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Not Able to create a vm with unmanaged disk

Akshay tondak 276 Reputation points
2022-03-22T08:18:56.057+00:00

While creating a VM with the unmanaged disk, On the Disks page, under Advanced-Data Disks I'm not able to uncheck the Use managed disks check box. Not able to select a storage account for the unmanaged OS disk.

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  1. Andreas Baumgarten 123.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-03-22T08:25:50.567+00:00

    Hi @Akshay tondak ,

    the answer, why you can't use an unmanaged disk is because the Gallery Package (in my opinion the VM template) requires a managed OS disk.

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    Andreas Baumgarten

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  2. Peter Schwarcz 11 Reputation points
    2023-02-22T18:45:51.6766667+00:00

    Hello , @Akshay tondak ,

    You can use Gen1 Ubuntu OS and you can uncheck the 'use managed disk'.

    Regards,

    Peter Schwarcz.

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