Azure Classroom Series – 25/May/2021

Organization Storage Usage Scenarios

• Lets understand some of the use cases where storage is used in Enterprise.
• Web applications:
  • Consider a simple web application hosting ecommerce website in the Datacenter on the Virtual infrastructure on premise
  • Here w.r.t storage we need to manage
    • Physical Servers
    • Virtual Machines
    • Virtual Disks
    • Network Disk
    • Backup and restore process for the above
    • Ongoing requests which might lead to new hardware procurement.
      • increase in disk sizes
      • increase in allocation on network disk to store images

Azure Core Storage Services

• Once we start using cloud, no more physical infrastructure responsibilities to us as Azure maintains physical layer
• The Azure storage offers the following storage services
  • Azure Blobs:
    • A massive scalable object store for text and binary data (file)
    • Support for big data analytics through Data Lake Storage
  • Azure Files: Managed file shares for cloud and on-premises deployments (SAN/NAS)
  • Azure Queues: A messaging store for reliable messaging b/w application components
  • Azure Tables: A NoSQL store for schema less storage
  • Azure Disks: Block-level storage volumes for Azure VMs
• Using Azure Services for the web application discussed above
• Azure offers SLAs (Service Level Agreements) for storage Refer Here

Blob Storage

• This is ideal for
  • Serving images or documents directly to browser
  • Stream video and audio
  • Storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving
  • Storing data for analysis
• Azure Blob storage is Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud.
• Here there is no limit for the number of files you upload.
• Restriction is individual file we are trying to upload should not have size greater than 4.7 TB

Azure Account Creation

• Creating Azure Account Refer Here