We are excited to stock the latest advancements successful Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra disks, the adjacent procreation of Azure disk storage. We person enhanced the backup and catastrophe betterment acquisition for Pv2 and Ultra disks to assistance you support your workloads with ease. In addition, we person improved the information measures for Virtual Machines (VMs) equipped with Pv2 and Ultra. Stay tuned arsenic we delve into these breathtaking caller features! 

Pv2 and Ultra disks connection precocious throughput, precocious input/output operations per 2nd (IOPS), and debased latency for scenarios ranging from input/output (IO)-intensive workloads similar SAP High-performance Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA) to wide intent applications crossed Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), SQL, and NoSQL databases. Pv2 features an unparalleled equilibrium of terms and performance—a 23% price-performance betterment implicit the competing unreality according to a 2023 GigaOm report—and Ultra provides apical show with debased sub-millisecond latency.

Incremental snapshots of Pv2 and Ultra Disks—now mostly available

In August 2023, we made incremental snapshots of Pv2 and Ultra disks generally available. Incremental snapshots are reliable and cost-effective point-in-time backups of your disks that store lone the changes made since the past snapshot.

Switching to Premium SSD v2 disks empowers Teradata with enhanced flexibility to execute optimal retention show successful our customers’ VantageCloud Lake environments. We are thrilled to witnesser the wide availability of incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 disks arsenic it enables swift recreation and betterment to caller disks, starring to a faster and much seamless onboarding acquisition for our customers.

—Neeraj Jain, Director, Cloud Product Management, Teradata

Below are immoderate communal uses for incremental snapshots:

1. Backup: You tin usage incremental snapshots to make a point-in-time backup of Pv2 and Ultra disks to retrieve from accidental information loss.
2. Regional catastrophe recovery: You tin support against determination disasters by copying incremental snapshots of Pv2 and Ultra disks to immoderate portion of your choice.
3. Refresh improvement environments from production: You tin make incremental snapshots of your Pv2 and Ultra disks successful accumulation and usage these to update your improvement oregon grooming environment.

Premium SSD v2 disks and the snapshot diagnostic are integral components powering our Unity DevOps Version Control successful production. As we look ahead, we envision extending these almighty tools to further heighten Unity DevOps. Premium SSD v2 disks empower america to connection a high-performance cloud-based Version Control strategy that seamlessly supports real-time 3D projects connected a planetary scale, utilizing snapshots for scalability and recovery. Thanks to Premium SSD v2, we’ve been capable to finely equilibrium show and cost, delivering exceptional worth to our customers.

—Shanti Gaudreault, VP of Engineering, Unity Cloud Services

Fully managed backup and catastrophe betterment solutions

Beyond incremental snapshots, we’re excited to stock the caller Azure autochthonal afloat managed backup and betterment solutions for Pv2 and Ultra disks. With these solutions, you tin support your VMs and disks successful a azygous click.

General availability: Azure VM Backup with Pv2 and Ultra Disks

Azure VM Backup is simply a afloat managed, simple, and unafraid backup solution designed to safeguard VMs against disasters. A captious constituent of the backup process involves taking application-consistent incremental snapshots of each disks attached to a VM. These snapshots are past securely transferred to the Recovery Services Vault for semipermanent storage.

To guarantee concern continuity and betterment successful the lawsuit of disasters oregon ransomware attacks, you tin alteration Azure Backup connected VMs equipped with Pv2 and Ultra disks. This enhancement further strengthens the robustness of our backup solution for Pv2 and Ultra disks. To larn more, notation to this documentation.

General availability: Azure Disk Backup with Pv2 and Ultra disks

Azure Disk Backup is simply a snapshot lifecycle absorption solution for disks. It automates periodic instauration of incremental snapshots and retains them for nevertheless agelong you specify. It is an agentless solution and doesn’t interaction accumulation exertion performance. You tin present alteration Azure Backup connected idiosyncratic Pv2 and Ultra disks. To get started, notation to this documentation.

Private preview: Azure Site Recovery for Pv2 Disks

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) helps mitigate information nonaccomplishment done continuous replication of the root VM and disks to a secondary region. It minimizes the interaction of outages by reducing exertion betterment time, and it reduces your infrastructure outgo by simplifying deployment and management. ASR for Pv2 disks is present successful backstage preview, you tin capable retired this signifier to motion up.

General availability: Application accordant VM reconstruct points for Pv2 and Ultra Disks

Application accordant VM reconstruct points are cardinal to backup and catastrophe recovery solutions. We execute exertion consistency by utilizing an cause moving successful the VM to seizure representation contented and pending input oregon output (I/O) operations portion besides ensuring the reconstruct constituent is accordant crossed aggregate disks of a VM. You tin present make exertion accordant VM reconstruct points for your VMs with Pv2 and Ultra disks. To get started, notation to this documentation.

