Add a data disk to a virtual machine

- [Instructor] Did you know that a Microsoft best practice…is to add a data disk to your Azure Virtual Machines?…And you will use this disk to store your apps and data on.…In this week's weekly insight…we are going to learn how to attach a data disk…to an Azure Virtual machine.…We're currently looking at an Azure Virtual Machine.…And you will see that we have two disks,…our C: Drive and our D: Drive.…D: Drive is used for temporary storage.…And Microsoft recommends that you do not store anything…on this disk…because this drive is subject to data loss.…

And there is even a warning about it.…Adding a new disk to a virtual machine is a two-step process…and we need to start in the Azure Portal.…In the virtual machine that we want to…add the disk to under disk.…We can see the current OS disk.…Now we just need to go ahead and add a data disk.…You can use an existing disk…or you an go ahead and create a new one.…And that's what we are going to do.…I am going to call it vm2datadisk.…Select your resource group.…

Next you will select the account type.…