![]() ![]() They also support the same durability, availability, scalability, and performance features in those account types. ![]() GPv2 accounts support all APIs and features supported in GPv1 and Blob storage accounts. Storage V2 (General Purpose V2) –> these storage accounts support all of the latest features for blobs, files, queues, and tables. Now, under Account Kind we have 3 options to choose. We already discussed about Standard vs Premium storage. Next give your storage account a name and select location. If you don’t have one you can click on Create new. Select you subscription and the resource group. Click on the star to add it in the favorites.) (If you don’t see storage account blade in the left pane, click on All services and type in storage account. Login to Azure Portal and click on the Storage Account Blade in the left pane Let’s see how we can create storage accounts and let’s explore storage account properties. I included a link where you can find all info regarding SLA so please read it. Storage Account SLAĪnother important peace when configuring storage accounts. So application and database workloads really do need that premium storage. And of course, remote desktop session hosts, as we discussed earlier on, many, many users accessing a single operating system with multiple read and writes to a disk are definitely going to need premium storage. They’re just really going to need premium disks. SQL databases outside of dev and test just really won’t work well without performance, without premium disks. So busy file servers with many, many users are not going to work quite well. But standard storage just does not cut it when you’ve got disk-intensive applications. Maybe remote desktop brokers, not very busy. Then you’re getting a great SLA, and they’re going to work quite well or multiple webservers. ![]() ![]() So again, you could have two domain controllers on standard storage in an availability set. Well standard storage is when you’ve got more than one VM doing the same job. WHEN TO USE STANDARD STORAGE AND WHEN PREMIUM ? Premium storage performance tier only supports Azure virtual machine disks. Here we get charged for the disk size and not data written. By contrast, if you’re doing a lot of random IO and you’re hosting, let’s say, IaaS based SQL servers or MySQL database servers, then you may want to look at premium for them. How fast do you need the storage sub-system to be for your IaaS VM workloads? If they’re just doing relatively low horsepower tasks, maybe serving DNS or maybe some light IIS web, you may be fine with standard storage. You have to do some calculus on one hand keeping costs in mind, and in the other hand your need for IOPS, input output operations per second. Storage is based on SSD storage as opposed to hard drive storage we have in standard tier. Premium disk aren’t charged by transaction. Standard storage performance tier allows you to store Tables, Queues, Files, Blobs and Azure virtual machine disks. It is not the disk size what it counts it is the data you have on it (Standard disk cost per transacation and per GB). If you have 1 TB VHD and if you have only 100 MB data on it you will pay only for those 100 MB not for the whole size. Standard storage is what most applications will use and it’s cheaper and a bit slower. There are two tiers of storage: Standard and Premium. Azure storage is designed to support pretty much any workload or any application that you have. So when you write a file before Azure returns and says, success the file is written, it’s been stored in at least three locations. You don’t have to worry about things like the load-balancing, you don’t have to worry about things like redundancy, about making sure that data is written in multiple locations in fact within Azure before a piece of data is considered written, it’s got to be stored in at least three individual locations. You don’t have to think about the underlying implementation of storage all you need to do is define storage and azure takes care of the rest. Azure storage grows as you need it and it grows instantly, you can use this for an extremely small amount of data that access very infrequently and very slowly or to extremely large, extremely demanding high-performance workloads that run on SSD storage and have hundreds of thousands of IOPS. Azure storage evolved from the very first iterations of Azure, when it was simply platform-as-a-service, so you could come-in and run workloads like websites and databases and today you can run much more including infrastructure virtual machines, but when it began it was more for running platform applications, applications such as websites and databases. ![]()
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