Creating Storage Account

To create Storage Account in Azure Portal

1. Login to Azure Portal via Azure Portal.

2. Click Storage Accounts.

   

3. Click Create.

   

4. In the page, enter the below details:

   • Resource group - Select the resource group or create new by clicking Create new.

   • Storage account name - Fill any name into it

   • Preferred storage type - Azure Blob Storage or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2

   • Performance = Standard

   • Redundancy = Locally-redundant storage(LRS)

   

5. Click Review + Create.

   

6. Click Create.

7. Once you receive deployment complete message, click Go to resource.

   

8. Navigate to Security + networking > Access keys.

9. Click Show for the Key field. Copy the key.

   

10. Proceed to uploading the vhd file. Refer Uploading VHD.