Enable Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage

Venkata Yeleswarapu 0 Reputation points
2024-02-12T13:09:02.2033333+00:00

Question: We want to take advantage of the feature “Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage” and have additional provisioned IOPS and throughput to our current premium SSD disks. I see this feature/property to be in public preview for more than a year now and wanted check and see if we can implement this for our soon to be production workload or suggestion is not to implement until GA ? Please let me know any more information is needed with regard to this question.

Azure Disk Storage
Azure Disk Storage
A high-performance, durable block storage designed to be used with Azure Virtual Machines and Azure VMware Solution.
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  1. Vinodh247 12,741 Reputation points
    2024-02-13T14:12:45.5333333+00:00

    Hi Venkata Yeleswarapu,

    Thanks for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A.

    Performance Plus for azure disk storage is a new feature that enhances the iops and throughput performance of Standard HDD, Standard SSD, and Premium SSD disks that are sized 1TB or higher. It is offered for free and is available to use through deployments on Azure CLI and PowerShell.

      The advantage of this feature is that it improves the experience for workloads that require high iops and throughput, such as database and transactional workloads. By enabling Performance Plus, the iops and throughput limits for an eligible disk increase to the higher maximum limits. For ex, a premium ssd disk of size 1TB can have up to 20,000 IOPS and 900 mbps of throughput with Performance Plus, compared to 5,000 IOPS and 200 Mbps without Performance Plus.  

    Additional provisioned IOPS and throughput are optional features that allow you to increase the performance of Premium SSD disks beyond the default limits, based on your disk size. You can specify the exact iops and throughput values that you need for your disk, up to 160k iops and 2k mbps per disk. You pay for the provisioned perf on a per disk basis.

      The advantage of additional provisioned iops and throughput is that they provide more flexibility and control over the performance of your Premium SSD disks, especially for workloads that have consistent and predictable performance requirements. You can optimize the performance and cost of your disks by choosing the exact values that match your needs.

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  2. Venkata Yeleswarapu 0 Reputation points
    2024-02-14T03:49:25.8166667+00:00

    Thanks but the question is to know if this is still in preview or GA ?