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Learn Azure Administration - Second Edition

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
5 (1)
Book Image

Learn Azure Administration - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Complete with the latest advancements in Azure services, this second edition of Learn Azure Administration is a comprehensive guide to scaling your cloud administration skills, offering an updated exploration of Azure fundamentals and delving into the intricacies of Azure Resource Manager and Azure Active Directory. Starting with infrastructure as code (IaC) basics, this book guides you through the seamless migration to Azure Bicep and ARM templates. From Azure virtual networks planning to deployment, you’ll get to grips with the complexities of Azure Load Balancer, virtual machines, and configuring essential virtual machine extensions. You'll handle the identity and security for users with the Microsoft Entra ID and centralize access using policies and defined roles. Further chapters strengthen your grasp of Azure Storage security, supplemented by an overview of tools such as Network Watcher. By the end of the book, you’ll have a holistic grasp of Azure administration principles to tackle contemporary challenges and expand your proficiency to administer your Azure-based cloud environment using various tools like Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and infrastructure as code.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1:Introduction to Azure for Azure Administrators
4
Part 2: Networking for Azure Administrator
7
Part 3: Administration of Azure Virtual Machines
12
Part 4: Azure Storage for Administrators
16
Part 5: Governance and Monitoring

Expanding on OS and data disks

You should be already familiar with two types of disks that can be provisioned in Azure (we discussed them in Chapter 5):

  • OS disk
  • Data disk

In Azure, each virtual machine can have a single OS disk attached to it, plus several data disks, which are used as additional storage units for a machine. The number of possible data disks attached to the machine relies on its family and size:

  • Memory-optimized Dv2 and Dsv2-series – 8–64 data disks
  • Ev4 and Esv4-series – 4–32 data disks
  • Mv2-series – 64 data disks
  • B-series burstable series – 2–32 data disks

You can find the full list in the Azure documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes. When planning your infrastructure (and considering its capabilities and capacity), this should be the first place where you consult your assumptions. Azure Virtual Machines, with their families and sizes...