UniData Azure Deployment

Looking for UniData expertise in deploying and optimizing storage performance in Azure.  I have not found any official Rocket technical documentation to support.

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Ralpha Labarta
CTO
Engage PEO
St. Petersburg FL US
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We are heading down the same path. I will be keeping an eye on this thread.

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L Iveblues
Retired
Rocket Forum Shared Account
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Looking for UniData expertise in deploying and optimizing storage performance in Azure.  I have not found any official Rocket technical documentation to support.

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Ralpha Labarta
CTO
Engage PEO
St. Petersburg FL US
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I can offer general guidelines if of help?

1. Inside the VM it's the same as a standalone server.
2. Optimise the disk subsystem for a large volume of small random accessed data  rather than a small volume of large streamed data.
3. Benchmark and manage the cost of the required IOPS

See:

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/storage/disks/ - I recommend looking under NoSQL databases as a start,
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/virtual-machines/disks-performance
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/virtual-machines/disks-types

You don't mention whether a 'green screen', SB/XA or RESTful-service based application - each has its own connectivity and persistence requirments.
And for general VM usage - whoever the supplier:

• Check the backup and failover strategies
• If taking snapshots, please pause the database for the snapshot duration to ensure database integrity,
• Consider using RFS for resilience and warmstart recovery in the event  of  a forced switchover to another zone. Ideally with transaction semantics,

Regards

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John Jenkins
Thame, Oxfordshire
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We are heading down the same path. I will be keeping an eye on this thread.

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L Iveblues
Retired
Rocket Forum Shared Account
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We are also looking at this, we run Unidata with SB+ and SBClient in GUI mode.

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Barry Green
Director
CAPITOL BUSINESS SERVICES
Mawson Lakes SA AU
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We are also looking at this, we run Unidata with SB+ and SBClient in GUI mode.

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Barry Green
Director
CAPITOL BUSINESS SERVICES
Mawson Lakes SA AU
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Barry,

In both CUI and GUI mode, SB_ is effectively a 'green screen' (i.e. telnet-based) application.  You might want to consider running SBClient in a  Terminal Server environment and using low cost PCs to access the TS environment. Optionally the TS could be cloud-based as well, though please remember to benchmark and factor in the cloud residency, failover strategy and IOPS of the TS itself if considering this option,

Also - don't forget to secure and encrypt your cloud server access, you would be amazed how many cloud-based servers have been left without basic protections.

Regards

JJ



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John Jenkins
Thame, Oxfordshire
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I can offer general guidelines if of help?

1. Inside the VM it's the same as a standalone server.
2. Optimise the disk subsystem for a large volume of small random accessed data  rather than a small volume of large streamed data.
3. Benchmark and manage the cost of the required IOPS

See:

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/storage/disks/ - I recommend looking under NoSQL databases as a start,
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/virtual-machines/disks-performance
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/virtual-machines/disks-types

You don't mention whether a 'green screen', SB/XA or RESTful-service based application - each has its own connectivity and persistence requirments.
And for general VM usage - whoever the supplier:

• Check the backup and failover strategies
• If taking snapshots, please pause the database for the snapshot duration to ensure database integrity,
• Consider using RFS for resilience and warmstart recovery in the event  of  a forced switchover to another zone. Ideally with transaction semantics,

Regards

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John Jenkins
Thame, Oxfordshire
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For those going down the same road, the most challenging element has been performance of the storage.  For our application deployment on Azure, only Ultra appears to offer a viable solution.

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Ralpha Labarta
CTO
Engage PEO
St. Petersburg FL US
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