On-Premises Analytics Azure Deployment Guide

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Adding External Disk

To add external disk

  1. Navigate to System > Settings. On successfully preparing the system to support external disk, the Settings page will display a message to add external disk.

  2. Navigate to System > Shutdown. Click Shutdown. On prompting for confirmation, click OK.

  3. Bring up the Azure Portal, navigate to Disks > Settings.

  4. Click Create and attach a new disk.

  5. Enter the Disk name, Storage type, Size of the new data disk. Refer to IPFIX Based Licensing Model on recommendations in size.

  6. Click Save.

  7. Add and mount the storage. Follow steps 1 to 6 under Configuring On-Premises Analytics on Azure.

  8. Login to the Analytics UI using the IPV4 address, username and password.

  9. Navigate to System > Status. Verify that the added storage is displayed in Available Disk Space on Data Partition.