Offline Transfers

• Azure Databox family has 3 devices
  • Azure Databox Disk
  • Azure Databox
  • Azure DataBox heavy
• These devices will be sent to onpremises by azure. Copy the data and azure will transport and import into Azure Storage account
  
• This approach is sensible for one time transfers/migrations.

Online recurrent transfers

• If you need to copy certain amount of data every day into azure data centers
• Azure Databox Gateway is a virtual device that can be installed on os and transfers the data into Azure
• Databox pricing Refer Here

Hierarchical Storage (Azure Data lake Storage)

• Refer Here for Azure data lake storage gen2
• Creation
  

Exercises

• Create a storage account
  • Explain difference between Standard and Premium in terms of IOPS
  • Explain Blob types
  • Maximum and minimum file sizes in blob storage
• What are Azure Storage Account limits
• Maximum and Minimum Disk Sizes and IOPS in Azure
  • Standard
  • Premium
  • Ultra
• AzCopy features
  • Copy
  • Synchronize
• Creating Snapshots automatically and manually?