Azure NetApp Files

Azure Cycle Cloud and Azure NetApp Files

What is Azure Cycle Cloud?

•Azure CycleCloud is a tool for creating, managing, operating, and optimising HPC & Big Compute clusters in Azure.

•Azure CycleCloud provides alerting, monitoring, and automatically scales HPC infrastructure to ensure your jobs run efficiently at any scale

•It helps in orchestrating jobs, data and cloud workflows

•Customise and optimise clusters through advanced policy and governance features, including cost controls, Active Directory integration, monitoring and reporting.

What is Azure NetApp Files?

Azure NetApp Files (ANF) makes it easy for enterprise line-of-business (LOB) and storage professionals to migrate and run complex, file-based applications with no code change. Azure NetApp Files is widely used as the underlying shared file-storage service in various scenarios. These include migration (lift and shift) of POSIX-compliant Linux and Windows applications, SAP HANA, databases, high-performance compute (HPC) infrastructure and apps, and enterprise web applications.
ANF provides the widest choice of file protocols (NFSv3, NFSv4.1, SMB3) in the public cloud. It provides on-premises class performance with multiple tiers (Ultra, Premium, Standard) along with most advanced enterprise data management (Snapshots, Clones, Replication)

HPC Storage decision tree

Steps to auto-mount ANF volumes on your Azure Cycle Cloud Execute Clusters:

Stage 1:

Stage 2:

Stage 3:

Step by step process explained in the below video –

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