Microsoft Azure storage offers variety of services that can be used to fulfill most of the business needs. Configuration and selection of services differs based on the storage requirements. I have covered most of the services and configuration options in the following post:
In this blogpost, I am going to cover step-by-step process for creating storage accounts, configuring required storage services and selecting right storage replication methodology to fulfill your business needs.
Login to Azure Portal. Create a new resource group or use existing one based on your requirements.
Select “+ Create a resource” to create storage account.
Select “Storage” from the Azure market place and then select “Storage account – blob, file, table, queue”.
In the “Create storage account” panel, enter the unique name for the storage account. This name should be in all lowercase without any space or special characters.
By default deployment model is set to “Resource manager”, if you choose “Classic” under deployment model then you will not be able to select the kind of the storage account and as well as many new features that comes with general purpose v2 storage account.
When you go with default deployment model “Resource Manager”, you can select one of the following account kind:
Storage (general purpose v1)
StorageV2 (general purpose v2)
Blob storage
Select the performance tier based on your requirements.
Standard performance tier provides, four replication methodologies. Select most suitable replication options based on data availability requirements.
If you select premium performance tier then only you have one replication option i.e. LRS, and default access tier will be Hot. In premium storage, there is no option for cold access tier.
All four replication methodology is very specific to location. In few locations, you don’t have option to go with ZRS.
In “Resource Manager” deployment model, you have an option to select virtual network. In general, we don’t enable this option (by default it is disabled) but if you have any specific requirement based on your data confidentiality then you can define the virtual network / subnet so that the services running under specified network subnet can only use this storage account.
Once done with the configuration, click on create to create a storage account with specified storage services. I hope, it gives you a clearer picture about storage configuration in Microsoft Azure. Please feel free to share your experience by leaving a comment in the comment box section.
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