Storage

When running Storage Spaces Direct in Cloud environments where disk resources can be provisioned at a moments notice with any capacity, it can be the norm that disks will be (hot) added from a cluster to account for growing capacity or performance needs.

Azure File Sync lets you tier data from on-premises systems to a cloud share based on Azure File. Local nodes can act as hot-caches, caching data based on access and modification patterns. Azure File Sync supports multi-master sync so that you can deploy those caches to multiple offices and replicate data across your organization.

If you are archiving diagnostic logs or activity logs to a storage account through Azure Monitor be aware that on Nov 1, 2018 there will be a breaking change in the format.

When using Azure Backup to manage (geo-)distributed backups across a company you may find that the Azure Backup Reports with Power BI is limited to a single storage account. Unfortunately the reporting telemetry coming from Azure Backup needs to be written to a storage account that is in the same region as the Recovery Services Vault.