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Azure Disk Storage

About Azure Disk Storage

Azure Disk Storage is a block storage service designed for Azure Virtual Machines. It allows creation and management of disks with options addressing cost and performance needs. It offers redundancy options for managed disks. Data protection includes encryption, durability, and access control.

Products

  • Azure Elastic SAN: Provides block storage with millions of IOPS for transaction-heavy workloads.

Used for

  • Attaching a disk to multiple virtual machines simultaneously for clustered app deployment or migration.
  • Running mission critical IO-intensive enterprise applications such as SAP HANA.
  • Running enterprise production workloads including SQL Server, NoSQL, MariaDB, Cassandra, and MongoDB.
  • Running big data applications such as Cloudera/Hadoop and dev/test workloads.
  • Migrating on-premises Windows and Linux-based clustered or highly available applications to Azure.

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azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/disks
CategoryCloud Infrastructure
SubcategoryCloud Storage & Backup

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