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Gleb Billig
Gleb Billig

Reputation: 167

What are Resource Disks in Microsoft Azure?

What is the definition of a resource disk in Microsoft Azure? I see the term used in the response to my REST call to get the available Virtual Machine sizes. The documentation says that "ResourceDiskSizeInMB" specifies the size in MB of the temporary or resource disk. However I don't see the term resource disk being used anywhere else.

Does this mean that resource disks are the same as temporary disks?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5834

Answers (2)

C Bergeron
C Bergeron

Reputation: 31

The term Resource Disk is used in /etc/waagent.conf. You can specify a mount point along with filesystem type and a few other options.

Upvotes: 3

Jason Ye
Jason Ye

Reputation: 13954

Does this mean that resource disks are the same as temporary disks?

You are right, when we list all available virtual machine sizes for a subscription in a location, we will get the information about "resourceDiskSizeInMb", it is Local SSD(temporary disk), we can find it in this page.

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{
    "maxDataDiskCount": 2,
    "memoryInMb": 3584,
    "name": "Standard_D1_v2",
    "numberOfCores": 1,
    "osDiskSizeInMb": 1047552,
    "resourceDiskSizeInMb": 51200
  },

Upvotes: 4

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