GAB 2016 Cloud Storage

Azure Cloud Storage

1. Azure Cloud Storage -IaaS
Carlos Mayol ([email protected])
Premier Field Engineer -Microsoft

2. Carlos Mayol (MSFT since 2010, on IT since 1997)
•Actively working on Clustering ,Virtualization and Azure Infrastructure
Services at Microsoft
•Content contributor for Microsoft Press books, TechNet articles and
Webcast
•Speaker on System center and Azure User Groups
Premier FieldEngineer focused on Proactive Services and Trainings for Microsoft products and solutions

3. •Azure Infrastructure as a Service
•Azure Data & Storage
•Blobs, Queues, Tables, Files
Part 1 Tech slides
Part 2 Demos
Part 3 FAQ / Q&A
Download it here:
http://www.slideshare.net/CarlosMayol4

4. IaaS –Video

5. What is Azure Storage
Provision

6. Microsoft AzureStorage
Provision

7. Microsoft AzureStorage

8. Azure Storage Architecture –@10k feet
Front-End (FE) layer–This layer takes
the incoming requests, authenticates
and authorizes the requests, and then
routes them to a partition server in the
Partition Layer
Partition Layer–This layer manages the
partitioning of all of the data objects in
the system, routes request to the
correct server and load-balances
partitions
Distributed and replicated File System
(DFS) Layer–This is the layer that
actually stores the bits on disk and is in
charge of distributing and replicating
the data across many servers to keep it
durable

9. Azure Storage Services

10. Azure Storage Services
•Blob Storage stores file data
•Table Storagestores structured
datasets
•Queue Storageprovides reliable
messaging
•File Storageoffers shared storage for
legacy applications

11. Azure Storage Services
Azure Storage Service Encryption for Data at Rest (Preview)
Azure Storage automatically encrypts your data prior to persisting to storage and decrypts prior to
retrieval. The encryption, decryption and key management is totally transparent to users
The Keys are managed by Microsoft for now
All data is encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption
Available on Ibiza portal for only ARM storage accounts (for now)
Scenarios:
Encryption of block blobs, append blobs, and page blobs
Encryption of archived VHDs and templates brought to Azure from on-premises.
Encryption of underlying OS and data disks for IaaS VMs created using your VHDs

12. Azure Storage Redundancy Options

13. Windows Azure Storage
Persistent Storage with Microsoft Azure

14. Windows Azure
Storage
Storing Data on Microsoft Azure

15. continuous storage
geo-replication
WEST
DC
EAST
DC
> 400 miles
Windows Azure
Storage
Geo-Replicated Storage
Increased Availability with Replication

16. Accessing Blob Storage

17. Storage considerations Data Disks
Azure VM disk provides up to 1 TB and provides:
500 IOPS(8K) throughput (Standard)
300 IOPS (8K) throughput(Basic)
Storage account is limited to 20,000 IOPS
That means an average of 40 VHDs
Use storage spaces to combine disks and achieve
more then 500 IOPS or 1 TB (up to 16 disks)
•Configure the Storage Space to use all attached data disks
•Set the Storage Space interleave at least as large as the I/Osof your
workload
•Use PowerShell to configure 1 columns per each disk
•Cluster size matters, use 64 KB for SQL server

18. Premium Storage considerations
•SSD based storage that
enhance the
performance of IO
intensive enterprise
workloads
•Locally Redundant
Storage enabled –
Keeps three replicas of
data within the data
center
•3 Size types (P10, P20,
P30)

19. Sharing Files
•Old school method: set
one VM to share files
across your VMs
•Caveats: redundancy and write your
own code to locate the share
•Azure Files
•Shared file share
•Managed (scalability, durability and
availability)
•SMB (3.0) and REST are supported
•Max File Size 1TB
•Max Files per Share 5TB

20. Storage limits