1. Microsoft Azure for SQL Server Professionals
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2. Agenda Azure Cloud EcoSystem VM Disks Azure SQL DB & Elastic Pools
Other Data Storage Options

5. Cloud Services Models

6. Express Route

7. Express Route

8. Express Route

9. Express Route

10. Azure EcoSystem
demo

11. Virtual Machines and VHDs
Lift and Shift approach Never performs like on premises! Requires files and filegroups strategy

12. 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

13. Backup and Restore
Redundancy is native Backup to other disks Backup to Blob Storage

14. Virtual Machines and Backups
demo

15. File-Snapshot Backup

16. On premises datafiles placement

17. File-Snapshot Backup Azure Blob Storage .mdf 5GB .ndf 100 GB
Azure VM SQL Instance
.ndf 200 GB
.ndf 200 GB
.ndf 200 GB
.ndf 200 GB

18. File-Snapshot Backup
demo

19. Azure SQL DB and Elastic Pools
PaaS offering
No concerns on VHDs, managed disk, throughput, etc.
Performance measure in DTUs
Requires authentication review
Almost full compatibility with on-prem SQL
No inter-database dependencies
No file management

20. Azure SQL DB
Share DTUs among multiple databases Great for saving on costs Does not change functionality Slow when multiple DBs demand peak workload

21. Azure SQL DB and Elastic DB
demo

22. Azure Data Warehouse and NoSQL options

23. No SQL Options
demo

24. Questions

25. Why are you still taking backups?
Links (cont.):
File-snapshot backup
Data platform blog
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