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Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Markus Klein, Sebastian Hoppe, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
Book Image

Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Markus Klein, Sebastian Hoppe, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Azure offers numerous solutions that can shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face lies in implementing these solutions. </p><p>Implementing Azure Solutions helps you overcome this challenge by enabling you to implement Azure Solutions effectively. The book begins by guiding you in choosing the backend structure for your solutions. You will then work with the Azure toolkit and learn how to use Azure Managed Apps to share your solutions with the Azure service catalog. The book then focuses on various implementation techniques and best practices such as implementing Azure Cloud Services by configuring, deploying, and managing cloud services. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn how to work with Azure-managed Kubernetes and Azure Container Services. </p><p>By the end of the book, you will be able to build robust cloud solutions on Azure.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Premium storage accounts

When it comes to performance, you can decide between standard or a premium storage account. For most workloads, standard accounts are more than suitable, but in some cases, more I/O-intensive applications need very fast storage. For this use case, the premium storage account was introduced. Premium storage is fully backed by SSD tiers and provides high-performance and 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 input/output operations per second (IOPS) and 2,000 MBps disk throughput.

Microsoft examples of enterprise applications that may need premium storage are—Dynamics AX...