Create a Azure VM with unmanaged data disks enabled using powershell

Question

I am trying to create a azure vm using powershell so that it would allow to attach unmanaged data disks in future. I see documentation on creating but those always create with managed disks

Answer 1

Example .

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# Create storage account
$storageAccount = New-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName "MyResourceGroup" -AccountName "MyStorageAccount" -Location $location -SkuName "Standard_LRS"

# Add disk
$OSDiskUri = $storageAccount.PrimaryEndpoints.Blob.ToString() + "vhds/vm-disk.vhd"
$vm = Set-AzVMOSDisk -VM $vm -Name "vm-disk" -VhdUri $OSDiskUri -CreateOption fromImage 

# Create VM
New-AzVM -ResourceGroupName myResourceGroup -Location $location -VM $vm