40390 - Module 4, Lab 4

Lab Answer Key:  Module 4: Virtual Machines

Lab 4: Attaching Additional Storage by using the Azure portal

In this lab you will provision and configure additional storage on an Azure virtual machine using Windows Server Storage Spaces.

You must have the following to complete this lab:

• A stable and reliable Internet connection
• An active Microsoft Azure subscription
• Previously completed Module 4, Lab 3

Estimated time for completion: 20 Minutes

Exercise 1: Configuring Settings on the Virtual Machine

The tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Attach additional storage
2. Create a new Storage Space for the disks
3. Reset the lab environment (optional)

Task 1: Attach Additional Storage

In this task, you will attach two additional empty disks to the virtual machine.

1. In the Azure portal, in the LABVM configuration blade, click Disks.
2. Click Attach new.
3. Accept the default properties and click OK to attach the empty disk.
4. Repeat the same procedure to attach a second disk. In the LABVM configuration blade, click Disks.
5. Click Attach new.
6. Accept the default properties and click OK to attach the second empty disk.

Task 2: Create a New Storage Space for the Disks

1. If you have not connected yet to the LABVM in the previous lab, click Overview in the LABM blade and then click the Connect button. Use the following credentials to connect to the virtual machine:

• Login: demouser
• Password: DemoPa$$w0rd

Once you connected, in the Remote Desktop session window, wait until Windows Server Manager opens.

2. From within Windows Server Manager, click File and Storage Services.
3. Click Storage Pools.
4. Right-click the Primordial Storage Spaces entry and click New Storage Pool.
5. In the New Storage Pool Wizard¸ specify the name of the storage pool as StoragePool1, select PhysicalDisk2 and PhysicalDisk3 to be added to the storage pool, click Create, and once the wizard completes, click Close.
6. Right-click on the storage space, and click New Virtual Disk.
7. For disk name, type AzureDisk, and click Next.
8. For Storage Layout select Simple.
9. For the Provisioning type, select Fixed.
10. Set size to maximum.
11. Click Create
12. On the last page of the New Virtual Disk Wizard, ensure that the Create a volume when this wizard closes checkbox is selected and click Close.
13. In the New Volume Wizard, accept all the default settings, but if the default drive letter is E, change it to F. Complete the wizard and click Close.

At the end of the lab you should have a new 2 TB volume spread across two disks.

Task 3: Reset the lab environment (optional)

Note: To minimize charges associated with running the lab environment, you should consider removing its resources. This is the purpose of this task.

Note: If you want to keep your lab environment in place, then you might want to consider stopping all virtual machines. This will eliminate compute charges associated with keeping these virtual machines online. To ensure that these charges do not accrue, stop the virtual machines from the Azure portal and ensure that they are listed on the Virtual machines blade with the Stopped (deallocated) state (rather than Stopped).

1. In the Azure portal, in the hub menu, click Resource groups
2. On the Resource groups blade, click LabRG
3. On the LabRG blade, click Delete
4. On the Are you sure you want to delete "LabRG? blade, type LabRG in the TYPE THE RESOURCE GROUP NAME text box, and click Delete
5. On the Resource groups blade, click LabLinuxRG
6. On the LabLinuxRG blade, click Delete
7. On the Are you sure you want to delete "LabLinuxRG? blade, type LabLinuxRG in the TYPE THE RESOURCE GROUP NAME text box, and click Delete