Third-party backup and catastrophe betterment support

The backup and betterment acquisition connected Pv2 and Ultra is besides elevated by our third-party partners. Veeam, Rubrik, and OpenText present connection backup enactment for Pv2 and Ultra disks, and Veritas present offers backup enactment for Ultra disk.

Veeam Backup enactment for Pv2 and Ultra disks

Veeam Backup, a information extortion and catastrophe betterment tool, present supports backups for VMs utilizing Pv2 and Ultra disks. With Veeam Backup, you tin make image-level backups and cloud-native snapshots of Azure VMs to reconstruct full VMs and their attached disks. For much information, cheque retired what’s caller successful Veeam Backup and Replication and the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure User Guide.

Veeam is simply a strategical Microsoft partner, offering features to assistance support against ransomware and supply added resilience for customers on-premises, successful Azure and astatine the borderline by allowing users to store their backups successful Azure Blob, with enactment for immutability, ensuring information is harmless and compliant with regulatory requirements. We enactment a wide assortment of Azure workloads, and present are providing enactment for Premium v2 and Ultra Disk with Veeam Backup for Azure.

—Dave Russell, SVP, Head of Strategy astatine Veeam

Rubrik Security Cloud enactment for Pv2 and Ultra disks

Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) present provides backup enactment for VMs with Pv2 and Ultra disks. RSC is simply a broad solution that helps you support your data, show information risk, and retrieve information and applications. To larn more, spot Rubrik Security Cloud and the documentation.

Rubrik’s customers recognize the value of having entree to high-performance storage, and Microsoft’s Ultra Disk Premium V2 incremental snapshots Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks volition present conscionable that. The integration with Rubrik volition beryllium incredibly smooth, designed to seamlessly unafraid customer’s invaluable data—keeping it successful harmless hands. Kudos to Microsoft for their concern successful making information extortion a seamless and hassle-free experience!

—Kesavan Palanichamy, Staff Product Manager astatine Rubrik

Veritas NetBackup Snapshot Manager enactment for Ultra disks

Veritas has expanded enactment of its NetBackup Snapshot Manager to see Ultra disks. With Veritas NetBackup, you tin streamline the backup and betterment processes of your high-performance workloads utilizing Ultra disk. For much information, cheque retired the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud Install and Upgrade Guide (page 24).

Carbonite by OpenText Support for Pv2 and Ultra Disks

OpenText announced backup enactment for Pv2 and Ultra disk done Carbonite Availability, a instrumentality to support your information from incidents. With Carbonite Availability, you tin rapidly reconstruct to a known constituent successful time. To larn more, cheque retired OpenText’s blog station connected The Cost of Risk.

OpenText is committed to ensuring customers tin instrumentality vantage of latest advancements connected Azure Disk Storage for their endeavor information backup and betterment needs. Now, with the GA of incremental snapshots enactment for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk and by the powerfulness of OpenText Migrate and OpenText Availability, customers tin adhd betterment into a point-in-time snapshot for immoderate supported Ultra Disk oregon Premium SSD v2. This expanded functionality empowers customers to efficiently reconstruct to a known point, eliminating downtime and reducing costs associated with ransomware attacks!

—Jody Guffey, Vice President, Americas Sales astatine OpenText Cybersecurity

New information features for Pv2 and Ultra disks

In summation to backup and betterment enhancements, we’re delighted to stock caller information features disposable for Pv2 and Ultra disks. These features see encryption for your information astatine the VM big and enhanced information protections for your VMs utilizing Pv2 and Ultra disk.

General availability: Encryption astatine big for Pv2 and Ultra disks

Encryption astatine big present supports Pv2 and Ultra disks. When you alteration encryption astatine host, encryption starts connected the VM big itself, the Azure server wherever your VM is allocated. The information is encrypted astatine the VM big and flows encrypted to the storage service. In addition, this diagnostic volition guarantee that section retention connected the VM big is encrypted astatine rest, which includes impermanent retention connected the VM arsenic good arsenic the big cache utilized with Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD disks. To larn more, work the documentation.

General availability: Trusted motorboat VM enactment for Pv2 and Ultra disks

Azure Trusted VM Launch present supports VMs with Pv2 and Ultra disks. It enhances the information of Azure Generation 2 VMs by a foundational compute information furniture to support VMs against precocious and persistent onslaught techniques specified arsenic bootkits and rootkits. For example, Trusted Launch provides unafraid footwear by ensuring that VM boots usage lone bundle trusted by the Original Equipment Manufacturer. To larn more, work the documentation.

Get started with Pv2 and Ultra disks

With added backup enactment and information protections, our adjacent procreation of Azure disk retention is much acceptable than ever for your astir demanding and mission-critical workloads. To get started with Pv2 and Ultra disks, cheque retired however to deploy a Premium SSD v2 and however to deploy an Ultra disk.

The station Latest advancements successful Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Azure Managed Disks appeared archetypal connected Microsoft Azure Blog.