{"id":14900,"date":"2020-01-01T15:51:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T15:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/?p=14900"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:02:37","slug":"azure-storage-types-for-windows-virtual-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/azure-storage-types-for-windows-virtual-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Storage types for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Azure Storage offers cloud storage solution by Microsoft and is available for Windows Virtual Desktop (hosted desktop as a service)<\/a> solution. It is scalable, durable, limitless and optimized for storing structured and unstructured (text and multimedia) data; available in the pay-as-you-go model. The useful features make Azure Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD )<\/a> storage very suitable for your business; irrespective of whether you need only a few hundred GBs or trillions, you can scale up\/down as per your need using Windows or Linux OS. Here\u2019s a brief on the Azure WVD storage system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Types\nof Storage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Broadly\ncoming under two types Azure\nstorage account comes under i)<\/strong> Standard Storage<\/strong> and\nii) Premium Storage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A)<\/strong> Standard\nStorage- <\/strong>offers 4 versions of storage a) Blob b) Table c) Queue and d)\nFile storage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B)\nPremium Storage- <\/strong>offers Azure Virtual Machine (VM) disks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A)\nStandard Storage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a)\nBlob Storage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure Blob storage typically comes in\nthree different types – a) Block b) Append and c) Page blobs. You can store\ndata like videos, music files, image files, message, log and metadata and your\nbackups.  You must specify your blob type while creating a blob. Because\nonce created, its type will remain fixed. You can only update the blob\nfollowing the available options unique to that blob type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

i)\nBlock blobs <\/strong>are used for document, image, video files and allows insertion,\nreplacement and deletion of blocks.Blob storage can contain up to\n50,000 blocks. Each blob gets identified by its ID and can be of different\nsizes of reaching a maximum of 100MB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ii) Append\nblobs <\/strong>are blocks that are optimized for appends i.e. if you modify\nblocks will be added at the end of your Append blob. Very useful for situations\nthat require adding data to the existing blob without modifying the existing\nones. You cannot update or delete the existing blocks and neither these have\nblock IDs. Each block can be of a maximum of 4MB and an append blob can have up\nto 50,000 blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

iii) Page\nblobs <\/strong>(collection of 512-byte pages hence the name)are\noptimized for random read\/write operations. You need to specify your page blob\nsize with a maximum size of 8TB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

b)\nTable Storage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure storage table allows you to store\nenormous structured data. It uses NoSQL database and is extremely suitable for\nstoring non-relational, structured data with on-demand scalability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

c)\nQueue Storage <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allows\nyou to store substantial messages that you can access from across the globe via\ncalls using HyperText Transfer Protocol (or HTTP- that allows online\ncommunication and data transfer from one machine to another. A message can be\nup to 64 KB and queue storage can include millions of messages within the limit\nof a storage account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

d)\nFile Storage <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure file storage offers you fully\nmanaged file sharing in the cloud using the Server Message Block 3.0 (SMB) protocol.\nYou can move your applications including on-premise apps to the cloud from\nanywhere in the world, integrate the latest apps with the existing ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B)\nPremium Storage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ndifference between the Standard and Premium storage is that the latter uses the\nlatest Solid-State Drive (SSD) for the Azure VMs whereas the former stores data\non Hard Disk Drives (HDD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Premium\nStorage brings consistent high input-output performance with low latency and\nuseful for Online Transactional Processing, Big Data and Data Warehousing\nworkloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At\npresent this storage is available for Page Blobs and Data Disks on VMs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Features\nlike scalability, security, reliability and easy accessibility (using latest\ntechnology like HTTP) make Azure Storage popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No\nhassle for data backup and maintenance or security as these are taken care of\nby Microsoft Azure. Through replication process, Azure maintains different data\ncopies at various geo-locations so that your data remains safe against any\nnatural disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apps4Rent is a Microsoft Gold partner offering managed Azure solutions. Please feel free to reach us any time 1-646-506-9354 <\/em>or come for a chat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Azure Storage offers cloud storage solution by Microsoft and is available for Windows Virtual Desktop (hosted desktop as a service) solution. It is scalable, durable, limitless and optimized for storing structured and unstructured (text and multimedia) data; available in the pay-as-you-go model. The useful features make Azure Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD ) storage very suitable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows-virtual-desktop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16985,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions\/16985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}