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Understand SQL Server in an Azure virtual


machine
4 minutes

A SQL Server running in an Azure virtual machine (IaaS) is equivalent to an on-premises SQL Server. You will notice that
several features described for SQL Server on Azure virtual machine are applicable to all your on-premises SQL Servers.

Many applications will require SQL Server running on a virtual machine. The reasons include:

General application support and incompatibility - For applications requiring an older version of SQL Server for
vendor support. In addition, some application services may have a requirement to be installed with the database
instance in a manner that is not compatible with a PaaS offering.

Use of other SQL Server Services - In order to maximize licensing, many users choose to run SQL Server Analysis
Services (SSAS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), and/or SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) on the same
machine as the database engine.

Versions of SQL Server available


Microsoft keeps images of all supported versions of SQL Server available in Azure Marketplace. If you have a need for an
older version, that is covered by an extended support contract, you must install your own SQL Server binaries.

Backup solutions
In recent releases of SQL Server, Microsoft has introduced several features to support running SQL Server in an Azure
virtual machine. We are going to focus on two key backup features:

Back up to URL
Azure Backup

Back up to URL allows you to use standard backup syntax to back up your databases to Azure Blob Storage service, while
Azure Backup for SQL Server Virtual Machines offers a complete enterprise backup solution that automatically handles
your backups across your infrastructure.

Deployment options
All resources in Azure share a common provider known as Azure Resource Manager that acts as a management, and
deployment service for cloud services. While there are numerous ways to deploy Azure resources, ultimately, they all end
up going into JSON documents known as Azure Resource Manager template, which is one of the deployment options for
Azure resources.
The main difference between these processes is that Azure Resource Manager templates are a declarative deployment
approach that describes the desired structure and state of the resources to be deployed, whereas the other methods can
all be described as imperative, which uses procedural models to explicitly specify a process to be executed. In large-scale
deployments, the declarative approach is better and should be followed.

Overview of Azure storage


Azure offers a fully redundant object-based storage model, and there are a few things to be aware of in designing and
deploying Virtual Machines architecture. In terms of virtual machines, there are four types of storage you can use:

Standard
Standard SSD
Premium SSD
Ultra Disk

For production SQL Server data and transaction log files, you should only use Premium SSD storage and Ultra Disk. With
premium storage, you will see latencies in the range of 5-10 ms on a properly configured system. Alternatively, with Ultra
Disk you may have sub millisecond latency but will likely see 1-2 ms workloads in the real world. You can use Standard
storage for your database backups, as the performance is adequate for most backup and restore workloads.

High availability in Azure


The Azure platform is designed to be fault tolerant and provides quickly recovery from service disruptions and transient
errors. In fact, many organizations see higher levels of availability in single virtual machines deployments than they
previously experienced in their on-premises environments. Microsoft guarantees uptime of at least 99.9% for single
instance Azure virtual machine, when using Premium SSD or Ultra Disk for all disks.

Azure offers several features to support high availability including availability sets, availability zones, and load-balancing
techniques that provide high availability by distributing incoming traffic among Virtual Machines.

Next unit: Design Azure SQL Database for cloud-native applications

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