Session 2 from the Azure Introduction for IT Pros event held at the Microsoft Norway offices in March 2015.This session explains storage redundancy, backup and disaster discovery features in Azure.
9. Storage in Azure
• Persistent storage
• BLOBs
• VHD drive can be stored in page blobs and attached to instances
• Tables
• Queues
• Azure Files
• Azure SQL Databases
• DocumentDB
• CDN
• Redis Cache
10. Storage access
• Blobs, tables and queues are accessible via URLs
• Accessible via Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs
• Uses HTTP methods : POST, GET, PUT and DELETE
• Requests are signed with the storage key
• Azure Files is accessible via SMB
• Blobs, tables and queues can be accessed from anywhere, Files only inside Azure
11. SQL Server Management Studio
Reliable off-site data backup
for SQL images
Easily restore databases
using VMs
Benefits
Backup and restore database
to the cloud
12. Backup datacenter data to Windows using
System Center Data Protection Manager
Backup and recover files/folders from
Windows Server 2012 SP1 and up
Benefits
Reliable offsite data protection
Simple, familiar, integrated
Efficient backup and recovery
Easy set up
Your On-Premises Datacenter
14. Simple and fast on-ramp to Azure
Active data instantly available locally
Archives less used data to Azure
Recover data from any internet connection
Reduce enterprise storage TCO by 60-80%
21. Customer Workloads to Azure
Customer 1 DC
Microsoft Azure
Site Recovery
Microsoft Azure
Customer 2 DC
DR OrchestrationDR Orchestration
Target: Microsoft Azure
for Windows Server 2012+ Hyper-V
Extensible Data
Channel
22. Use Cases
• Single click Application recovery
• Compliance Assurance without impacting Production
• Disaster Avoidance – Hurricane warning
• Failover during real disasters – Fire, Earthquake etc.
• Failback to on-premises