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-title: Third-party storage options Oracle on Azure VMs 
-description: This article describes third-party storage options Oracle on Azure VMs.
+title: Third-party storage options for Oracle on Azure VMs 
+description: This article describes third-party storage options for Oracle on Azure Virtual Machines.
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-# Third-party storage options Oracle on Azure VMs
+# Third-party storage options for Oracle on Azure VMs
 
-This article describes third-party storage options for a high performance (IOPS and throughput) Oracle workload on Azure virtual machines (VMs). While Microsoft first-party storage offering for Oracle to Azure virtual machine migration is exhaustive in meeting IOPS and throughput. There are outliers use cases that require performance beyond the art of possible by first party storage offering for Oracle on Azure VMs. Considering this unique situation, we're listing the most tested and trusted partner/3rd party storage solutions.  
+This article describes third-party storage options for a high performance (IOPS and throughput) Oracle workload on Azure virtual machines (VMs). While Microsoft first-party storage offering for Oracle to Azure virtual machine migration is exhaustive in meeting IOPS and throughput. There are outliers use cases that require performance beyond the art of possible by first party storage offering for Oracle on Azure VMs. Considering this unique situation, we're listing the most tested and trusted partner/3rd party storage solutions. 
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+## Oracle as a DBaaS on Azure 
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+Oracle migration to Azure IaaS involves more effort of managing infrastructure (VM, Storage, network, backup, etc.) beyond traditional database administration. These other expectations require Azure cloud skills that aren't part of database administration team or managing infrastructure can interfere with defined database operations. In such scenarios, a better option is to use the Oracle Database as a service on Azure (DBaaS). This offering Azure cloud Oracle database that provides access to a database without a need to deploy and manage the underlying infrastructure. DBaaS is delivered as a managed database service, which means that the provider takes care of patching, upgrading, and backing up the database.  [Tessell](https://www.tessell.com/) primarily provides Oracle database as service – PaaS, which is also called as “DBaaS’ – Database as service on Azure. Tessell's DBaaS platform is available for [coselling with Microsoft](https://www.tessell.com/blogs/azure-tessell-ip-co-sell), delivering the full power of Tessell on Azure. Joint Tessell-Microsoft customers can apply Tessell's advanced cloud-based database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform with the expertise and support of Microsoft's sales and technical teams. Tessell’s DBaaS is Azure-native service with the following benefits: 
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+- Oracle self-service, DevOps integration, and production operations without having to deploy and manage the underlying infrastructure.  
+- Running on Azure high-performance-compute (HPC, LSV3 series), the most demanding production Oracle workloads can be brought to Azure.  
+- Support for all Oracle database management packs.  
 
 ## Lightbits performance for Oracle on Azure VMs  
 
-The Lightbits Cloud Data Platform provides scalable and cost-efficient high-performance storage that is easy to consume on Azure. It removes the bottlenecks associated with native storage on the public cloud, such as scalable performance and consistently low latency. Removing these bottlenecks offers rich data services and resiliency that enterprises have come to rely on. It can deliver up to 1 million IOPS/volume and up to 3 million IOPs per VM. Lightbits cluster can scale vertically and horizontally. Lightbits support different sizes of Lsv3 and Lasv3 VMs for their clusters. For options, see L32sv3/L32asv3: 7.68 TB, L48sv3/L48asv3: 11.52 TB, L64sv3/L64asv3: 15.36 TB, L80sv3/L80asv3: 19.20 TB. 
+The Lightbits Cloud Data Platform provides scalable and cost-efficient high-performance storage that is easy to consume on Azure. It removes the bottlenecks associated with native storage on the public cloud, such as scalable performance and consistently low latency. Removing these bottlenecks offers rich data services and resiliency that enterprises have come to rely on. It can deliver up to 1 million IOPS/volume and up to 3 million IOPs per VM. Lightbits cluster can scale vertically and horizontally. Lightbits support different sizes of Lsv3 and Lasv3 VMs for their clusters. 
 
-In testing using real-world workload scenarios, Lightbits delivers up to 4.6X more IOPS than the best available cloud native storage (EBS io2 Block Express), which reaches its limits at around 250 K IOPS. Lightbits on Azure delivers almost 1M sustained IPS of 8 KB while Ultra Disk is limited to only 80 K IOPS of 8 KB.
+For other options, see L32sv3/L32asv3: 7.68 TB, L48sv3/L48asv3: 11.52 TB, L64sv3/L64asv3: 15.36 TB, L80sv3/L80asv3: 19.20 TB. 
 
-:::image type="content" source="media/oracle-third-party/lightbits.png" alt-text="This diagram compares IO2.Bc versus Lightbits Storage for Oracle using SLOB":::   
+In testing using real-world workload scenarios, Lightbits delivers up to 4.6X more IOPS than the best available cloud native storage (EBS io2 Block Express), which reaches its limits at around 250 K IOPS. Lightbits on Azure delivers almost 1M sustained IPS of 8 KB while Ultra Disk is limited to only 80 K IOPS of 8 KB.
 
