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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)

Azure Storage's three musketeers

Facing issues while working with an application/VM that works on Azure because of Azure Storage would be painful. Therefore, to avoid such a scenario, you should monitor your environment properly, diagnose the issue, and troubleshoot it once it occurs. And there's the three musketeers that will save your day: monitoring, diagnosing, and troubleshooting.

To monitor your storage services, you have to navigate to your storage account and select its metrics to display the monitored metrics, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.36: Display Blob storage service metrics

You can also add alerts, in case a metric exceeded a threshold set by you. To do so, you have to navigate to the storage account that you want to monitor, scroll down to Alert rules, and click on Add alert. A new blade will pop up, where you will need to fill in the...