top of page
Writer's pictureALIF Consulting

Azure Managed Disk

Updated: Jun 17

An Azure Managed Disk is similar to a physical disk that you would find in a physical on-prem server, but it's virtualized. It's a block level storage volume that's used with Azure VMs and is managed by Microsoft Azure.

For starters, managed disks are designed for 99.999% availability. That's five-nines of availability. To achieve this level of availability, there are three replicas of the data stored on each managed disk. This type of durability protects you from not only one but two failures of disk replicas.

Managed disks make it easy to deploy and scale VMs. Microsoft Azure allows up to 50,000 VM disks of a specific type per region in each subscription. This allows you to create thousands of virtual machines in one subscription. Because Azure supports so many disks, you can create VM scale sets that include up to 1000 VMs per set, provided you use a marketplace image.


Benefits of Managed Disk

  • Highly durable and available

  • Simple and scalable VM deployment

  • Integration with availability sets

  • Integration with Availability Zones

  • Azure Disk & Azure Backup Support


Azure managed disk offers four types of disk type

  • Ultra disks

  • Premium SSDs (solid-state drives)

  • Standard SSDs

  • Standard HDDs (hard disk drives)


Azure Managed Disk Comparison

Azure Managed Disk Comparison

Azure Managed Disk supports two types of redundancy

LRS

Locally redundant storage (LRS) replicates your data three times within a single data center in the selected region

ZRS

Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) synchronously replicates your Azure-managed disk across three Azure availability zones in the region you select. Each availability zone is a separate physical location with independent power, cooling, and networking.


Azure Managed Disk Encryption

Azure Managed Disk supports three types of encryption available including Azure Disk Encryption (ADE), Server-Side Encryption (SSE), and encryption at the host.

Azure Disk Encryption

ADE helps us to protect and safeguard the data to meet the security and compliance commitment. ADE provides the volume encryption through bit locker and DM-Crypt.

Server-Side Encryption

It is also referred to as encryption-at-rest or Azure Storage encryption) automatically encrypts data stored on Azure managed disks (OS and data disks) when persisting it to the cloud


Encryption at the host ensures that data stored on the VM host is encrypted at rest and flows encrypted to the Storage service. Disks with encryption at host enabled are not encrypted with SSE

215 views0 comments

Recent Posts

See All

Opmerkingen


bottom of page