Azure Elastic SAN for Azure VMware Solution: now Generally Available

Have you been looking to expand your storage in Azure VMware Solution (AVS) but don’t want the additional compute power and associated costs of adding more nodes? Are you looking for a cost-effective alternative storage solution that is easy to set up and manage? If so, you’ll be excited to learn about the general availability of Azure Elastic SAN for AVS, launching today!

Scale out storage using Azure Elastic SAN

Azure Elastic SAN It is the latest addition to Azure’s block storage family and is unique in part because of its support for remote block storage (iSCSI) and its cost-effective provisioning model for large-scale deployments. because Azure VMware Solutions With support for iSCSI data store attachments as a persistent storage option, you can use Azure Elastic SAN volumes to create virtual machine file system (VMFS) data stores and attach them to the cluster of your choice. VMFS data stores powered by Azure Elastic SAN allow you to scale out storage across Azure-deployed, fully managed, and VMware-certified storage area networks instead of scaling clusters.

With these integrations, we add important tools for optimizing your workloads, whether they are large databases requiring high storage capacity or performance-intensive, mission-critical applications. Not all applications require the performance of directly attached storage, and many workloads, such as backup and disaster recovery use cases or other capacity-intensive workloads, can benefit from more cost-effective scalable storage solutions. Azure Elastic SAN can be deployed and connected directly from the Azure portal, and at $0.06-0.08 per GiB per month (based on current pricing in US-East), it is the lowest cost per GiB storage option for AVS while still providing scalable performance. Various use cases.

How to optimize price/performance with Azure Elastic SAN

When you set up an Elastic SAN, you create a pool of resources that are shared between “volumes” within the SAN. Each of these volumes can be exposed as a data store to the AVS SDDC. Elastic SAN volumes share the performance provisioned at the SAN level, but individual volumes have their own performance limits (see table below). By design, individual volume limits are high to accommodate bursts of traffic for specific volumes. If you need more than 80,000 IOPS, you can spread the workload across multiple volumes and place them on different data stores.

Resource pools in Elastic SAN consist of 1 TiB units, namely “base units” and “capacity dedicated units”. Basic devices provide both storage capacity and performance, while capacity-only devices provide only storage capacity. In practice, you can start adding base units until you reach the desired level of performance and then add additional capacity-only units if your storage capacity requirements are not yet met. Both devices offer locally (LRS) or zone (ZRS) redundant storage and are priced as follows:

*Based on prices in the East US region as of October 17, 2024. always our pricing page Check out the latest details.

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Azure Elastic SAN for AVS gives you access to an Azure-deployed, fully managed, VMware-certified storage area network (SAN) with built-in redundancy that is massively scalable, easy to manage, and has a low TCO. If you are looking for a native Azure Storage environment or want to scale storage capacity independently of performance to get the lowest TCO and highest scale. Get started with Azure Elastic SAN for AVS today!