Dell EMC PowerProtect DDVE in the Azure Cloud 7.8 Installation and Administration Guide

Adding managed disks in Azure

Use these procedures to add managed disks to DDVE in Azure.

1. Allocate and attach managed disks to DDVE:
   1. Log in to the Azure portal.
   2. Search the name of the DDVE virtual machine.
   3. In the right pane under SETTINGS, select Disks.
   4. Click Add data disk.
   5. Select Create disk from the menu.
   6. In the pop-up window, enter values for the following:
      • Disk name: A name for the disk
      • Resource group: Specifies the resource group for the disk. Dell EMC recommends that you select the same resource group as the DDVE.
      • Source Type: Select None.
      • Size: Click Change Size to select a storage type of Standard HDD or Premium SSD and size of 1024 GiB or 2048 GiB.
      • Host Caching: Select None. Host caching is not supported in DDVE.
2. Click Create.
3. Click Save (disk icon in the upper left corner of the page) to add the data disks.
4. Repeat the steps above to add more metadata disks.
5. Display new disks with the disk show hardware command.
6. If the file system is already enabled, add the new disks with the storage add tier active <disk> command, and expand the file system with filesys expand command.