Azure Classroom Series – 03/Sept/2020

Soft delete for Azure Storage blobs

• Default delete behavior is after deleting blob, the blob will be lost for ever.
• Soft delete is a feature that allows you to save and recover data when blobs are deleted or even overwritten.
• This feature needs to be enabled on storage account and retention period has to be set (for how long the deleted data is available)
• Maximum retention period for deleted data is 365 days.

Creating an export from Azure job

• Refer Here

Using Azure Data Box

• Azure Data box is a service that provides a device that Microsoft will send to you that allows you to send terabytes of data from on-premise to azure.

• There are three variations of azure data box

  • Data Box Disk
    • Format: Standalone SSD
    • Capacity: Up to 35 TB
    • Support: Blobs
    • Destination Storage Account: 1 only
  • Data Box
    • Format: Rugged Device
    • Capacity: Up to 80 TB
    • Support: Blobs and Files
    • Destination Storage Account: up to 10
  • Data Box Heavy
    • Format: Large Rugged Device
    • Capacity: Up to 800 TB
    • Support: Blobs and Files
    • Destination Storage Account: up to 10

• Refer Here for data box quick start.

Azure StorSimple

• Azure StorSimple is used to provide data storage and backup solution for both cloud & on premises.

Azure StorSimple Virtual Array

• Components:
  • Virtual Array: A hybrid cloud storage device based of virtual machine provisioned in virtualized environment or hypervisor
  • Stor Simple Device Manager Service: This service is used to create, manage services, view and manage devices, Manage volumes, shares and existing snapshots.
  • Local Web user interface: A Web UI i.e. used to configure the device so that it can connect to local network, and the register the device with StorSimple Device Management Service
  • CLI interface