Technical requirements – Securing Storage
This chapter focuses on one of the most common concepts when it comes to Azure andthat is securing storage on the Azure platform. The focus here will be on implementingand…
Azure URL paths for storage – Understanding and Managing Storage
Microsoft will expect youto know the construct for all storage endpoints in the exam. Here is a summary of each endpoint by service type:• File service: https://[storageAccountName].file.core.windows. net• Blob service:…
Configuring Azure Blob storage – Understanding and Managing Storage
Thanks to Azure Storage Explorer, working with blobs on a storage account is very similar and just as easy as working on a file share. For this exercise, we will…
Configuring Azure Files and Azure Blob storage – Understanding and Managing Storage
In the following section, we will work through an example of how we can create file shares and blob storage on a storage account. Creating an Azure file share In…
Exporting from an Azure job – Understanding and Managing Storage
There are two other files created as well—an .xml file and a drive-manifest.xml file. You need these files later for creating an import/export job. The disk is now ready to…
Creating a storage account – Understanding and Managing Storage
For this demonstration, we will first proceed with creating a storage account using the portal and then provide the equivalent PowerShell code to create this using the Az module. Proceed…
PowerShell scripts – Understanding and Managing Storage
Please ensure that the Az module is installed, as per the Technical requirements section at the beginning of the chapter. The following script will create a new storage account (change…
GRS – Understanding and Managing Storage
Thisoption is chosen to protect against a region failure while also offering protection within a single data center for each region. Effectively, you get six copies of data (three in…
Standard disk storage – Understanding and Managing Storage
Standard disk storage offers a hard disk drive (HDD) to store data on, and it is the most cost-effective storage tier that you can choose. It can only use LRS…
Storage access tiers – Understanding and Managing Storage
Blob storage accounts use access tiers to determine how frequently data is accessed. Based on this access tier, you will get billed. Azure offers three storage access tiers: Hot, Cool,…