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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.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Why Azure Backup?

Azure Backup delivers many key benefits to many environments that use it as a backup solution. Here are some of them:

  • Highly available and scalable solution: When using Azure Backup, you do not have to care about the underlying infrastructure on which the backup will be stored, or the maintenance of that infrastructure. Also, whenever you need to back up and keep your data on Azure, you do not have to care about the size of the backed up data, because no matter what the size is, Azure will handle it.
  • Self-service: Azure Backup will allocate your backed up data automatically without the need to assign it to a specific storage device.
  • High level of application consistency: Azure Backup supports backing up Hyper-V, VMware VMs, SQL Servers, file servers, and so on. Whenever you restore any of these applications, you will not have to do any troubleshooting or fixing...