Public Preview: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares
We’re excited to announce Azure Files geo-redundancy for large file shares is now in public preview for standard SMB file shares.
Azure Files has supported large file shares for several years, which not only provides file share capacity up to 100TiB but improved IO operations per second (IOPS) and throughput as well. Large file shares are widely adopted by customers using locally redundant storage (LRS) and zone-redundant storage (ZRS) but has not been available for geo-redundant storage (GRS) and geo-zone redundant storage (GZRS) until now.
Geo-redundancy is critical for meeting various compliance and regulatory requirements. Geo-redundant storage asynchronously replicates to a secondary region and if the primary region becomes unavailable, you can initiate a failover to the secondary region.
Choosing between performance and scale or geo-redundancy is no longer necessary! You can now use geo-redundancy and enable large file shares on new and existing storage accounts to significantly increase your standard file share capacity and performance limits while benefiting from geo-redundancy:
|
Azure Files |
Previous limits |
Large file share limits |
|
Capacity per share |
5 TiB |
100 TiB (20x increase) |
|
Max IOPS per share |
1,000 IOPS |
20,000 IOPS (20x increase) |
|
Max throughput per share |
Up to 60 MiB/s |
Up to 300 MiB/s (5x increase) |
For more information on Azure storage redundancy and choosing what’s right for you, see Azure Storage redundancy.
Pricing and availability
Pricing is based on the standard file share tier and redundancy option configured for the storage account. To learn more, see Azure Files Pricing.
The public preview is currently available in 32 regions and we will be expanding to all regions. To view the latest information, see regional availability.
Getting started
Enabling geo-redundancy for new and existing standard large file shares is easy and can be accomplished in a few steps:
- Register for the preview using the portal or PowerShell.
- Enable geo-redundancy and large file shares for your standard SMB file shares.
More Information
To learn more, see the Azure Files geo-redundancy for large file shares preview documentation.
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