Azure Storage Accounts

• Storage Account contains all the storage objects
  • blobs
  • files (network storage)
  • queues
  • tables
  • disks
• The Storage account data is accessible from any where over http or https (can be restricted)

Creating a Storage Account:

• Create a resource group and then create a storage account refer here

• Storage account names should be

  • uniques with in Azure
  • between 3 and 24 characters in length (dns compliant names)

• By default when we create storage account we create General Purposev2

• Azure

  • Blob (Binary large Object)
    • Page Blob => Disks
    • Block Blob => files
    • Append Blob => Log files

• Types of Storage Accounts:

  • General Purpose V1
  • General Purpose V2
  • Block Blob Storage Accounts
  • File Storage Accounts
  • Blob Storage Accounts

• Performance Tiers:

  • Standard
  • Premium

• Redundancy:

  • Locally Redundant Storage (LRS):
    • Original data is copied in three different servers in primary region
  • Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS)
    • Data is copied into 3 different zones synchronously
  • Geo-redundant Storage (GRS)
    • Data is copied in three different servers in primary region and then data is copied into secondary region.
  • Read Access Geo Redundant Storage (RA-GRS)
    • Data is copied in three different servers in primary region and then data is copied into secondary region for Read only access.

Creating an Azure VM with Disk from Storage Account

• While creating vm in the Disks section, Navigate to Advanced and change the use managed disks option from yes to no
• Try using already created storage account for vm disk and observe the changes in the storage account in the containers sections.