Create a Storage Account

Lab Details

 In this Lab walkthrough, you will create a storage account and know about the interesting
things that are required to know while creating a storage account
 Duration: 30 Minutes

Introduction
 An Azure storage account contains all of your Azure Storage data objects like blobs, file
shares, queues, tables, and disks. 
 The name of the storage account should be unique, the reason is, We access anything
from the storage account via HTTP or HTTPS, for that you should have a unique URL
o Ex: If you name the storage account as whizlabs1857 and the container blob
name as demo. The name of the file that you have uploaded in the blob
container is demo1.txt
o The URL allocated to access that particular file would be
 https://whizlabs1857.blob.core.windows.net/demo/demo1.txt

Tasks:
1. Login to Azure Portal
2. Understand the performance, redundancy, and access tiers you need to choose
3. Filling in the details of the storage account
4. Completion of Creating the Storage Account

Lab Steps:

Task 1: Log in to Azure Portal

1. If you have logged into any other Azure Account from previous labs or your own account,
please log out of it from https://portal.azure.com.

2. Click on the   button.

3. Once the lab creation process is completed, you can see your username and password.
4. Open a browser tab in incognito mode. Go to the Azure portal by clicking on

the  button or by using the URL https://portal.azure.com in incognito

mode.
o Note: It is recommended to use incognito mode to avoid Azure portal cache-
related issues.
5. If it automatically logs into any other azure account, please log out of it and clear the
cache.
6. Sign in with your given username and password.
 7. If login is not working. Click and End Lab and start the lab again
 

Task 2: Understand the performance, redundancy, and access tiers

Performance:-
There are many kinds of storage accounts available in Azure Storage. Each type has its own set
of features and pricing structure. Before you create a storage account, think about these
distinctions to figure out which kind of account is ideal for your needs.

Reference:- Microsoft Docs

Premium block blobs, Premium file shares, and premium page blobs will be available when you
choose Premium Performance while creating the storage account
Redundancy
There are different types of replications that you can perform in Azure. They are:-
LRS:- In the main region, locally redundant storage (LRS) duplicates your data three times inside
a single data center. This kind of redundancy is useful for Rack Failures within the data center
ZRS:- Your Azure Storage data is replicated synchronously across three Azure availability zones
in the main region using zone-redundant storage (ZRS). Each availability zone is a physical
location with its own power, cooling, and networking infrastructure. This kind of redundancy is
useful for data center failures
GRS:- Using LRS, geo-redundant storage (GRS) replicates your data three times synchronously
inside a single physical location in the primary region. It then asynchronously replicates your data
to a single physical place in a secondary area hundreds of kilometers distant from the original
region. This kind of is useful for regional failures 
GZRS:- GZRS (geo-zone-redundant storage) combines the high availability offered by
redundancy across availability zones with the protection afforded by geo-replication against
regional failures. Data in a GZRS storage account is duplicated to a secondary geographic area
for disaster recovery and is replicated across three Azure availability zones in the original region.
If an availability zone becomes inaccessible or unrecoverable, you may still read and write data
using a GZRS storage account.
The table below describes when to use what kind of replications
Reference:- Microsoft Docs

Access Tiers:- 
Different access levels in Azure storage enable you to store blob object data in the most cost-
effective way possible. Tiers of access are available, including:
Hot - Designed for storing data that is regularly accessed.
Cool - Designed to store data that is viewed rarely and kept for at least 30 days.
There is one more tier called the archive tier.
We can change the access tier to archive from Hot/Cold. We can’t mention the storage account
blob as an archive directly while creating the storage account 
 

Task 3: Filling in the details of Basic and Advanced tabs of the storage
account
1. Navigate to the Create a Resource page by clicking on the menu on the left 

2. Search for the storage account and click on the storage account blade
3. Now click on the create button
Now in the Basic Tab
Fill in the details like this
1. Subscription: Leave it to the default selected.
2. Resource Group: Choose Resource Group Name provided in dropdown. 
Ex: resourcegroup_123456
3. Storage account name: Any Unique name you can think of
         Ex: whizlabs201345
4. Region: Choose Region (US) East US
5. Performance:- Standard
6. Redundancy:- LRS
 
In the Advanced Tab, Networking Tab, and Data Protection Tab, You can leave everything as it
is 
Click on review + create
 

Task 4: Completion of creation of storage account

1. If you filled in the details correctly, You should be able to see something called Validation
passed 
2. Click on create button 
3. After clicking on the create the deployment would have started 
4. And you will be redirected to the deployments page similar to the image below
 5. After waiting for some time the storage account will be
created 

6. Click on go to Resource, You will be directed to the Storage account that you have
created

This is how you create a storage account in azure 

 

Deleting the Resources

Deleting the resources which are not useful is an important thing and a best practice in azure
1. Go to the all resources button on the left-hand side panel
2. And filter the resources by the resource group you have created your resources in
3. Select all the resources
4. Click on the delete button, This will delete all the resources that you have created
 

Completion and Conclusions

1. You have successfully logged into Azure Portal.
 2. You have successfully Understood the main things regarding the creation of a storage
account such as replication, Performance, and the access type
3. You have configured and created the storage account
 

End Lab
1. You have successfully completed this lab.
2. Click on Logout in Azure Portal by clicking on the logout button in the top right corner
inside Azure Profile.

3. Click on   once you have completed the Lab.