About Azure Block Storage
Block Storage provides fixed size raw storage capacity where each storage volume can be treated as an independent disk. Block Storage is only accessible from an OS, such as SoftNAS' Linux -based application. It is typically formatted with FAT32, NTFS, EXT3, and EXT4. It is the most common storage type used with databases that require high performance and low-latency, and for mission-critical applications.
Azure managed disks are block-level storage volumes that are managed by Azure and used with Azure Virtual Machines. Managed disks are like a physical disk in an on-premises server but virtualized. With managed disks, all you have to do is specify the disk size, the disk type, and provision the disk. Once you provision the disk, Azure handles the rest.
Azure offers various VM sizes, with pricing based on the amount of block storage disks it makes available. When adding block storage through the SoftNAS UI, your instance will be subject to the limits of your selected instance Size.
User Account Name
Provide the Administrative or Service Admin Azure account used to create your instance or storage accounts in the portal.
Account Password
Provide the password for your Azure Admin or Service Admin Account.
Retype Password
Retype the Azure Admin or Service Admin account password to confirm.
Azure Government Cloud Checkbox
Check this box if this virtual machine was created on the Azure Government Cloud portal, and will use Azure Government Cloud Credentials and associated storage accounts. This ensures the credentials are sent to and verified by the correct portal.
Maximum Disk Size
Select the size of the disk you wish to create, up to the maximum.
Number of Disks
Using managed disks, you can create up to 50,000 VM disks of a type in a subscription per region, allowing you to create thousands of VMs in a single subscription. This feature also further increases the scalability of virtual machine scale sets by allowing you to create up to 1,000 VMs in a virtual machine scale set using a Marketplace image.
