Implement & Manage Storage in Azure

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Microsoft’s cloud storage solution for modern data storage scenarios

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Azure Storage

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Azure Storage is:

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Durable & highly available, Secure, Scalable, Managed, Accessible

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Generally think of Azure Storage in three categories:

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Storage for VMs, Unstructured data (like Blobs, Data Lakes), Structured Data (Tables, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL DB)

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Azure Storage two tiers:

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Standard & Premium

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Backed by magnetic drives (HDD) & provide lowest cost per GB; require bulk storage or where data is infrequently accessed

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Standard Tier

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Backed by SSDs & offer consistent low-latency performance, use for VMs w/ I/O intensive apps like databases

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Premium Storage

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You ___ convert a Standard storage account to a Premium storage account of vice versa.

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Cannot

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Azure Storage Services:

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Containers (Blobs), Files, Queues, Tables

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Massively scalable object store for text & binary data

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Containers (Blobs)

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Managed file shares for cloud or on-premises deployments

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Files

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A messaging store for reliable messaging between application components

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Queues

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A NoSQL Store for schemaless storage of structured data

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Tables

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Ideal for storage of: images or documents to a browser, storing files for distributed access, streaming video & audio, storing data for backup & restore, disaster recovery & archiving, data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service

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Container (blob) storage

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___ messages can be up to 64KB in size & a queue can contain millions of messages

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Queue

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Four types of storage accounts:

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Standard general purpose v2, Premium block blobs, Premium file shares, Premium page blobs

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Enterprise of high-performance file share applications

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Premium file shares

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Premium high-performance page blob scenarios

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Premium page blobs

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Block blob scenarios with high transaction rates or scenarios that use smaller objects or require consistently low storage latency

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Premium block blobs

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Most scenarios like blob, file, queue, table, & data lake storage

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Standard general purpose v2

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Four types of replication:

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LRS, ZRS, GRS/RA-GRS, GZRS/RA-GZRS

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Lowest-cost replication option, all replicas may be lost or unrecoverable

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Locally redundant storage (LRS)

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Synchronously replicates data across three (3) storage clusters in a single region

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Zone redundant storage (ZRS)

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Replicates your data to a secondary region; 16 9’s durability

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Geo-redundant storage

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Combines the high availability of zone-redundant storage with protection from regional outages as provided by geo-redundant storage

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Geo-zone redundant storage (GZRS)

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Storage account links:

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``` //mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net (substitute blob with table, queue, file) ```

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A service for storing large amounts of unstructured object data, such as text or binary data; aka "object storage"

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Blob Storage

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Blob storage offers three types of resources:

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Storage account, containers in the storage account, blobs in a container

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Provides a grouping set of blobs

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Container

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Blob name can be:

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lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens and must begin with a letter or number & 3-63 chars long

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Blob - Public access level types:

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Private, Blob, Container

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Azure Storage offers three types of blobs:

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Block, page, and append

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Blocks of data assembled to make a blob; ideal for storing text & binary data like files, imagines & videos

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Block blobs (default)

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Like block blobs but optimized for append operations, useful for logging scenarios

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Append blobs

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Can be up to 8TB in size & are efficient for frequent read/write operations; AZ VMs use these

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Page blobs

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Blob upload methods:

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AzCopy, Azure Storage Data Movement Library, Azure Data Factory, Blobfuse, Azure Data Box Disk, Azure Import/Export

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.NET library for moving data between Azure storage services

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Azure Storage Data Movement Library

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Supports copying data to and from blob storage using the account key, shared access signature, service principal, or managed identifies for Azure resources authentications

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Azure Data Factory

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A virtual file system for Azure blob storage; access through Linux file system

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Blobfuse

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A service for transferring on-premises data to Blob storage when large datasets or network constraints make uploading data over the wire unrealistic

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Azure Data Box Disk

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Authorization options

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Azure AD, Shared Key, Shared access signatures, Anonymous access to containers & blobs

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A URI that grants restricted access rights to Azure Storage resources

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Shared access signature (SAS)

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SAS provides both __ and __ control.

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account-level & service-level

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Delegates access to resources in one or more of the storage services

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Account-level SAS

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Delegates access to a resource in just one of the storage services

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Service-level SAS

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When creating an SAS, a URI is created using parameters and tokens, the URI consists of:

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Storage resources & SAS Token

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Data at rest protection

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Azure Storage Service Encryption (SSE)

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Common uses of file storage

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Replace & supplement; Access anywhere; Lift & shift; Azure File sync; Shared aps; Diagnostic data; Tools & Utilities

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Provides SMB, NFS, Client libraries, & a REST interface that allows access from anywhere to stored files

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Azure Files

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true directory objects, accessed through file shares, shared access across multiple VMs

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Azure Files

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Provides the capability to take snapshots of file shares

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Azure Files

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Centralized your org's file shares in Azure Files, while keeping the flexilibility, perforamnce, and compatbility of an on-premises file server

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Azure File Sync

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Azure File Sync benefits:

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Lift & shift, Branch Offices, Backup & Disaster Recovery, File Archiving

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Top-level Azure resource for Azure File Sync; a peer of the storage account resource

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Storage Sync Service

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Defines the sync topology for a set of files

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Sync Group

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Represents a trust relationship between your server (or cluster) and the Storage Sync Service

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Registered Service

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A downloadable package that enables Windows Server to be synced

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Azure File Sync Agent

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File Sync Agent has three main components:

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FileSyncSvc.exe (background Windows service for monitoring changes on server endpoints; StorageSync.sys(Azure File Sync system filter) & PowerShell management cmdlets

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Represents a specific location on a registered server such as a folder

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Server endponit

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An Azure file share that is part of the sync group

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Cloud endpoint

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Four high-level steps for configuring File Sync

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(1) Deploy the Storage Sync Service (2) Prepare Windows Server to use with Azure File Sync (3) Install the Azure File Sync Agent (4) Register Windows Server with Storage Sync Service

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A standalone app that makes it easy to work with Azure Storage data on Windows, macOS, and Linus

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Azure Storage Explorer

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To fully access resources after you sign in, Storage Explorer requires both management (____) and ___ ___ ___.

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ARM, data layer permissions

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Connect to different storage accounts with Storage Explorer:

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Associated with Azure Subscriptions, shared from other Azure subscriptions, and local storage with Azure Storage Emulator

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Service used to securely import large amounts of data to Azure Blob & Files by shipping disk drives to an Azure Datacenter

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Azure Import/Export Service

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Use cases for Azure Import/Export service:

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Migrating data to cloud, Content distribution, Backup, Data recovery

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You supply your own disk drives and transfer data yourself

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Azure Import/Export

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You will be shipping hard drives containing your data

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Import Jobs

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Transfer data from Azure storage to hard drive drives and ship to your on-premise sites

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Export Jobs

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Drive preparation and repair tool you can use with Microsoft Azure Import/Export Service

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Azure Import/Export Tool

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Next-generation CLI utility for copying data to/from Blob & File Storage

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AzCopy v10

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Authentication options for AzCopy

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Azure AD & SAS Tokens

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Azure Storage creates __ __-bit access keys for every storage account that's created.

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two 512

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Azure Storage supports three types of shared access signatures:

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User delegation SAS, Service SAS, Account SAS