Azure Stack ASDK data disks - when "you need 4 disks" isn't enough information
Azure Stack ASDK is a cloud-like environment that lets you experiment with Microsoft Azure services at home or in a non-cloud data center. The ASDK runs in a completely self contained environment that is delivered as a bootable VHD. That VHD runs the Azure Stack ASDK as a cloud environment running in Hyper-V running on top of the Azure Stack booted VHD. Azure Stack program and server deployments and provisioning are typically managed from the Azure portal or via PowerShell. Data Disks The AzureStack ASDK documentation doesn't make it obvious how data disks are used or how they should be sized. It just says that you need 4 blank disks over a certain size without any other guidance. I had 4 250GB SSDs above the minimum. That didn't seem to work while a combination of large spinning disks and smaller SSDs worked on the first attempt. ASDK pulls the data disks into a storage cluster. The storage cluster can combine disks of ...