Chris Seferlis walks us through an easy method to convert unmanaged disks to managed disks in Azure:
First off, why would you want a managed disk over an unmanaged one?
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Greater scalability due to much higher IOPs and storage limits. There’s no longer the need to add additional storage accounts when you’re adding disk space, which has been a challenge for users that were using large virtual machines and required large storage space.
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Better availability and reliability which ensures that disks are now isolated from each other in different storage scale units.
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Managed disks offer an over 99.99% uptime, plus are always stored with 3 replicas of the data.
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More granular access control by employing role-based access control (RBAC) security. You have granular capability to assign access to various people in your organization.
Keep reading to learn how to switch.