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Implementing Azure Solutions

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
Book Image

Implementing Azure Solutions

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately. Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure’s solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented. To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment. By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Premium Storage account


In Figure 5.3 at the beginning of this chapter, there is a performance property at Storage account creation. This property decides whether a standard or a premium Storage account is created. For most workloads, standard accounts are more than suitable but in some cases, more I/O intensive applications need very fast storage. For this case, the premium Storage account was introduced. Premium storage is fully backed by SSD tiers and provides high performance, low latency storage.

Premium storage can currently only be used for virtual disks used in VMs (page blobs). The performance property can't be changed after Storage account creation, but it's possible to migrate VMs from the standard to premium storage tier.

Depending on the machine size, it's possible to attach up to 64 disks to a VM (Standard_GS5). A Standard_GS5-sized machine supports up to 80,000 uncached IOPS and 2000 MB/s disk throughput.

Microsoft examples for enterprise applications that may need premium storage...