diff --git a/docs/ready/considerations/storage-options.md b/docs/ready/considerations/storage-options.md index 85b822d530..9f70f44140 100644 --- a/docs/ready/considerations/storage-options.md +++ b/docs/ready/considerations/storage-options.md @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Azure Storage is the Azure platform's managed service for providing cloud storag Answer the following questions about your workloads to help you make decisions about your storage needs: - **Do your workloads require disk storage to support the deployment of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) virtual machines?** [Azure managed disks](/azure/virtual-machines/managed-disks-overview) provide virtual disk capabilities for IaaS virtual machines. +- **Are you running VMs on Azure VMware Service (AVS) and does your deployment require more storage than the required number of AVS compute nodes provide with vSAN?** Attach [Azure NetApp Files datastores for AVS](/azure/azure-vmware/attach-azure-netapp-files-to-azure-vmware-solution-hosts) to Azure VMware Solution hosts (Preview). - **Will you need to provide downloadable images, documents, or other media as part of your workloads?** [Azure Blob Storage](/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blobs-introduction) hosts static files, which are then accessible for download over the internet. For more information, see [Static website hosting in Azure Storage](/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-static-website). - **Will you need a location to store virtual machine logs, application logs, and analytics data?** You can use Blob Storage to store Azure Monitor log data. See [Storage Analytics](/azure/storage/common/storage-analytics). - **Will you need to provide a location for backup, disaster recovery, or archiving workload-related data?** Blob Storage provides backup and disaster recovery capabilities. For more information, see [Backup and disaster recovery for Azure IaaS disks](/azure/virtual-machines/backup-and-disaster-recovery-for-azure-iaas-disks). @@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ Azure offers multiple products and services for different storage capabilities. |---|---|---| | I use Windows file server. | [Azure Files](/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction) or [Azure File Sync](/azure/storage/file-sync/file-sync-introduction) | With Azure File Sync, you can store rarely used data on cloud-based file shares while caching your most frequently used files on-premises. You can also keep files in sync across multiple servers. If you plan to migrate your workloads to a cloud-only deployment, Azure Files might be sufficient. | | I have an enterprise network attached storage such as NetApp or Dell-EMC Isilon. | [Azure NetApp Files](/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-introduction) or [Azure Files (premium)](/azure/storage/files/storage-files-planning#storage-tiers) | If you have an on-premises deployment of NetApp, consider using Azure NetApp Files to migrate your deployment to Azure. If you're using or migrating to a Windows or Linux server, consider using Azure Files. Also, if you have basic file-share needs, consider using Azure Files. For continued on-premises access, use Azure File Sync to sync file shares with on-premises file shares by using a cloud-tiering mechanism. Cloud tiering uses your server as a cache for the relevant files while scaling cold data in Azure file shares.| -| I have as SMB or NFS file share. | [Azure Files](/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction) or [Azure NetApp Files](/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-introduction) | The choice of premium or standard Azure Files tiers depends on IOPS, throughput, and your need for latency consistency. If you have an on-premises deployment of NetApp, consider using Azure NetApp Files. If you need to migrate your access control lists and timestamps to the cloud, Azure File Sync can bring these settings to your Azure file shares. | +| I have an SMB or NFS file share. | [Azure Files](/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction) or [Azure NetApp Files](/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-introduction) | The choice of premium or standard Azure Files tiers depends on IOPS, throughput, and your need for latency consistency. If you have an on-premises deployment of NetApp, consider using Azure NetApp Files. If you need to migrate access control lists and timestamps to the cloud, Azure File Sync can bring these settings to your Azure file shares. | | I have an on-premises object storage system for petabytes of data, such as Dell-EMC ECS. | [Blob Storage](/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blobs-introduction) | Azure Blob Storage provides premium, hot, cool, and archive tiers to match your workload performance and cost needs. | | I have a Distributed File System Replication deployment or another way of handling branch offices. | [Azure