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Agenda Azure Cloud EcoSystem VM Disks Azure SQL DB & Elastic Pools Other Data Storage Options
Cloud Services Models
Azure EcoSystem demo
Express Route
Express Route
Express Route Ingress traffic Egress traffic Cross region traffic Throughput https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/expressroute-locations
SQL PaaS offerings
Azure SQL DB PaaS offering No concerns on VHDs, managed disk, throughput, etc. Performance measure in DTUs Requires authentication review Partial compatibility with on-prem SQL No inter-database dependencies No file management
Azure SQL DB Elastic Pools Share DTUs among multiple databases Great for saving on costs Does not change functionality Slow when multiple DBs demand peak workload
Azure SQL DB and Elastic DB demo
Virtual Machines and VHDs Lift and Shift approach Never performs like on premises! Requires files and filegroups strategy Optimized Virtual Machines General Purpose Compute Memory Storage GPU High Performance
VM Disks Traditional Approach Current Approach VHD in blob container 60 MB/s limit per blob Blob container limits Current Approach Managed Disks 200 MB/s limit per disk
Backup and Restore Redundancy is native Backup to other disks Backup to Blob Storage
Virtual Machines and Backups demo
File-Snapshot Backup
Azure Data Warehouse and NoSQL options
No SQL Options demo
Questions
Why are you still taking backups? Links (cont.): File-snapshot backup https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt169363.aspx https://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/windows-azure/file-snapshot-backups-demo https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn385720.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn466438.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dn466438.aspx Data platform blog https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/ Armando lacerda @arlacerda | linkedin | facebook me@armandolacerda.com