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    Learning Microsoft Azure Storage: Build large-scale, real-world apps by effectively planning, deploying, and implementing Azure storage solutions
    Learning Microsoft Azure Storage: Build large-scale, real-world apps by effectively planning, deploying, and implementing Azure storage solutions
    Learning Microsoft Azure Storage: Build large-scale, real-world apps by effectively planning, deploying, and implementing Azure storage solutions
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    Learning Microsoft Azure Storage: Build large-scale, real-world apps by effectively planning, deploying, and implementing Azure storage solutions

    By Mohamed Waly

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    About this ebook

    A step-by-step guide to get you up and running with Azure Storage services and helps you build solutions that leverage effective design patterns

    About This Book
    • Discover best practices for designing and implementing Azure Storage for Azure VMs, and highly available apps
    • Effectively plan, design, and implement SQL databases with Azure
    • Protect your data with Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery
    Who This Book Is For

    This book is targeted at Developers, IT Professionals, and even Database Admins who have experience of working on Microsoft Azure and want to make the most of Azure Storage services. Some knowledge of SQL Server will be beneficial.

    What You Will Learn
    • Understand Azure Storage types and determine the appropriate one for your needs
    • Design Azure Storage for Azure VMs according to best practices
    • Design and implement your SQL Database on Azure according to best practices
    • Learn how to work with Azure Backup
    • Learn how to work with Azure Site Recovery
    • Extend Azure Storage to StorSimple
    • Monitor storage metrics and logs and customize the Azure monitoring dashboard
    • Monitor and troubleshoot Azure Storage
    In Detail

    Microsoft Azure Storage is the bedrock of Microsoft's core storage solution offering in Azure. No matter what solution you are building for the cloud, you'll find a compelling use for Azure Storage. This book will help you get up-to-speed quickly on Microsoft Azure Storage by teaching you how to use the different storage services. You will be able to leverage secure design patterns based on real-world scenarios and develop a strong storage foundation for Azure virtual machines.

    You will start this book with an introduction to Microsoft Azure storage and how it can be used to build large-scale, real-world applications using Azure storage services such as blob, table, queue, and file. This book will also teach you about the different types of Azure Storage. You will then find out the best practices for designing your Azure VM storage, whether it is Windows based or Linux based and how to migrate your storage in different scenarios. You will learn also how to plan and implement your SQL database solution on Azure, and how to build your SQL database in different service models (IaaS/PaaS). Moreover, you will also learn best practices for dealing with Azure Backup, the role of Azure Site Recovery, and the solutions they offer in different scenarios. Finally, you will use StorSimple to unlock the maximum value from all of your data, and some tools that will help you manage your storage on-and off-premise (Azure), such as AzCopy and Storage Explorer. Monitoring your storage in no laughing matter, so you will learn to monitor, diagnose and troubleshoot it.

    Style and approach

    This book will provide an in-depth insight into properly designing your environment and saving money on your running workloads. Using cutting-edge examples, you will be able to efficiently monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot Azure Storage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateNov 15, 2017
    ISBN9781785889523
    Learning Microsoft Azure Storage: Build large-scale, real-world apps by effectively planning, deploying, and implementing Azure storage solutions

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      Learning Microsoft Azure Storage - Mohamed Waly

      Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

      Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

      Build large-scale, real-world apps by effectively planning, deploying, and implementing Azure Storage solutions

      Mohamed Waly

      BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

      Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

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      About the Author

      Mohamed Waly has shown interest in IT since he was a student. The journey began in 2011 when he joined the college of computer science where he started learning how to work with Windows Server 2008 and was the youngest among his colleagues at the college to achieve certification. In 2012, he joined one of the greatest and most well-known student programs in the world, the Microsoft Student Partner program. During the time he spent on the program, he took many communication and presentation skills sessions that helped him to deliver many sessions since his second year at college and the journey continues until now. In the meantime, Waly learned some other topics such as Exchange Server System Center, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure.

