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Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

By : Mohamed Waly
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Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

By: Mohamed Waly

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure Storage is the bedrock of Microsoft's core storage solution offering in Azure. No matter what solution you are building for the cloud, you'll find a compelling use for Azure Storage. This book will help you get up-to-speed quickly on Microsoft Azure Storage by teaching you how to use the different storage services. You will be able to leverage secure design patterns based on real-world scenarios and develop a strong storage foundation for Azure virtual machines. You will start this book with an introduction to Microsoft Azure storage and how it can be used to build large-scale, real-world applications using Azure storage services such as blob, table, queue, and file. This book will also teach you about the different types of Azure Storage. You will then find out the best practices for designing your Azure VM storage, whether it is Windows based or Linux based and how to migrate your storage in different scenarios. You will learn also how to plan and implement your SQL database solution on Azure, and how to build your SQL database in different service models (IaaS/PaaS). Moreover, you will also learn best practices for dealing with Azure Backup, the role of Azure Site Recovery, and the solutions they offer in different scenarios. Finally, you will use StorSimple to unlock the maximum value from all of your data, and some tools that will help you manage your storage on-and off-premise (Azure), such as AzCopy and Storage Explorer. Monitoring your storage in no laughing matter, so you will learn to monitor, diagnose and troubleshoot it.

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Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
1
Understanding Azure Storage 101
Understanding Azure Storage 101
An introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage
Why Azure Storage?
Terminologies
ASM versus ARM model
Azure Storage types
Azure Storage accounts
Automating your tasks
Summary
2
Delving into Azure Storage
Delving into Azure Storage
Azure Storage services
Understanding the Azure Storage architecture
Securing Azure Storage
Storage design for highly available applications
Understanding client libraries
Automating tasks
Summary
3
Azure Storage for VMs
Azure Storage for VMs
An introduction to Azure VMs
Creating an Azure VM
Storage considerations for Azure VMs
Capturing VMs
Automating the tasks
Further information
Summary
4
Implementing Azure SQL Databases
Implementing Azure SQL Databases
An introduction to Azure SQL Database
Why Azure SQL Database?
Service tiers
Creating an Azure SQL Database
Connecting to Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database business continuity
Automating the tasks
Summary
5
Beyond Azure SQL Database Management
Beyond Azure SQL Database Management
SQL Database (IaaS/PaaS)
Azure SQL elastic database pools
Setting Azure AD authentication to Azure SQL Database
Active geo-replication
Automating the tasks
Further information
Summary
6
Azure Backup
Azure Backup
An introduction to Azure Backup
Why Azure Backup?
The process of backing up data
Further information
Automating tasks
Summary
7
Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery
Introduction to ASR
ASR supportability
Preparing your environment for ASR
Kicking off replication from on-premises to ASR
ASR recovery plans
Testing ASR
Further information
Summary
8
Extending Your Azure Storage Management
Extending Your Azure Storage Management
Azure StorSimple
AzCopy
Azure Storage Explorer
Azure Storage's three musketeers
Summary

Setting Azure AD authentication to Azure SQL Database

So far, we have been using SQL authentication to connect to Azure SQL Database, as we did in the previous chapter via SQL Server Management Studio.

Using Azure AD will provide centralized administration for database users' identities.

Doing so is very straightforward; you can follow the following steps to do so:

  1. Navigate to the Azure SQL Server and scroll down to Active Directory admin, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 5.10: Azure AD admins for the Azure SQL Server
  1. Click on Set admin and a new blade will pop up, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 5.11: Azure AD users and groups
  1. Select the desired user or group to be added as an AD admin on the SQL Server, then save your changes to be applied to the SQL Server, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 5.12: Saving changes to the SQL Server...
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