Azure Classroom notes 10/Jan/2024

Azure Storage contd

Disk Performance Parameters

• Speed
  • IOPS (IOPS):
    • number of input/output operations done per second
  • Throughput
    • Amount of data transferred per second
• Size
• Hardware type:
  • HDD
  • SSD

Block Storage (Disk Storage)

• In Azure When we create a virtual machine, vm size determines
  • number of data disks
  • max iops
  • local/temp storage size
• Any vm size with s in it supports premium disks
• Azure allows us to create disks in two ways
  • unmanaged disks:
    • This is page blob in storage account
  • managed disks
    • This is managed disks by azure.
• Azure recommends using managed disks
• Managed Disk Catgories
  • Standard:
    • Hardware types:
      • HDD
      • SSD
    • skus
      • Standard HDD
      • Standard SSD
  • Premium
    • Hardware Type:
      • SSD
    • skus
      • Premium SSD
      • Premium SSD v2