100 Days of Cloud (Azure Edition)

Day 8 of Cloud (Azure Edition)

AZURE

Nyan

12/1/2025

Day 8: Attach Managed Disk to Azure Virtual Machine

Task:The Nautilus DevOps team is migrating services to Azure. They are breaking down tasks to ensure better control and optimization. You are tasked with attaching an existing data disk to a virtual machine (VM).

An existing VM named xfusion-vm and a managed disk named xfusion-disk already exist in the East US region.

  • Attach the disk xfusion-disk to the VM xfusion-vm as a data disk.

  • Ensure the disk is attached to the VM xfusion-vm.

Make sure that the virtual machine initialization has been completed before submitting this task.

Use below given Azure Credentials: (You can run the `showcreds` command on the `azure-client` host to retrieve these credentials)

Day 8 of 100 Days of Cloud (Azure Edition) : Solution

  1. Type resource group in the search portal to lookup the existing resource group.

Day 8 of 100 Days of Cloud (Azure Edition) : Cheers

  1. Choose the existing VM called xfusion-vm.

  2. Select the settings and choose Disks.

  3. Choose the Attach existing disks.

  1. Choose LUN (Logical Unit) as 0.

  2. Choose the existing data disk (xfusion-disk) as data disk and click apply.