.8 TB database mounted to the local NVMe disks on a L8s_v2 machine. If we scale up the VM to a L16s_v2 would the data be migrated to the new 3.6 TB disk?
I built a blob storage mount in linux machines using blobfuse, I like to setup sftp users integration to this blob account one sftp user as Read permissions and other sftp user have R/W permissions. Kindly help me is there any possible ways?
I have sftp storage account "devmiieasftpblobstgacc01", I mounted one of the container of this account to few of linux machines using blobfuse. This was done successful by connecting with access key. Now i like to give an access to container…
Error Encountered While Deleting VM and Disks in Azure
I attempted to delete a VM yesterday, but it is marked for deletion and I'm unable to perform any updates or other actions. The status indicates that the VM is marked for deletion. Additionally, I've noticed that the disks are not detached, showing…
Need to export VM details along with data disk details
Hi Team, I need to export the Azure VM list along with the details of data disks attached with their sizes. Is it possible to get via GUI or need to use resource graph explorer. Thanks.
Cleaning Up Azure Compute Galleries and Snapshots to Reduce Costs
I’m trying to reduce costs by cleaning up some of the Azure Compute Galleries and snapshots that have accumulated over time in my environment, but I have a couple of questions: If I delete a snapshot, is there any chance it could impact my currently…
Is there a way to restore deleted Disks. If backup is not enabled. If yes, please let us know to retrieve that the disks
I have accidentally deleted disks. Is there a way to restore the disk.
Hey Community i am trying to create disk available alert for the Azure
hey i am trying to create alert using since the recent update on log analytics agent i am unable t create alert can someone please guide mw
How do I know what is on a managed disk and what is not?
I received the notification that I should migrate my data to Azure managed disks before unmanaged disks are retired on 30 September 2025. However, I am not sure what constitutes a managed disk and what does not. How does one know this? I would…
I would like to know if there is any cost associated with enabling the feature of LiveRezise in azure Disk and AKS PVs?
I would like to know if there is any cost associated with enabling the feature of LiveRezise in azure Disk and AKS PVs? Microsoft.compute/LiveResize
How to migrate unmanaged disks to managed on production SQL cluster
Hello, I have to perform migration of azure disks from unmanaged to managed on our production SQL servers, which are in availability set with the sql firewall windows server in it as well. This is still in planning process, but i think i need some…
Automating switch between Standard HDD and Premium Disk on VMs
How can we have an automation that changes our VM's disk type to Standard HDD when we turn them off and then changes them to Premium before turning the VM back on? Is there any ready-to-use method available?
Hi I would like to change a disk on Azure from 128 GiB Premium SSD to a 512gb Standard SSD.
Firstly is it possible to do so, secondly will it carry over my data? When selecting the plan and storage I want I do receive this warning. "Changes to the disk size can be made only when the disk is unattached or the managing virtual machine(s) are…
How can I get disk data (total size and used size in GB) for multiple Win VMs ?
How can I fetch or extract disk data that includes the total disk size and used disk size based on drive instances (e.g., C: , E: & other drives) across multiple Windows VMs? I don’t need the data in percentage. I tried the following query, but…
How can i reduce the Azure virtual machine data disk size, and what are the possible ways to decrease the virtual machine's data disk ?
How can i reduce the Azure virtual machine data disk size, and what are the possible ways to reduce the virtual machine's data disk ? For example:- Currently my virtual machine data disk size is 130gb i want decrease size by 100, but azure portal does…
Clarify when certain disk operations entail a background copy of data
Microsoft docs say the following about when the background copy process is invoked for disks: The following control plane operations might move the disk between storage locations, and cause increased latency: Update the storage type. Detach and…
When creating a managed disk from another disk, does it have the same background copy performance penalty as when creating from a snapshot?
For creating a disk from a snapshot, Microsoft docs say: When you create a managed disk from a snapshot, it starts a background copy process. You can attach a disk to a VM while this process is running but you'll experience performance impact. Is the…