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Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai
Book Image

Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai

Overview of this book

This Learning Path helps you understand microservices architecture and leverage various services of Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to build, deploy, and maintain highly scalable enterprise-grade applications. You will learn to select an appropriate Azure backend structure for your solutions and work with its toolkit and managed apps to share your solutions with its service catalog. As you progress through the Learning Path, you will study Azure Cloud Services, Azure-managed Kubernetes, and Azure Container Services deployment techniques. To apply all that you’ve understood, you will build an end-to-end Azure system in scalable, decoupled tiers for an industrial bakery with three business domains. Toward the end of this Learning Path, you will build another scalable architecture using Azure Service Bus topics to send orders between decoupled business domains with scalable worker roles processing these orders. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be comfortable in using development, deployment, and maintenance processes to build robust cloud solutions on Azure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learn Microsoft Azure by Mohamed Wali • Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition by Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein • Microservices with Azure by Namit Tanasseri and Rahul Rai
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Premium storage accounts


When it comes to performance, you can decide between standard or a premium storage account. For most workloads, standard accounts are more than suitable, but in some cases, more I/O-intensive applications need very fast storage. For this use case, the premium storage account was introduced. Premium storage is fully backed by SSD tiers and provides high-performance and low-latency storage.

Premium storage can currently only be used for virtual disks used in VMs (page blobs). The performance property can't be changed after storage account creation, but it's possible to migrate VMs from the standard to premium storage tier.

Depending on the machine size, it's possible to attach up to 64 disks to a VM (Standard_GS5). A Standard_GS5-sized machine supports up to 80,000 uncached input/output operations per second (IOPS) and 2,000 MBps disk throughput.

Microsoft examples of enterprise applications that may need premium storage are—Dynamics AX, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server...