![]() ![]() The deployment of our Gen 2 SKU, along with software improvements, provides significant bandwidth between compute and storage using a flat network topology. The changes to new storage hardware and to a high bandwidth network comprise the significant improvements in our second generation storage (Gen 2), when compared to our first generation (Gen 1) hardware, as outlined below: ![]() This resulted in FNS, where the Windows Azure Networking team (under Albert Greenberg) along with the Windows Azure Storage, Fabric and OS teams made and deployed several hardware and software networking improvements. To make this work for the scenarios we need to address, a quantum leap in network scale and throughput was required. Additionally, the new network design enables scenarios such as MapReduce and HPC that can require significant bandwidth between compute and storage.įrom the start of Windows Azure, we decided to separate customer VM-based computation from storage, allowing each of them to scale independently, making it easier to provide multi-tenancy, and making it easier to provide isolation. This new network design and resulting bandwidth improvements allows us to support Windows Azure Virtual Machines, where we store VM persistent disks as durable network attached blobs in Windows Azure Storage. We used a flat network design in order to provide very high bandwidth network connectivity for storage clients. ‡ Brad Calder CalderBrad, pictured below) and Aaron Ogus of the Windows Azure Storage Team described Windows Azure’s Flat Network Storage and 2012 Scalability Targets in an post:Įarlier this year, we deployed a flat network for Windows Azure across all of our datacenters to create Flat Network Storage (FNS) for Windows Azure Storage. Other Cloud Computing Platforms and ServicesĪzure Blob, Drive, Table, Queue, Hadoop and Media Services.Windows Azure Platform Appliance (WAPA), Hyper-V and Private/Hybrid Clouds.Windows Azure Infrastructure and DevOps.Visual Studio LightSwitch and Entity Framework v4+.Live Windows Azure Apps, APIs, Tools and Test Harnesses.Windows Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Web Sites, Connect, RDP and CDN.Windows Azure Service Bus, Caching, Access & Identity Control, Active Directory, and Workflow.Marketplace DataMarket, Cloud Numerics, Big Data and OData.Windows Azure SQL Database, Federations and Reporting, Mobile Services.Windows Azure Blob, Drive, Table, Queue, Hadoop and Media Services.Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Tip: Copy bullet(s) or dagger(s), press Ctrl+f, paste it/them to the Find textbox and click Next to locate updated articles: A compendium of Windows Azure, Service Bus, EAI & EDI,Access Control, Connect, SQL Azure Database, and other cloud-computing articles. ![]()
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