Azure Elastic SAN moves SAN to the cloud

Azure is pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Elastic SAN, the first fully managed and cloud-native storage area network (SAN)

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Elastic SAN uses iSCSI to increase storage throughput over compute network bandwidth for throughput and IOPS-intensive workloads

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Optimization of SQL Server workloads is possible. SQL Server deployments on Azure VMs sometimes require overprovisioning to reach disk throughput targets

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The Azure Elastic SAN solution removes the VM bandwidth bottleneck and boosts IO throughput

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The Azure-Sponsored migration tool by Cirrus Data Solutions in the Azure Marketplace simplifies data migration planning and execution

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Its native Azure Storage experience lets you deploy and connect an Elastic SAN datastore through the Azure Portal in minutes as a first-party service

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Elastic SAN’s dynamic resource sharing lowers storage costs, and since your data persists on volumes, you can spin down your cluster for more savings

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SQL Server deployments on Azure VMs sometimes require overprovisioning to reach disk throughput targets

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Actual database instances spike during business hours for inquiries and off-hours for reporting. Combining workloads' peak IOPS was 50,000. Read more on Govindhtech.com

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