Newest developments in Premium SSD v2 and Extremely Azure Managed Disks

We’re excited to share the newest developments in Premium SSD v2 and Extremely disks, the subsequent technology of Azure disk storage.

We’re excited to share the newest developments in Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Extremely disks, the subsequent technology of Azure disk storage. We now have enhanced the backup and catastrophe restoration expertise for Pv2 and Extremely disks that can assist you shield your workloads with ease. As well as, we now have improved the safety measures for Digital Machines (VMs) geared up with Pv2 and Extremely. Keep tuned as we delve into these thrilling new options! 

Pv2 and Extremely disks provide excessive throughput, excessive enter/output operations per second (IOPS), and low latency for situations starting from enter/output (IO)-intensive workloads like SAP Excessive-performance Analytic Equipment (SAP HANA) to common objective purposes throughout Relational Database Administration System (RDBMS), SQL, and NoSQL databases. Pv2 options an unparalleled stability of value and efficiency—a 23% price-performance enchancment over the competing cloud in line with a 2023 GigaOm report—and Extremely gives high efficiency with low sub-millisecond latency.

Incremental snapshots of Pv2 and Extremely Disks—now typically out there

In August 2023, we made incremental snapshots of Pv2 and Extremely disks typically out there. Incremental snapshots are dependable and cost-effective point-in-time backups of your disks that retailer solely the modifications made for the reason that final snapshot.

Switching to Premium SSD v2 disks empowers Teradata with enhanced flexibility to attain optimum storage efficiency in our prospects’ VantageCloud Lake environments. We’re thrilled to witness the overall availability of incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 disks because it allows swift recreation and restoration to new disks, resulting in a quicker and extra seamless onboarding expertise for our prospects.

—Neeraj Jain, Director, Cloud Product Administration, Teradata

Under are some widespread makes use of for incremental snapshots:

1. Backup: You should utilize incremental snapshots to create a point-in-time backup of Pv2 and Extremely disks to get better from unintended knowledge loss.
2. Regional catastrophe restoration: You possibly can shield in opposition to regional disasters by copying incremental snapshots of Pv2 and Extremely disks to any area of your selection.
3. Refresh improvement environments from manufacturing: You possibly can create incremental snapshots of your Pv2 and Extremely disks in manufacturing and use these to replace your improvement or coaching surroundings.

—Shanti Gaudreault, VP of Engineering, Unity Cloud Companies

Totally managed backup and catastrophe restoration options

Past incremental snapshots, we’re excited to share the brand new Azure native absolutely managed backup and restoration options for Pv2 and Extremely disks. With these options, you possibly can shield your VMs and disks in a single click on.

Common availability: Azure VM Backup with Pv2 and Extremely Disks

Azure VM Backup is a totally managed, easy, and safe backup answer designed to safeguard VMs in opposition to disasters. An important element of the backup course of entails taking application-consistent incremental snapshots of all disks hooked up to a VM. These snapshots are then securely transferred to the Restoration Companies Vault for long-term storage.

To make sure enterprise continuity and restoration within the occasion of disasters or ransomware assaults, you possibly can allow Azure Backup on VMs geared up with Pv2 and Extremely disks. This enhancement additional strengthens the robustness of our backup answer for Pv2 and Extremely disks. To be taught extra, seek advice from this documentation.

Common availability: Azure Disk Backup with Pv2 and Extremely disks

Azure Disk Backup is a snapshot lifecycle administration answer for disks. It automates periodic creation of incremental snapshots and retains them for nonetheless lengthy you specify. It’s an agentless answer and doesn’t influence manufacturing software efficiency. Now you can allow Azure Backup on particular person Pv2 and Extremely disks. To get began, seek advice from this documentation.

Non-public preview: Azure Web site Restoration for Pv2 Disks

Azure Web site Restoration (ASR) helps mitigate knowledge loss by way of steady replication of the supply VM and disks to a secondary area. It minimizes the influence of outages by decreasing software restoration time, and it reduces your infrastructure value by simplifying deployment and administration. ASR for Pv2 disks is now in personal preview, you possibly can fill out this manner to enroll.

Common availability: Software constant VM restore factors for Pv2 and Extremely Disks

Software constant VM restore factors are elementary to backup and catastrophe restoration options. We obtain software consistency by utilizing an agent working within the VM to seize reminiscence content material and pending enter or output (I/O) operations whereas additionally making certain the restore level is constant throughout a number of disks of a VM. Now you can create software constant VM restore factors in your VMs with Pv2 and Extremely disks. To get began, seek advice from this documentation.

Third-party backup and catastrophe restoration assist

The backup and restoration expertise on Pv2 and Extremely can be elevated by our third-party companions. Veeam, Rubrik, and OpenText now provide backup assist for Pv2 and Extremely disks, and Veritas now provides backup assist for Extremely disk.

