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  2. Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Deployment Guide Using Terraform for Microsoft Azure
  3. Prerequisites for setting up Azure environment
  4. For setting up storage account for Cloud Scale deployment
Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Deployment Guide Using Terraform for Microsoft Azure

For setting up storage account for Cloud Scale deployment

When using the existing storage account for Cloud Scale deployment, ensure that the following steps are performed before the execution of terraform scripts:

  • Select Azure Files as the primary service.

  • Select Performance as Premium.

  • Select Redundancy as LRS (Locally-Redundant Storage).

  • To provide private access to storage account, integrate with private DNS zone (privatelink.core.windows.net).

  • Virtual Network link must be created in Virtual Network Links section with VNet in privatelink.core.windows.net private DNS zone.

    Select Virtual Network where you are creating AKS Cluster. This is required for Cloud Scale pods to point NFS shares created in Storage Account.

  • Ensure that you disable Secure Transfer required.

When using the existing storage account for Cloud Scale deployment, following parameters are required:

  • use_existing_storage_acc

  • storage_acc_id

  • storage_acc_rg_name

  • aks_private_dns_zone_id

For more information on the above parameters, refer to the following section:

See Parameters for base stage .

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