      He has worked in multiple communities, such as the Azure Community in Egypt, and the Open Source on Azure. Also, he served multiple internships during his time in the university to improve his experience. That's why, in July 2014, Microsoft recognized Mohamed Waly as the youngest MVP in the world. After finishing college, he worked for two of the biggest Microsoft Partners in Egypt—Global Knowledge and Blue Cloud Technologies—as a system engineer and an associate infrastructure consultant, respectively, serving Microsoft Customers in the EMEA region by designing and implementing virtualization and Cloud solutions.

      This book would not have seen the light without the help of many people. First, I'd like to thank the team at Packt, which includes Rahul Nair, Sweeny Dias, Komal Karne, Nithin George, and every member of staff from Packt who has helped in producing the book in that manner.

      Of course, the technical reviews Bert Wolters, Sjoukje Zaal, and Demiliani Stefano have added great value to the book. I'd like to thank them for their endless support.

      Last but not least, I'd like to thank my teammates at Blue Cloud Technologies for sharing their experience with me all the time and their guidance along the way: Moataz Shaaban, Karim Hamdy, Mohamed Saeed, and Emad Samir. I really consider them as a blessing and my second family.

      About the Reviewers

      Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), MCSA, MCAD, MCTS on Microsoft Dynamics NAV, MCTS on SharePoint, MCTS on SQL Server and a longtime expert on other Microsoft-related technologies. He has a master's degree in computer engineering from Politecnico of Turin. 

      Currently, he works as a senior project manager and solution architect for EID, a company of Navlab group, one of the biggest Microsoft Dynamics groups in Italy (where he's also the chief technical officer). His main task is architecting and developing enterprise solutions based on the entire stack of Microsoft technologies (Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft SharePoint, Azure, cloud apps and .NET applications in general, data analysis, and BI solutions) and he's often focused on engineering distributed service-based applications. He works as a full-time NAV consultant (with more than 15 years of international NAV projects) and solution developer and he is available for architecting solutions based on the Microsoft's ERP, for NAV database tuning and optimization (performance and locking management) and for architecting cloud solutions and apps. He's the author of different Microsoft Certified for NAV add-ons.

      Stefano writes many articles and blogs on different Microsoft-related topics and he's frequently involved in consulting and teaching. He has worked with Packt in the past on many technical Microsoft-related books and he's recently the author of Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, a book about enterprise solution development with the NAV ERP, Azure Cloud services, and Microsoft technologies. In its free time, Stefano is a runner and a cyclist.

      Bert Wolters is currently a lead consultant in hybrid datacenter at the Dutch company Inspark. Bert started his professional life in the Dutch Military, but around 1999 found his talents to be in IT, helping out the platoon and unit leaders with small IT issues in the field. By the time he started on his first Microsoft certification in 2005, he had found his new vocation in life. His ability to look at all sides of a story (issues/problems, solutions, and implementation), was formed by the wide variety of jobs he took. Having a background in the business side of IT as well as Incident and Change Manager, and in the field as engineer and consultant, helps him deliver the most comprehensive solutions for businesses whether technology or business-case driven.

      Since 2010, he further specialized in Microsoft infrastructure technology, focusing on system and platform management and is still riding Microsoft’s wave of innovation, looking forward to, and experimenting with, every single new infrastructure feature of Microsoft Azure. Because of this focus, he decided to resign from the Dutch PowerShell User Group (DuPSUg), and the System Center User Group in The Netherlands (SCUG_NL), and chair the Experts Live Foundation.

      He currently advises companies on how to get the most out of their Azure platform implementation or System Center Suite and provides knowledge on Microsoft’s hybrid cloud, Hyper-V, Azure Stack, Microsoft OMS, and StorSimple.

      I would like to thank my girlfriend and daughters for putting up with all of my efforts to gain and share knowledge. I also give thanks to Mohamed Waly for accepting me in his team of reviewers.

