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Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

You're reading from   Learning Microsoft Azure Storage Build large-scale, real-world apps by effectively planning, deploying, and implementing Azure storage solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884917
Length 276 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Waly Mohamed Waly
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Preface 1. Understanding Azure Storage 101 FREE CHAPTER 2. Delving into Azure Storage 3. Azure Storage for VMs 4. Implementing Azure SQL Databases 5. Beyond Azure SQL Database Management 6. Azure Backup 7. Azure Site Recovery 8. Extending Your Azure Storage Management

An introduction to Azure VMs

Azure VMs is the most well-known, usable, and oldest service available in Azure. Azure VMs provides the deployment of different flavors of Windows and Linux VMs.

Using Azure VMs provides you with full control over the configuration and management of a VM. Management refers to installing software, patching, and even maintaining a VM.

It is no surprise that, when you create a normal VM, whether it is on-premises or off-premises, you need storage for the VM's virtual hard disk. That leads us to understanding that Azure VMs use Azure Storage as a storage provider, and that is what I am going to cover in detail throughout this chapter.

But before getting started and getting our hands dirty with playing with Azure VMs, I'm going to illustrate some confusing points regarding them.

Fortunately, Microsoft bills VMs per minute, not per hour, therefore...

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