How to specify a suitable volume type for the Cloud Agent on Azure

How to specify a suitable volume type for the Cloud Agent on Azure

Task

A  particular volume type has to be selected for the Cloud Agent (CA) in order to provide seamless performance on Azure cloud.

Solution

A volume type is one of the additional parameters that can be defined for the CA when configuring a cloud.

The default Cloud Agent flavor (VM size) is  Standard_B2s. it can be changed in the Additional parameters using '{"cloud_agent_flavor": "<name>"}'



There is a default cloud created during the initial configuration of the solution, but it’s also possible to create additional clouds and assign them to customers afterwards from the Acura Control Panel itself. To do so, click on the “Manage Clouds” button on the Partner page and then “Add”. You will be prompted to input the same range of parameters as in Step 1 of the Hystax Setup Wizard.













Copy the following value (including the quotation marks) into the "Additional parameters" field:

{"cloud_agent_volume_type": "Premium_LRS"}

The {"cloud_agent_volume_type": "Premium SSD"} parameter is only available for specific flavors which have the letter "S" in their name.

If you would like to learn more about different storage types on Azure, please refer to the official Microsoft documentation.