6. 6
• Storage isolation of VM Availability Set
• VM FDs align with Managed Disk FDs
High Availability
• Disks managed by Azure, no direct public access
• Disks as logical top-level resource; Disk level RBAC
Simple Mgmt. and
Security
• Enables scaling free of storage account limitations
• VM Scale Set (VMSS) support
Scale (Custom Image support > 40
VMs)
• Storage isolation of VM Availability Set
• VM FDs align with Managed Disk FDs
High Availability
• Disks managed by Azure, no direct public accessSimple Mgmt. and
7. 3. 2,000 per region per subscription. To increase your limit, contact Azure support
Availability Set Isolation
Disks for different VMs in the Availability Set are placed in different fault domains for isolation of failure points
Provides better reliability for Availability Sets
Azure Disk Encryption leverages the industry standard BitLocker feature of Windows and the DM-Cryptfeature of Linux to provide volume encryption for the OS and the data disks. T
By default, disk caching policy is Read-Only for all the Premium data disks, and Read-Write for the Premium operating system disk attached to the VM. This configuration setting is recommended to achieve the optimal performance for your application’s IOs. For write-heavy or write-only data disks (such as SQL Server log files), disable disk caching so that you can achieve better application performance.
