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@@AzureAcademy 1.Azure SQL VMs, Azure SQL Databases & Azure SQL Managed Instances . 2.Database Partitioning. 3.Offline & Online Migration of Databases to Azure. 4.Security for data at rest and data in transit i.e Transparent data encryption, object level encryption, dynamic data masking. There's alot more but that would be great to start with as our data series here at the Azure academy grow. Again, thanks for this awesome channel.
@@AzureAcademy Focus on Managed Instance would be great. I am currently in a project and moving from one problem to another due to various limitations. Best practice videos like yours, which always get to the point, would definitely prevent this.
New subscriber here. Awesome videos. I watched your shared managed disks video also. Would you use Azure Premium Files or Shared Managed Disks for hyper-v failover clusters? Say for 3 VMs each size 40GB or so?
Thanks for the sub M G! good question...but the better question is which fits your workload requirements 😜 What are those VMs doing, and what kind of storage performance do they need?
@@AzureAcademy thanks for the reply! I guess I figured you may ask that... Best way to visualize is perhaps they are closest to a 10 user terminal server each, running office type apps. It looks like shared disk is much faster so probably necessary for this workload, right? I love how premium files are easy to expand, and I don’t have to increase cost in large jumps (256G to 512G for instance), and how easy it is to backup, but bottom line for hyperV on this workload is speed then? I would just need to figure out how to back hyperV on a shared disk since azure does not support that as far as I can tell. Probably use hyperV storage replica?
Agreed...if raw storage performance at low latency is the preference then direct storage may be the way to go, the only thing to remember in your calculations is the total IOPS load of all the VMs writing to the shared volume at once. you may need a large disk to do that...Azure files would not have that concern...just make the share as large as you need and you are done...expanding over time is also easier.
Excellent video as always, enjoy the content you guys put out. The announcement for multichannel is a life saver when trying to completely move company shares to AzFiles since without it performance is horrific. Any ideas when Premium files w/ multichannel support will be GA or when Standard will be in preview?
@@AzureAcademy figured you didn't but didn't hurt to ask :) had a case open for files about a month ago and he said he spoke to the PG and US Central was starting preview for multichannel and would soon start deploying to other regions. do you find more people shifting to premium for WVD or does standard seem to work for most people's workloads? using fslogix for profiles of course
I find that most people use FSLogix with WVD and if the number of users puts them over 10,000 IOPS they are looking at Premium files. If they need over 100,000 IOPS or have other enterprise class workloads then they look at Azure NetApp Files
Thanks!!! Already done...did it in 2 parts let me know if you have other suggestions, I'd love to make them! Azure Migrate Asseeements th-cam.com/video/tN4BS9qJkao/w-d-xo.html Server Migrations th-cam.com/video/8F0J-1w7fYA/w-d-xo.html
Would you recommend using Premium Files in a WVD deployment for say 10 users? Or would Standard be plenty? Or would you just use a managed disk on a vm?
There is no reason I would use a VM for my WVD / FSLogix Profiles. for 10 users I would lean towards Standard. Reason is that each user will consume an average of 50 IOPS during logon then 10 on average daily use. So 10 users...if they log in at the same time will hit 500 IOPS on average. Azure Files standard share will scale up to 1,000 IOPS. You can also enable Large File Shares and get up to 10,000 IOPS in a standard files share
Hi Azure Academy, WVD deployment shows successful however the VM's in the Host Pool Shows unavailable. Not able to figure out the reason behind this. No errors. I have reinstalled the agent and restarted the bootloader services and for few seconds it shows available and again it turns out to unavailable. Could please let me know what need to check to fix this issue ?
can you back up a SQL Server database to Azure premium files? We are looking to reduce backup and restore time for 1TB database. Right now the whole process takes about 2 hours.
