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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)

Testing ASR

Before getting started with testing the failover, it is recommended to create a virtual network on which the failover VM will be located.

To test the failover, you have to follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Recovery Services vault, then go to Replicated items, select the VM you want to test the failover for, and then click on Test Failover.
  2. You will be navigated to a new blade, where you have to specify which virtual network the VM will be located in.
  1. Once you have clicked on OK, the failover process will start performing the following tasks:
    1. Prerequisites check for test failover.
    2. Creating a test environment.
    3. Creating a test virtual machine.
    4. Preparing the virtual machine.
    5. Starting the virtual machine.
    6. Complete testing: this task will require user interaction by clicking on Complete testing.
    7. Cleaning up the test virtual machine.
    8. Cleaning up the test environment...