What are the cases where Azure Disk Encryption is not suported?
Experience Level: Senior
Tags: Azure CloudAzure Virtual Machines
Answer
Azure Disk Encryption is also not available on Basic, A-series VMs, or on virtual machines that do not meet these minimum memory requirements:
| Virtual machine | Minimum memory requirement |
|---|---|
| Linux VMs when only encrypting data volumes | 2 GB |
| Linux VMs when encrypting both data and OS volumes, and where the root (/) file system usage is 4GB or less | 8 GB |
| Linux VMs when encrypting both data and OS volumes, and where the root (/) file system usage is greater than 4GB | The root file system usage * 2. For instance, a 16 GB of root file system usage requires at least 32GB of RAM |
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