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Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds: RAW

By : Marcel van den Berg
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Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds: RAW

By: Marcel van den Berg

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Summary and a Look into the Near Future
Index

Microsoft Azure Storage


In this section, we will have a look at storage of Microsoft Azure. The storage service is named Microsoft Azure Storage.

Azure Storage is built using just a bunch of disks (JBOD) arrays with disk controllers running in software. You could see this as software-defined storage. Azure storage can be accessed directly using a URL. So, even when no virtual machines are used by a customer, storage can still be accessed. This kind of publishing data can be compared to, for example, CIFS shares on certain enterprise storage arrays. The storage arrays can directly present file shares to Windows servers or Windows desktops; there is no need to have a Windows server in-between the client and storage layer.

Azure Storage is very scalable. There is no limit to the amount of storage that can be used. There is a limit on performance in the storage account however.

When we look at the lowest level of storage, there are two ways to deliver raw storage capacity:

  • By using local storage...