You have an SAP on Azure production landscape that is hosted on Standard M-series virtual machines. You plan to expand the storage on the virtual machines. Which type of disk can be expanded without…

Question

Options

• AUltra
• BStandard SSD
• CPremium SSD v2
• DPremium SSD v1

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  94% (32)
• C
  3% (1)

Explanation

Standard SSD is correct because it is the only disk type among the options that is both compatible with Standard M-series VMs and supports online (live) disk expansion - you can resize the disk while the VM remains running with no service interruption.

Ultra Disk (A) is wrong because Ultra Disks require explicit Ultra Disk compatibility to be enabled at VM deployment time; Standard M-series VMs do not support this feature in their default configuration, so Ultra Disk is not an available option here.

Premium SSD v2 (C) is wrong because Premium SSD v2 has strict VM-size and availability zone requirements that exclude the Standard M-series family - it simply cannot be attached to these VMs.

Premium SSD v1 (D) is wrong because resizing a Premium SSD v1 disk requires the VM to be stopped and deallocated first, which is exactly the downtime the question asks you to avoid.

Memory tip: Think of it as "Standard = Safe for live expansion on Standard VMs." The word Standard appears in both the VM series and the correct disk type - the Premium variants either aren't supported on this VM family (v2) or demand downtime to resize (v1), and Ultra requires special opt-in that Standard M-series lacks.

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