      Sjoukje Zaal is a Microsoft Azure MVP, a Principal Architect and Lead Productivity and with over 15 years of experience providing architecture, development, consultancy, and design expertise. She works at Ordina, a system integrator based in the Netherlands. She is very active in the Microsoft community as co-founder of SP&C NL and MixUG, writer, public speaker and on MSDN/TechNet.

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      Table of Contents

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the color images of this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      Understanding Azure Storage 101

      An introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage

      Why Azure Storage?

      Terminologies

      ASM versus ARM model

      Azure classic portal (ASM model)

      Azure portal (ARM model)

      Deployment model tricks

      Azure Storage types

      Durability

      Replication types

      Locally redundant storage

      Zone Redundant Storage

      Geo-redundant storage

      Read-access geo-redundant storage

      Performance

      Standard Storage

      Premium Storage

      Persistency

      Persistent storage

      Non-persistent storage

      Azure Storage accounts

      General-purpose storage accounts

      Blob storage accounts

      Hot access tier

      Cool access tier

      Azure Storage Account tips

      Creating an Azure Storage account

      Automating your tasks

      Azure PowerShell

      Installing the Azure PowerShell module

      Installing the Azure PowerShell module from the PowerShell Gallery

      Creating a storage account in the Azure portal using PowerShell

      Azure command-line interface

      Installing the Azure CLI 2.0

      Creating a Storage account using the Azure CLI 2.0

      Summary

      Delving into Azure Storage

      Azure Storage services

      Blob storage

      Creating Blob storage

      Blob storage key points

      Table storage

      PartitionKey

      RowKey

      Timestamp

      Creating Table storage

      Table storage key points

      Queue storage

      Creating Queue storage

      Queue storage key points

      File storage

      File storage advantages

      Creating File storage

      File storage key points

      Understanding the Azure Storage architecture

      Front-End layer

      Partition layer

      Stream layer

      Sparse storage and TRIM in Azure

      Securing Azure Storage

      RBAC

      Granting the reader role to a user using RBAC

      Access keys

      SAS

      Storage design for highly available applications

      RA-GRS

      Azure Backup

      Azure Site Recovery

      Premium Storage

      Understanding client libraries

      Automating tasks

      Creating Blob storage using PowerShell

      Creating Blob storage using the Azure CLI 2.0

      Creating Table storage using PowerShell

      Creating Table storage using the Azure CLI 2.0

      Creating Queue storage using PowerShell

      Creating Queue storage using the Azure CLI 2.0

      Creating a file share using PowerShell

      Granting the reader role to a user with RBAC using PowerShell

      Granting the reader role for a user with RBAC using the Azure CLI 2.0

      Regenerating storage account access keys using PowerShell

      Regenerating storage account access keys using the Azure CLI 2.0

      Summary

      Azure Storage for VMs

      An introduction to Azure VMs

      Azure VMs series

      Creating an Azure VM

      VM settings

      Storage considerations for Azure VMs

      Managed versus unmanaged disks

      Managed disks key points

      VM disks

      Adding a data disk to Azure VM

      Data disks key points

      Resizing disks

      Host caching

      Read-only

      Read/write

      None

      Host caching key points

      Changing the host caching type

      Capturing VMs

      Sysprepping the VM

      Capturing the VM with managed storage

      Capturing the VM with unmanaged storage

      Automating the tasks

      Creating an Azure VM using PowerShell

      Network resources

      VM configuration

      Creating the VM

      Creating an Azure VM using the Azure CLI 2.0

      Adding data disks to an Azure VM using PowerShell

      Adding data disks to an Azure VM using the Azure CLI 2.0

      Resizing Azure VM disks using PowerShell

      Resizing Azure VM disks using the Azure CLI 2.0

      Changing the host caching using PowerShell

      Changing the host caching using the Azure CLI 2.0

      Capturing the VM using PowerShell

      Capturing the VM using the Azure CLI 2.0

      Further information

      Summary

      Implementing Azure SQL Databases

      An introduction to Azure SQL Database

      Why

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