In production you are correct because preview features almost never come with SLAs But Dev, test and QA environment is a great place for preview features
I think you are asking if it is different then a file server VM in Azure...so I will say it depends If you want to compare 100TB of storage and 100,000 IOPS of performance vs a VM then YES it is cheaper. If you have less storage or need less speed then it depends. I would use the azure price calculator to find the cost of the VM you have in mind then look up the cost of premium files and standard files and see which works better for you
Great video as always. I'll be sure to keep up with the new channel as well! Regarding SMB multi-channel file share. It's not allowing me to enable the setting in my subscription. I manually went to aka.ms/smbmultichannelpreview as well as by selecting the link in your description and I'm not seeing the setting. I only have Active Directory and Soft Delete listed. It is a premium storage account with only a premium file share in it, with Active Directory configured but no soft delete. Am I missing something? I tried in an incognito window as well, if that helps with troubleshooting.
in the video description I put some info about the multichannel preview check this command and see if you are registered Get-AzProviderFeature -FeatureName AllowSMBMultichannel -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Storage If not run this one Register-AzProviderFeature -featurename AllowSMBMultichannel -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Storage then go to aka.ms/smbMultichannelPreview and try again
@@AzureAcademy I missed that register part! I did that about an hour ago, it took about 15 minutes to flip to registered after running the command. I do see the setting now, but receive the following error when trying to enable it: " FeatureNotSupportedOnStorageAccount. Feature cannot be enabled on this storage account." Here is some info from the storage account I am trying to enable it on: Performance : Premium Replication : Locally-redundant storage (LRS) Account kind : FileStorage Does anything stick out to you? Also I am getting a 404 when trying to navigate to the smb multi channel blog post from azure.microsoft.com linked in your description
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Glad to see Christiaan with you at Azure academy. Thank you so much for sharing the updated content with us.
More to come...share The Azure Academy with others and stay tuned!
so touching for an excellent video
Thanks!
I would agree with you to start Azure SQL series on here at the Azure Academy
will do...any specific topics you want us to start with?
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1.Azure SQL VMs, Azure SQL Databases & Azure SQL Managed Instances .
2.Database Partitioning.
3.Offline & Online Migration of Databases to Azure.
4.Security for data at rest and data in transit i.e Transparent data encryption, object level encryption, dynamic data masking.
There's alot more but that would be great to start with as our data series here at the Azure academy grow. Again, thanks for this awesome channel.
@@AzureAcademy Focus on Managed Instance would be great. I am currently in a project and moving from one problem to another due to various limitations. Best practice videos like yours, which always get to the point, would definitely prevent this.
Awesome list...will get to work!
New subscriber here. Awesome videos. I watched your shared managed disks video also. Would you use Azure Premium Files or Shared Managed Disks for hyper-v failover clusters? Say for 3 VMs each size 40GB or so?
Thanks for the sub M G! good question...but the better question is which fits your workload requirements 😜 What are those VMs doing, and what kind of storage performance do they need?
@@AzureAcademy thanks for the reply! I guess I figured you may ask that... Best way to visualize is perhaps they are closest to a 10 user terminal server each, running office type apps. It looks like shared disk is much faster so probably necessary for this workload, right? I love how premium files are easy to expand, and I don’t have to increase cost in large jumps (256G to 512G for instance), and how easy it is to backup, but bottom line for hyperV on this workload is speed then? I would just need to figure out how to back hyperV on a shared disk since azure does not support that as far as I can tell. Probably use hyperV storage replica?
Agreed...if raw storage performance at low latency is the preference then direct storage may be the way to go, the only thing to remember in your calculations is the total IOPS load of all the VMs writing to the shared volume at once. you may need a large disk to do that...Azure files would not have that concern...just make the share as large as you need and you are done...expanding over time is also easier.
Excellent video as always, enjoy the content you guys put out. The announcement for multichannel is a life saver when trying to completely move company shares to AzFiles since without it performance is horrific. Any ideas when Premium files w/ multichannel support will be GA or when Standard will be in preview?
Thanks @Bill not sure on the GA date...it just became available in public preview this week...
@@AzureAcademy figured you didn't but didn't hurt to ask :) had a case open for files about a month ago and he said he spoke to the PG and US Central was starting preview for multichannel and would soon start deploying to other regions.
do you find more people shifting to premium for WVD or does standard seem to work for most people's workloads? using fslogix for profiles of course
I find that most people use FSLogix with WVD and if the number of users puts them over 10,000 IOPS they are looking at Premium files. If they need over 100,000 IOPS or have other enterprise class workloads then they look at Azure NetApp Files
Does Premium File Shares require "Large File Shares" set to "Enabled" if we need to go beyond 5 TB ?
no it does not, Standard needs Large File shares to get up to 10,000 IOPS or over 5
Kindly make video on Azure ASR on prem to azure migration (including deploying configuration server ).
