Windows Azure Drive - February 2010v2英文版本.pdf

WINDOWS AZURE DRIVE Brad Calder and Andrew Edwards February 2010 Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Windows Azure Drive Overview 2 3 Windows Azure Page Blob as a Drive 3 4 Selecting the Guest OS 3 5 Windows Azure Drive Local On-Disk Cache 4 5.1 Windows Azure VM Size 4 5.2 Role Local Resource 4 5.3 Cache Directory 4 5.4 Per Drive Cache 5 6 Using the Windows Azure Drive in an Azure Application 5 6.1 Credentials to Access the Page Blob as a Drive 7 6.1.1 Account and Key 7 6.1.2 Shared Access Signatures 8 6.2 Creating and Mounting a Drive Example 8 7 How the Windows Azure Drive Works 9 8 Usage Patterns and Best Practices 9 8.1 Application Drive Allocation, Failover, and Upgrade 9 8.1.1 Drive Allocation 10 8.1.2 Failover 10 8.1.3 Upgrade 11 8.2 Snapshotting a Drive and Using Snapshots 11 8.3 NTFS Semantics and ChkDsk 12 8.4 Using Windows Azure Drive within a Geo-Location 12 8.5 Known Issues 12 8.6 Troubleshooting 13 9 Summary 13 1 Introduction Windows Azure is the foundation of Microsoft’s Cloud Platform. It is the “Operating System for the Cloud” that provides essential building blocks for application developers to write scalable and highly available services. Windows Azure provides:  Virtualized Computation  Scalable Storage  Automated Management 1  Rich Developer SDK Windows Azure Storage allows application developers to store their data in the cloud, so the application can access its data from anywhere at any time, store any amount of data for any length of time, and be confident that