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Real World Use Case Confirmation: Azure NetApp Files (ANF) for FSLogix User profiles and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
“Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” – Joe Friday, Dragnet I recently completed a migration of a United States Government agency’s AVD storage (profiles & file shares) from Azure Files Premium to Azure NetApp Files Ultra. The data and
A Quiet Revolution: Azure NetApp Files Cool Data Access at 6 Months
TL,DR (at the end too): Azure NetApp Files should be your default File Share solution in Azure, it is lower cost and high performing that Azure Files Premium. Six months ago, Cool Access was introduced to Azure NetApp Files (ANF), bringing a huge cost-saving impact for ANF customers. Yet, many Azure engineers have yet to
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Move FSLogix User Profiles Without Ruining your Weekend
Moving to Azure NetApp Files for FSLogix Profile storage is surprisingly easy! By supporting multiple SMB paths for these profiles, doing a cut-over to ANF as the SMB path for profiles can happen without impacting users. The path(s) used for FSLogix profile storage is simply a registry value with the SMB path(s) as the value.
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Is Azure NetApp Files Ultra 200% more (or 50% less) than Azure Files Premium?
I’m taking strong poetic license on those “numbers,” but they’re in the ballpark. More like 240% vs 43%. Azure NetApp Files is generally regarded as the high-performing storage platform in Azure. For most of its’ existence, ANF also substantially more expensive than Azure Files and other storage options in Azure. This has changed but it
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ANF with Cool Access Supports FSLogix User Profile Containers
Azure NetApp Files (ANF) offers a cost saving option where unused data blocks can be tiered off to blob storage to reduce costs. It is great for many use cases, but many assume that VDI/AVD user profiles, in the form of FSLogix containers, would not be a good workload. Through detailed testing I’ve been able
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