Veeam Backup assist for Pv2 and Extremely disks

Veeam Backup, a knowledge safety and catastrophe restoration device, now helps backups for VMs utilizing Pv2 and Extremely disks. With Veeam Backup, you possibly can create image-level backups and cloud-native snapshots of Azure VMs to revive whole VMs and their hooked up disks. For extra info, take a look at what’s new in Veeam Backup and Replication and the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure Person Information.

Veeam is a strategic Microsoft accomplice, providing options to assist shield in opposition to ransomware and supply added resilience for patrons on-premises, in Azure and on the edge by permitting customers to retailer their backups in Azure Blob, with assist for immutability, making certain knowledge is protected and compliant with regulatory necessities. We assist all kinds of Azure workloads, and now are offering assist for Premium v2 and Extremely Disk with Veeam Backup for Azure.

—Dave Russell, SVP, Head of Technique at Veeam

Rubrik Safety Cloud assist for Pv2 and Extremely disks

Rubrik Safety Cloud (RSC) now gives backup assist for VMs with Pv2 and Extremely disks. RSC is a complete answer that helps you shield your knowledge, monitor knowledge danger, and get better knowledge and purposes. To be taught extra, see Rubrik Safety Cloud and the documentation.

Rubrik’s prospects perceive the significance of accessing high-performance storage, and Microsoft’s Extremely Disk Premium V2 incremental snapshots Premium SSD v2 and Extremely disks will ship simply that. The combination with Rubrik might be extremely clean, designed to seamlessly safe buyer’s useful knowledge—holding it in protected palms. Kudos to Microsoft for his or her partnership in making knowledge safety a seamless and hassle-free expertise!

—Kesavan Palanichamy, Employees Product Supervisor at Rubrik

Veritas NetBackup Snapshot Supervisor assist for Extremely disks

Veritas has expanded assist of its NetBackup Snapshot Supervisor to incorporate Extremely disks. With Veritas NetBackup, you possibly can streamline the backup and restoration processes of your high-performance workloads utilizing Extremely disk. For extra info, take a look at the NetBackup Snapshot Supervisor for Cloud Set up and Improve Information (web page 24).

Carbonite by OpenText Assist for Pv2 and Extremely Disks

OpenText introduced backup assist for Pv2 and Extremely disk by way of Carbonite Availability, a device to guard your knowledge from incidents. With Carbonite Availability, you possibly can rapidly restore to a identified time limit. To be taught extra, take a look at OpenText’s weblog submit on The Value of Threat.

OpenText is dedicated to making sure prospects can benefit from newest developments on Azure Disk Storage for his or her enterprise knowledge backup and restoration wants. Now, with the GA of incremental snapshots assist for Premium SSD v2 and Extremely Disk and by the ability of OpenText Migrate and OpenText Availability, prospects can add restoration right into a point-in-time snapshot for any supported Extremely Disk or Premium SSD v2. This expanded performance empowers prospects to effectively restore to a identified level, eliminating downtime and decreasing prices related to ransomware assaults!

—Jody Guffey, Vice President, Americas Gross sales at OpenText Cybersecurity

New security measures for Pv2 and Extremely disks

Along with backup and restoration enhancements, we’re delighted to share new security measures out there for Pv2 and Extremely disks. These options embrace encryption in your knowledge on the VM host and enhanced safety protections in your VMs utilizing Pv2 and Extremely disk.

Common availability: Encryption at host for Pv2 and Extremely disks

Encryption at host now helps Pv2 and Extremely disks. Whenever you allow encryption at host, encryption begins on the VM host itself, the Azure server the place your VM is allotted. The info is encrypted on the VM host and flows encrypted to the storage service. As well as, this characteristic will be certain that native storage on the VM host is encrypted at relaxation, which incorporates momentary storage on the VM in addition to the host cache used with Premium SSD, Normal SSD, and Normal HDD disks. To be taught extra, learn the documentation.

Common availability: Trusted launch VM assist for Pv2 and Extremely disks

Azure Trusted VM Launch now helps VMs with Pv2 and Extremely disks. It enhances the safety of Azure Era 2 VMs by a foundational compute safety layer to guard VMs in opposition to superior and chronic assault strategies reminiscent of bootkits and rootkits. For instance, Trusted Launch gives safe boot by making certain that VM boots use solely software program trusted by the Unique Tools Producer. To be taught extra, learn the documentation.

Get began with Pv2 and Extremely disks

With added backup assist and safety protections, our subsequent technology of Azure disk storage is extra prepared than ever in your most demanding and mission-critical workloads. To get began with Pv2 and Extremely disks, take a look at easy methods to deploy a Premium SSD v2 and easy methods to deploy an Extremely disk.