Thanks!!! Already done...did it in 2 parts let me know if you have other suggestions, I'd love to make them!
Azure Migrate Asseeements
th-cam.com/video/tN4BS9qJkao/w-d-xo.html
Server Migrations
th-cam.com/video/8F0J-1w7fYA/w-d-xo.html
Would you recommend using Premium Files in a WVD deployment for say 10 users? Or would Standard be plenty? Or would you just use a managed disk on a vm?
There is no reason I would use a VM for my WVD / FSLogix Profiles. for 10 users I would lean towards Standard. Reason is that each user will consume an average of 50 IOPS during logon then 10 on average daily use. So 10 users...if they log in at the same time will hit 500 IOPS on average. Azure Files standard share will scale up to 1,000 IOPS. You can also enable Large File Shares and get up to 10,000 IOPS in a standard files share
@@AzureAcademy you now your stuff Mr. Cefola! Thanks for the prompt answer. Love all the content!
@@AzureAcademy Would you bother with the Transaction Optimized file share tier over Standard?
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not sure how since I haven't tested it...give it a try and let us know the results!
Hi Azure Academy, WVD deployment shows successful however the VM's in the Host Pool Shows unavailable. Not able to figure out the reason behind this. No errors.
I have reinstalled the agent and restarted the bootloader services and for few seconds it shows available and again it turns out to unavailable.
Could please let me know what need to check to fix this issue ?
do you have monitoring setup for the WVD resources and the VMs?
I'd like to check out the desktopsinthecloud channel, but I have failed to find it. Can you link it?
Sure...you can get to it from The Azure Academy home page on the right side...or use this link th-cam.com/channels/v0_Y1wcKvTnLOEmf-3S45Q.html
thanks...
You're welcome!
can you back up a SQL Server database to Azure premium files? We are looking to reduce backup and restore time for 1TB database. Right now the whole process takes about 2 hours.
you have multiple options here. You can backup the database to Azure Backup directly or you can back up the file share.
Is that 30TB of storage, but no AD file permissions?
That is 30TB how ever you want it. with or with out AD Auth.
Does not Microsoft recommends that you don't use preview features in a production in environment.
In production you are correct because preview features almost never come with SLAs
But Dev, test and QA environment is a great place for preview features
Will this be cheaper than using managed disks?
I think you are asking if it is different then a file server VM in Azure...so I will say it depends
If you want to compare 100TB of storage and 100,000 IOPS of performance vs a VM then YES it is cheaper. If you have less storage or need less speed then it depends.
I would use the azure price calculator to find the cost of the VM you have in mind then look up the cost of premium files and standard files and see which works better for you
Great video as always. I'll be sure to keep up with the new channel as well!
Regarding SMB multi-channel file share. It's not allowing me to enable the setting in my subscription. I manually went to aka.ms/smbmultichannelpreview as well as by selecting the link in your description and I'm not seeing the setting. I only have Active Directory and Soft Delete listed. It is a premium storage account with only a premium file share in it, with Active Directory configured but no soft delete. Am I missing something?
I tried in an incognito window as well, if that helps with troubleshooting.
in the video description I put some info about the multichannel preview
check this command and see if you are registered
Get-AzProviderFeature -FeatureName AllowSMBMultichannel -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Storage
If not run this one
Register-AzProviderFeature -featurename AllowSMBMultichannel -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Storage
then go to aka.ms/smbMultichannelPreview and try again
@@AzureAcademy I missed that register part! I did that about an hour ago, it took about 15 minutes to flip to registered after running the command. I do see the setting now, but receive the following error when trying to enable it:
"
FeatureNotSupportedOnStorageAccount.
Feature cannot be enabled on this storage account."
Here is some info from the storage account I am trying to enable it on:
Performance
: Premium
Replication
: Locally-redundant storage (LRS)
Account kind
: FileStorage
Does anything stick out to you? Also I am getting a 404 when trying to navigate to the smb multi channel blog post from azure.microsoft.com linked in your description
@@tharagz08 Same issue for me as well.
hm..not sure what the issue is there...I would suggest unregistering waiting for 30 minutes and reregistering then trying the preview portal again
sorry to hear you are having an issue....I would suggest unregistering waiting for 30 minutes and reregistering then trying the preview portal again