Wednesday, 1 April 2020
Today marks the general availability of new Azure disk sizes, including 4, 8, and 16 GiB on both Premium & Standard SSDs, as well as bursting support on Azure Premium SSD Disks.
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Azure Site Recovery now supports disaster recovery of VMware virtual machines and physical machines by directly replicating to managed disks. You will have the choice to select the type of managed disk. Provides hassle free management of capacity in Azure.
Monday, 11 March 2019
Azure Data Box offline family lets you transfer hundreds of terabytes of data to Microsoft Azure in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable manner. Today, we are excited to share that support for managed disks with the Azure Data Box family of devices is now available and includes support for Data Box, Data Box Disk, and Data Box Heavy.
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Azure Backup now offers an improved restore experience for Azure Virtual Machines by leveraging the power of ARM templates and managed disks. The new restore experience directly creates Managed Disk(s) and virtual machine (VM) templates.
Thursday, 2 August 2018
We are excited to announce the capability of converting VMs with unmanaged Disks to Managed Disks in the Azure Portal! Now you can migrate to Managed Disks in single click without requiring PowerShell or CLI scripts.
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Today, we are excited to announce the availability of the OS Disk Swap capability for VMs using Managed Disks. Until now, this capability was only available for Unmanaged Disks. With this capability, it becomes very easy to restore a previous backup of the OS Disk or swap out the OS Disk for VM troubleshooting without having to delete the VM.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017
Today, we are excited to announce Azure Storage Service Encryption (SSE) with keys managed by Microsoft for Managed Disks.
Monday, 20 February 2017
Enable backup of VMs with Managed Disks using Azure Backup