Session 2 from the Azure Introduction for IT Pros event held at the Microsoft Norway offices in March 2015.This session explains storage redundancy, backup and disaster discovery features in Azure.

1. Azure IT Pro:
Data Protection with Microsoft Azure
Morgan Simonsen
Lumagate

2. Identity
Virtualization
Data
Platform
Development
DevOps
and mgmt

3. Cloud
Storage
Opportunity

5. 1.2MILLION
AZURE SQL DATABASES
2xCOMPUTE + STORAGE
EVERY 6 MONTHS
STORAGE TRANSACTIONS PER SECOND
3.5mil/sec
STORAGE OBJECTS
TRILLION
30

6. Highly durable and scalable
Multiple copies of your data
Financially backed SLAs
Storage for objects, tables, drives
Supports REST APIs

7. Azure Storage
Defend against regional disasters.

8. The Power Of Choice
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9. Storage in Azure
• Persistent storage
• BLOBs
• VHD drive can be stored in page blobs and attached to instances
• Tables
• Queues
• Azure Files
• Azure SQL Databases
• DocumentDB
• CDN
• Redis Cache

10. Storage access
• Blobs, tables and queues are accessible via URLs
• Accessible via Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs
• Uses HTTP methods : POST, GET, PUT and DELETE
• Requests are signed with the storage key
• Azure Files is accessible via SMB
• Blobs, tables and queues can be accessed from anywhere, Files only inside Azure

11. SQL Server Management Studio
Reliable off-site data backup
for SQL images
Easily restore databases
using VMs
Benefits
Backup and restore database
to the cloud

12. Backup datacenter data to Windows using
System Center Data Protection Manager
Backup and recover files/folders from
Windows Server 2012 SP1 and up
Benefits
Reliable offsite data protection
Simple, familiar, integrated
Efficient backup and recovery
Easy set up
Your On-Premises Datacenter

13. Backup with Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) Agent

14. Simple and fast on-ramp to Azure
Active data instantly available locally
Archives less used data to Azure
Recover data from any internet connection
Reduce enterprise storage TCO by 60-80%

15. Backup to Azure

16. Backing up Virtual Machines
• Guest Container data: traditional approach
• Azure Backup
• Azure Files
• VM in blob storage:
• 3 copies (LRS)
• 3+3 (GRS)
• Blob copies
• Cross storage account
• Cross subscription
• Cross region
• VM Capture
• Generalized (template)
• Specialized (snapshot)

17. What about Azure SQL DB?
•Datasync
•(Auto) Export
•Loads of 3rd party

18. Large Partner Eco System

19. The tools of the trade
• Azure Backup Vault http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/backup/
• Azure Snapshots http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh488361.aspx
• Azure SQL Databases Export http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj650016.aspx
• Azure Powershell/Xplat http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/downloads
• SQL Server 2012SP1 CU2/“SQL Server 2014” http://www.microsoft.com/sql
• StorSimple http://www.storsimple.com
• System Center http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter
• Red Gate Cloud Services https://cloudservices.red-gate.com
• Cerebrata Management Studio http://www.cerebrata.com/products/overview
• CloumsyLeaf CloudXplorer http://clumsyleaf.com/products/cloudxplorer
• BlueSyntax Enzo CloudBackup http://bluesyntax.net/Default.aspx

20. Azure Site Recovery (ASR)

21. Customer Workloads to Azure
Customer 1 DC
Microsoft Azure
Site Recovery
Microsoft Azure
Customer 2 DC
DR OrchestrationDR Orchestration
Target: Microsoft Azure
for Windows Server 2012+ Hyper-V
Extensible Data
Channel

22. Use Cases
• Single click Application recovery
• Compliance Assurance without impacting Production
• Disaster Avoidance – Hurricane warning
• Failover during real disasters – Fire, Earthquake etc.
• Failback to on-premises