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A company is planning to migrate a mission-critical, transaction-heavy online transaction processing (OLTP) database to an Azure Virtual Machine.
The database workload requires extreme performance with up to several hundred thousand IOPS, high throughput in gigabytes per second, and consistently sub-millisecond disk latency.
Which Azure managed disk type should the company choose for this workload?
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Azure Ultra Disk is Azure's highest-performing managed disk storage option, engineered specifically for top-tier, I/O-intensive workloads running on Azure Virtual Machines.
Ultra Disk is designed for the most demanding enterprise workloads, providing:
While Premium SSD provides high performance for standard production systems, it cannot reach the hundreds of thousands of IOPS or 10,000 MB/s throughput limits offered by Ultra Disk. This makes Ultra Disk the ideal and necessary choice for extreme database workloads.