Deploy a nonzonal Premium SSD v2

To find the regions and zones that support Premium SSD v2 disks, replace yourSubscriptionId with your subscription, and then run the az vm list-skus command:

az login

subscriptionId="<yourSubscriptionId>"

az account set --subscription $subscriptionId

az vm list-skus --resource-type disks --query "[?name=='PremiumV2_LRS'].{Region:locationInfo[0].location, Zones:locationInfo[0].zones}"

To find the regions and zones that support Premium SSD v2 disks, replace yourSubscriptionId with your subscription, and then run the Get-AzComputeResourceSku command:

Connect-AzAccount

$subscriptionId="yourSubscriptionId"

Set-AzContext -Subscription $subscriptionId

Get-AzComputeResourceSku | where {$_.ResourceType -eq 'disks' -and $_.Name -eq 'Premiumv2_LRS'}

To programmatically determine the regions and zones you can deploy to, use either the Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell module.

Create a nonzonal Premium SSD v2 by using the az disk create command. Then create a nonzonal VM in the same region that supports Premium Storage and attach the disk to it by using the az vm create command.

The following script creates a Premium SSD v2 with a 4k sector size. To create a disk with a 512 sector size, update the $logicalSectorSize parameter. Replace the values of all the variables with your own, and then run the following script:

## Initialize variables
diskName="yourDiskName"
resourceGroupName="yourResourceGroupName"
region="yourRegionName"
##Replace 4096 with 512 to deploy a disk with 512 sector size
logicalSectorSize=4096
vmName="yourVMName"
vmImage="Win2016Datacenter"
adminPassword="yourAdminPassword"
adminUserName="yourAdminUserName"
vmSize="Standard_D4s_v3"

## Create a Premium SSD v2
az disk create -n $diskName -g $resourceGroupName \
--size-gb 100 \
--disk-iops-read-write 5000 \
--disk-mbps-read-write 150 \
--location $region \
--sku PremiumV2_LRS \
--logical-sector-size $logicalSectorSize

## Create the VM
az vm create -n $vmName -g $resourceGroupName \
--image $vmImage \
--authentication-type password --admin-password $adminPassword --admin-username $adminUserName \
--size $vmSize \
--location $region \
--attach-data-disks $diskName

Create a nonzonal Premium SSD v2 by using New-AzDiskConfig and New-AzDisk. Then create a nonzonal VM in the same region, add the disk to the VM configuration with Add-AzVMDataDisk, and apply the updated configuration in Azure with Update-AzVM.

The following script creates a Premium SSD v2 with a 4k sector size. To create a disk with a 512 sector size, update the $logicalSectorSize parameter. Replace the values of all the variables with your own, and then run the following script:

# Initialize variables
$resourceGroupName = "yourResourceGroupName"
$region = "useast"
$diskName = "yourDiskName"
$diskSizeInGiB = 100
$diskIOPS = 5000
$diskThroughputInMBPS = 150
#To use a 512 sector size, replace 4096 with 512
$logicalSectorSize=4096
$lun = 1
$vmName = "yourVMName"
$vmImage = "Win2016Datacenter"
$vmSize = "Standard_D4s_v3"
$vmAdminUser = "yourAdminUserName"
$vmAdminPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "yourAdminUserPassword" -AsPlainText -Force
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($vmAdminUser, $vmAdminPassword);

# Create a Premium SSD v2
$diskconfig = New-AzDiskConfig `
-Location $region `
-DiskSizeGB $diskSizeInGiB `
-DiskIOPSReadWrite $diskIOPS `
-DiskMBpsReadWrite $diskThroughputInMBPS `
-AccountType PremiumV2_LRS `
-LogicalSectorSize $logicalSectorSize `
-CreateOption Empty

New-AzDisk `
-ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName `
-DiskName $diskName `
-Disk $diskconfig

# Create the VM
New-AzVm `
 -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName `
 -Name $vmName `
 -Location $region `
 -Image $vmImage `
 -Size $vmSize `
 -Credential $credential

# Attach the disk to the VM
$vm = Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $vmName
$disk = Get-AzDisk -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $diskName
$vm = Add-AzVMDataDisk -VM $vm -Name $diskName -CreateOption Attach -ManagedDiskId $disk.Id -Lun $lun
Update-AzVM -VM $vm -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.
2. Go to Disks and create a new disk.
3. Select a supported region.
4. Select Change size and change the disk type to Premium SSD v2.
5. If you want, change the size of the disk and the performance, and then select OK.
6. Set Availability zone to No infrastructure redundancy required.
7. Proceed through the rest of the deployment, making any choices that you want.
8. On the Advanced tab, select whether you want to deploy a 4k or 512 logical sector size, and then deploy the disk.

When the disk is successfully deployed, attach it to a new or existing VM.