Experience on-premises SAN capabilities in the cloud

Azure Elastic SAN is a cloud-native service that offers a scalable, cost-effective, high-performance, and comprehensive storage solution for a range of compute options. Get the same simplified management experience in the cloud as with your on-premises storage area network (SAN). Gain higher resiliency and minimize downtime with rapid provisioning.

• Scalability up to millions of IOPS (input/output operations per second), double-digit GBps, and single-digit millisecond latencies
• Data migration with a single block storage solution that supports the iSCSI remote protocol
• Unified storage provisioning and multiple volume management through grouping and policy enforcement just like your on-premises SAN
• Management of replication and failover with zone redundant storage (ZRS)

Features

• **Simplify management across various compute options: **Easily provision, manage, and scale workloads on Elastic SAN with the same end-to-end experience and resource hierarchy as on-premises SAN solutions. Extend storage support beyond Azure Virtual Machines to include Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure VMware Solution (in preview), cloud-native applications, and edge appliances through industry standard interface iSCSI protocols. Set consistent service management configurations at the volume group.
• **Scale performance cost-effectively: **Migrate your data to Elastic SAN to achieve the performance of most on-premises SAN environments with the advantages of an efficient cloud-native solution. Deliver millions of IOPS, double-digit GBps throughput, and single-digit millisecond latency to your mission-critical applications. Buy storage capacity and provisioned performance in bulk at a low cost with the flexibility to share the provisioned performance target across multiple volumes.
• **Minimize downtime and maintain business continuity: **Avoid costly downtime with zone redundant storage (ZRS) and local redundant storage (LRS) to protect business-critical data and applications that require high availability. Use ZRS for high levels of resiliency without having to set up multiple deployments of SAN arrays and a replication policy. Get synchronous replication across three zones in a region and safeguard your data in the event of a zone failure.
• **Get started with Azure Elastic SAN: **Gain access to an end-to-end experience like your on-premises SAN and breakthrough innovation with Azure Elastic SAN. See how to easily provision, manage, and scale business-critical workloads on Elastic SAN. Learn in-depth about the performance and storage capacity required to scale terabytes of data cost-effectively.