 The following table provides other inputs to help you to determine the appropriate disk type.
 
 | Parameter                   | Description                   |
 |-----------------------------|------------------------------|
 | Other            | Flexible model at TiB granularity |
 | Provisioning Model          | Incremental snapshot for fast restore; Snapshot export for hardening. |
-| [BCDR](/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/oracle-iaas/oracle-disaster-recovery-oracle-landing-zone)                        | Refer redundancy capabilities of Azure Elastic SAN in redundancy requirements. |
+| [BCDR](/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/oracle-iaas/oracle-disaster-recovery-oracle-landing-zone)                        | See redundancy capabilities of Azure Elastic SAN in redundancy requirements. |
 | Redundancy & Scale Targets  | Encryption at rest is supported. |
 | Encryption                  | Encryption at rest is supported. |
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 ## Tessel: Performance best practices for Oracle on Azure VMs  
 
-[Tessell](https://www.tessell.com/) primarily provides Oracle database as service – PaaS, which is also called as “DBaaS’ – Database as service. Tessell's DBaaS platform is available for [coselling with Microsoft](https://www.tessell.com/blogs/azure-tessell-ip-co-sell), delivering the full power of Tessell on Azure. Joint Tessell-Microsoft customers can use Tessell's advanced cloud-based database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform and the extensive expertise and support of Microsoft's sales and technical teams. Tessell’s DBaaS as Azure-native database-as-a-service (DBaaS), providing you with the following benefits: 
+[Tessell](https://www.tessell.com/) primarily provides Oracle database as service – PaaS, which is also called as “DBaaS’ – Database as service. Tessell's DBaaS platform is available for [coselling with Microsoft](https://www.tessell.com/blogs/azure-tessell-ip-co-sell), delivering the full power of Tessell on Azure. Joint Tessell-Microsoft customers can use Tessell's advanced cloud-based database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform and the extensive expertise and support of Microsoft's sales and technical teams. Tessell’s DBaaS as Azure-native database-as-a-service (DBaaS), provides the following benefits: 
 
 - Oracle self-service, DevOps integration, and production operations without having to deploy and manage the underlying infrastructure.  
 - Run on Azure high-performance-compute (HPC, LSV3 series), the most demanding production Oracle workloads can be brought to Azure.  
 - Support for all Oracle database management packs.  
 
-Apart from providing Oracle as DBaaS on Azure, [Tessell provides NVMe](https://www.tessell.com/blogs/high-performance-database-with-nvme-storage)(Non-Volatile Memory Express) to provide you with high IOPS and throughput required for your Oracle database running on Azure VM. Use NVMe storage mount on L series VMs to achieve IOPS & throughput up to 3,800,000 & 20,000 MB/s. For more information, see [Tessell’s Oracle SLOB](https://www.tessell.com/blogs/azure-oracle-benchmark) benchmark details on Azure. 
+Apart from providing Oracle as DBaaS on Azure, [Tessell provides NVMe](https://www.tessell.com/blogs/high-performance-database-with-nvme-storage) uses Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to provide high IOPS and throughput required to run Oracle database on Azure VMs. Use NVMe storage mount on L series VMs to reach IOPS & throughput up to 3,800,000 & 20,000 MB/s. For more information, see [Tessell’s Oracle SLOB](https://www.tessell.com/blogs/azure-oracle-benchmark) benchmark details on Azure. 
 
 The following table provides other inputs to help you to determine the appropriate disk type.
 
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 ## Silk: Performance best practices for Oracle on Azure VMs  
 
-Silk as a company rewriting the rules of the cloud to make businesses smarter, faster, and fully prepared for whatever the world has in store for them next. Majorly focusing on providing performance (IOPS & throughput) 50 times more than Azure Native storage recommended for Oracle on Azure IaaS. With the storage 1Gib-128TiB per volume, you can get IOPS & Throughput respectively 2,000,000 & 20,000 MB/sec.  
+[Silk](https://silk.us/about-us/) as a company rewriting the rules of the cloud to make businesses smarter, faster, and fully prepared for whatever the world has in store for them next. Majorly focusing on providing [performance](https://silk.us/performance/) (IOPS & throughput) 50 times more than Azure Native storage recommended for Oracle on Azure IaaS. With the storage 1Gib-128TiB per volume, you can get IOPS & Throughput respectively 2,000,000 & 20,000 MB/sec.  
 
 
 The following table provides other inputs to help you to determine the appropriate disk type.
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 | Redundancy & Scale Targets | One-to-Many Multi-Zone and Multi-Region Replication                                                  |
 | Encryption               | Azure Key Vault based & bring your own encryption                                                    |
 
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