Slides from CIAOPS MAy 2018 webinar that provided Azure news update, open Q & A as well as a focus session on Azure storage. Video recording is available at www.ciaopsacademy.com

1. Need to Know Azure Webinar
May 2018
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7. Agenda
- Azure Update
- Azure Storage
- Q & A

9. News
• Explore Build 2018 content playlists
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/explore-build-2018-content-with-playlists/
• Preview of Azure AD authentication for storage
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/announcing-the-preview-of-aad-authentication-for-
storage/
• New updates for Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-updates-for-microsoft-azure-storage-explorer/
• Changes coming to Azure Cloud Shell
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/pscloudshellrefresh/
• Improvements in B2B sharing experience
• https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2018/05/14/exciting-improvements-to-the-
b2b-collaboration-experience/

10. Azure Storage

11. Core Services of Azure IaaS
Compute
Virtual machines
Availability sets
VM scale sets
Storage
Disks
Blob storage
Files
Networking
Virtual networks
VPN, ExpressRoute
Load Balancer
DNS, Traffic Manager
Security &
Management
Log analytics
Backup
Site Recovery
Security Center

12. Queues
Reliable queues at
scale for cloud
services

13. Azure IaaS: Understanding Storage
Azure hosts multiple types of storage
Queues
“Reliable messaging
at scale for cloud
services”
Files
“SMB Access to
Azure Storage”

14. Queues
“Reliable messaging
at scale for cloud
services”
Files
“SMB Access to
Azure Storage”
Page Blob – Optimized for
IaaS disks and supporting
random writes
Append Blob – Optimized
for append operations such
as logs

15. Queues
“Reliable messaging
at scale for cloud
services”
Files
“SMB Access to
Azure Storage”

16. Files
“SMB Access to
Azure Storage”
Queues
“Reliable messaging
at scale for cloud
services”
Azure Queues provide a reliable messaging solution for asynchronous communication between
application components, these could be running in the cloud, on the desktop, on an on-premises
server, or on a mobile device.
Messages typically have a small body with attributes such as a time to live which are used for
configuring the service and representing tasks created by the front end “producer” which are in
turn processed by the back end “consumer”.

17. Queues
“Reliable messaging
at scale for cloud
services”
Files
“SMB Access to
Azure Storage”
Azure File storage offers cloud-based encrypted SMB file shares allowing customers to easily
migrate legacy applications to Azure quickly and without costly rewrites.
In addition to this, Virtual Machines and cloud services can share file data across application
components and with on-premises applications via a simple File service REST API.
Azure File Storage offers availability, scalability and Geo Redundancy allowing you to confidently
store your server data, log files, event data and backups in the cloud.

18. Blobs: Tables:
One of the earliest
and largest users of
the Azure platform

19. Azure IaaS: Replication and High Availability
LRS
ZRS
GRS
RAGRS
When you create a
storage account, you
must select one of
the following
replication options
Maintains three copies of your data within a single facility.
LRS protects your data from normal hardware failures, but not from
the failure of a single facility.
Maintains three copies of your data replicated across two to three
facilities, either within a single region or across two regions,
providing higher durability than LRS.
Maintains six copies of your data, three within the primary region, and
three replicated into a secondary region hundreds of miles away. In the
event of a failure at the primary region, Azure Storage will failover to the
secondary region automatically.
Replicates data to a secondary geographic location, and also
provides read access to the data hosted in the secondary location.

22. DEMO

23. Take aways
• Many different forms of storage in Azure
• Most common IaaS options will be Blob and File storage
• Storage can also be placed on a tier (hot, cool, archive)
• Pricing varies depending on tier select i.e. Premium if more
expensive than archive.
• Azure Storage Explorer is a handy tool

24. Resources
• Azure Storage Overview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6bIUHtdp6Y
• Azure Storage - http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/
• Introduction to Azure Storage - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/storage-
introduction
• About Azure storage accounts - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/storage-
create-storage-account
• Using Azure PowerShell with Azure Storage - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/azure/storage/storage-powershell-guide-full
• Create an Azure File Share - http://blog.ciaops.com/2016/01/creating-azure-smb-file-
share.htmlAzure

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