Files](/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction) or [Azure File Sync](/azure/storage/file-sync/file-sync-introduction) | Azure File Sync offers multisite sync for multiple servers and native Azure file shares. Move to a fixed storage footprint on-premises by using cloud tiering. | | I have a tape library for backup and disaster recovery or long-term data retention. | [Blob Storage](/azure/storage/blobs/access-tiers-overview) | A Blob Storage archive tier has the lowest possible cost. It might require hours to copy the offline data to a cool, hot, or Premium tier to allow access. Cool tiers provide instantaneous access at low cost. | @@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ Azure offers multiple products and services for different storage capabilities. |---|---|---| | I want to develop a new cloud-native application that needs to persist unstructured data. | [Blob Storage](/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blobs-introduction) | | | I need to migrate data from an on-premises NetApp instance to Azure. | [Azure NetApp Files](/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-introduction) | | -| I need to migrate data from on-premises Windows file server instances to Azure. | [Azure Files](/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction) | | +| I need to migrate data from on-premises Windows file server instances to Azure. | [Azure Files](/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction) or [Azure NetApp Files](/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-introduction) | | | I need to move file data to the cloud but continue to primarily access the data from on-premises. | [Azure Files](/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction) or [Azure File Sync](/azure/storage/file-sync/file-sync-introduction) | | | I need to support burst compute. I have NFS/SMB read-heavy, file-based workloads with data assets that are on-premises while computation runs in the cloud. | [Avere vFXT for Azure](/azure/avere-vfxt/avere-vfxt-overview) | IaaS scale-out NFS/SMB file caching. | | I need to move an on-premises application that uses a local disk or iSCSI. | [Azure disk storage](/azure/virtual-machines/managed-disks-overview) | | @@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ After you identify the Azure tools that best match your requirements, use this d | [Data Lake Storage Gen2](/azure/storage/blobs/data-lake-storage-introduction) | Blob Storage supports Data Lake Storage Gen2, Microsoft's enterprise big data analytics solution for the cloud. Data Lake Storage Gen2 offers a hierarchical file system, with the advantages of Blob Storage, including low-cost tiered storage, high availability, strong consistency, and disaster recovery capabilities. | | [Azure disk storage](/azure/virtual-machines/managed-disks-overview) | Azure disk storage offers persistent, high-performance block storage to power Azure Virtual Machines. Azure disks are highly durable, secure, and offer the industry's only single-instance service-level agreement (SLA) for virtual machines that use [Premium SSD or Ultra Disk Storage](/azure/virtual-machines/disks-types). Azure disks provide high availability with availability sets and Availability Zones for your Azure Virtual Machines fault domains. Azure manages disks as a top-level resource. Azure Resource Manager capabilities are provided, such as Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC), policy, and tagging by default. | | [Azure Files](/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction) | Azure Files provides fully managed, native SMB file shares, without the need to run a virtual machine. You can mount an Azure Files share as a network drive to any Azure virtual machine or on-premises computer. | +| [Azure NetApp Files](/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-introduction) | Azure NetApp Files is an enterprise-class, high-performance, scalable, metered file storage service that supports any workload and is highly available by default. | | [Azure File Sync](/azure/storage/file-sync/file-sync-introduction) | Azure File Sync can be used to centralize your file shares in Azure Files. Azure File Sync offers the flexibility, performance, and compatibility of an on-premises file server. | | [Azure NetApp Files](/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-introduction) | The Azure NetApp Files service is an enterprise-class, high-performance, metered file storage service. Azure NetApp Files supports any workload type and is highly available by default. You can select service and performance levels and set up snapshots through the service. | | [Azure Stack Edge](/azure/databox-online/) | Azure Stack Edge is an on-premises network device that moves data into and out of Azure. Data Stack Edge has AI-enabled edge compute to preprocess data during upload. Data Box Gateway is a virtual version of the device but with the same data transfer capabilities. |