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Published inNov 2017

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Mohamed Waly

Extending Your Azure Storage Management

Our journey is coming to an end, and I hope that it has been a beneficial one for you. In this chapter, more information related to Azure Storage management will be covered. Azure StorSimple will be introduced, the reasons for using it, and how to work with it. After that, two of the cool tools for storage management (AzCopy and Azure Storage Explorer) will be covered, and finally, you will be introduced to the three musketeers of Azure Storage: monitoring, diagnosing, and troubleshooting.

In this chapter, the following topics will be covered:

Azure StorSimple
AzCopy
Azure Storage Explorer
Azure Storage's three musketeers

Azure StorSimple

Nowadays, we are facing many storage challenges. One of them is rapid data growth that exceeds 40%, which leads to more expense for storage, its protection, and its recovery. StorSimple would be a good fit in these scenarios, especially since it spans across on-premises and Azure Cloud, which means you do not have to worry about a storage shortage anymore.

Azure StorSimple is an integrated storage solution. This solution is one of the greatest solutions for managing storage across on-premises devices/hypervisors and Azure Storage. It can manage your primary storage, archival storage, tape backup, and so on. Whatever the type of disk (HDD or SSD), it can manage it. Then, you can assign each part of the storage to the solution that would need it.

There are many reasons for using Azure StorSimple, as stated in the following points:

Cost reduction: According to the...

AzCopy

AzCopy is a command-line tool that is used for copying data to and from Azure Storage Blob, File, and Table services, or to and from objects within the same storage account, and even between different storage accounts.

AzCopy is available in two flavors:

AzCopy on Windows
AzCopy on Linux

You can download AzCopy for Windows from the following link: http://az837173.vo.msecnd.net/azcopy-6-3-0/MicrosoftAzureStorageTools.msi
You can download AzCopy for Linux from the following link: https://azcopy.azureedge.net/azcopy-6-0-0-netcorepreview/azcopy_6.0.0_netcorepreview_all.tar.gz
AzCopy on Linux works for macOS too.

The installation of AzCopy is very straightforward, and once it is installed you have to navigate to its installation path to be able to run its commands. Working with AzCopy is very easy and the data move process can be executed smoothly.

...

Azure Storage Explorer

Azure Storage Explorer is a simple application for managing Azure Storage. It is easy to work with, and is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Currently, Azure Storage Explorer is still in preview.

You can download Azure Storage Explorer from the following link, and you only need to specify your OS to download a compatible version: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/.

Connecting to Azure Storage using Azure Storage Explorer

Once Azure Storage Explorer is installed, and you have opened it, you will be prompted to specify how you want to connect to your storage.

There are three ways to connect:

Add an Azure account, specifying Azure environment (Azure, Azure China, Azure...

Azure Storage's three musketeers

Facing issues while working with an application/VM that works on Azure because of Azure Storage would be painful. Therefore, to avoid such a scenario, you should monitor your environment properly, diagnose the issue, and troubleshoot it once it occurs. And there's the three musketeers that will save your day: monitoring, diagnosing, and troubleshooting.

To monitor your storage services, you have to navigate to your storage account and select its metrics to display the monitored metrics, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.36: Display Blob storage service metrics

You can also add alerts, in case a metric exceeded a threshold set by you. To do so, you have to navigate to the storage account that you want to monitor, scroll down to Alert rules, and click on Add alert. A new blade will pop up, where you will need to fill in the...

Summary

This chapter has covered some of the coolest tools that can be used with Azure Storage. You can read the articles by clicking on the links provided for more information.

It's been a fruitful journey talking about Azure Storage, why you should use it, and how to work with it in different scenarios. I hope you have gained the knowledge you need from this book, and I'd like to thank you for reading it.

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