Azure Classroomnotes 21/Apr/2023

Azure Storage Account Contd..

• Azure Blob has 3 kinds of blobs
  • page blob (vhds)
  • block blob (any file)
  • append blob (log files)
• Azure VMs have diagnostics which are stored in Azure Storage Account
  
• Life Cycle Management allows changing access tiers from based on factors
  • hot to cold
  • cold to archive
    
    
    
    
    

Scenarios For Data Migration

• Data Migration
  
• For every scenario, Azure will give recommendations of various tools, make a note of them
• Scenario 1: My organization wants to move 100 TB of Data from onpremises into blob storage. The internet speed is 1 GBPS and this activity is done only once
  
  
  
• Scenario 2: My organization wants to move 1 TB of Data from onpremises into blob storage. The internet speed is 1 GBPS and this activity is done daily
  
  
  
• Scenario 3: My organizations want to move 50 TB of Data from other cloud provider into Azure blob storage
  

Data Transfer options

• Online:
  • Utilities:
    • AzCopy
  • Azure Storage Explorer
  • Databox:
    • Edge
    • Gateway
  • Azure file sync
• Offline (one time transfers)
  • Data Box
  • Data Box Disk
• Azure Data Factory (BigData/Data Engineering)