Like you plan the network in your data center or company, you need to do it in Azure also. Many services in Azure are based on storage. Therefore, it has to be planned well.

You should consider scalability, durability, and high availability depending on the scenario and target you try to achieve.

Within this chapter, Azure Storage management is discussed. The key takeaways are how and when to implement and integrate the different Azure Storage types. The following sections and their various options are touched:

• Storage accounts
• Replication and redundancy
• Azure Storage services:
  • Blob
  • Table
  • Queue
  • File
• Exploring Azure Storage with Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
• Premium Storage accounts
• Pricing

This chapter does not handle deep backup, Azure site recovery, or StorSimple sections. We will set up some basic storage configurations in this chapter.