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Agenda Azure Cloud EcoSystem VM Disks Azure SQL DB & Elastic Pools Other Data Storage Options

Cloud Services Models

Express Route

Express Route

Express Route

Express Route

Azure EcoSystem 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 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

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