Steps to make the required partition changes are listed below per distribution and have been tested in the specific releases listed: For Red Hat 7.3 / CentOS 7.3 and Oracle 7.3: We just tried to use horizontal table partioning on Azure SQL Server Premium Tier and we can see the data being populated in different partitions. Resize Azure VM OS Partition This small script will help you to expand/Resize your Azure VM Operation System Partition.First, you can try to run the below command on your Powershell and check whether you can connect to your Microsoft Azure account in resource management (ARM) mode. Below are both of the steps needed to increase the disk size in Azure as well as resizing the partition within windows itself. However the explain plans do not reflect the optimizer actually using the partitioning and we also do not see any performance difference between a partioned and unpartioned table. This wiki page explains how to configure swap partitions on Ubuntu instances in Windows Azure. The First step is to install the Azure Powershell Module. With non-managed disks, even though you create a 128GB disk like several Azure gallery images do, you are just charged for the bytes you use (i.e. GPT disks are supported as data disks. Disk Setup. Managed disks offer several benefits but are priced differently than their non-managed counterpart. Adding disks to Nerdio for Azure virtual machines is common and can be done through the NAP's server module. Azure managed disks are the new, recommended disk storage offering for use with Azure Virtual Machines for persistent data storage. Removing a disk will require some steps in the Azure Portal and we have those instructions here in the following steps: Choose from four types of managed disks – Ultra Disk Storage, Premium SSD, Standard SSD and Standard HDD – and use multiple managed disks with each VM. To do that, I create a second file. The process is the same: select a disk, create a primary partition, select the partition, format it as NTFS using quick format, assign a label, and finally assign a drive letter. pages with data). - A machine without a boot disk … Multiple boot disks on a VM aren't supported - /boot on an LVM volume across more than one disk isn't supported. Luckily the Azure Powershell Module has a really nice cmdlet to take care of this and make this extremely easy. Install-Module -Name Az –AllowClobber. If you are looking to create a swap file, see the example in the cloud-init documentation. To partition the disk appropriately, you will need to use the disk_setup configuration stanza. After the disk is initialized, I have to format it. This is an Azure architecture limitation. - Boot disks mustn't be in GPT partition format. After the script is done, I have two files for each VM. For managed disks, you can use the Azure Portal to create a snapshot of the disk.