Best Block Storage Solutions for SAP HANA

Azure Disk Storage is designed to be used with Azure Virtual Machines (in preview), and Azure VMware Solution (in beta). It offers high-performance block storage for mission- and business-critical applications. You can confidently migrate to Azure infrastructure using four storage options: Ultra Disk Storage (Premium SSD), Standard SSD (Standard SSD), and Standard HDD (Standard HDD). This will optimize your workload's performance and costs. Get high performance with sub-millisecond latency for throughput and transaction-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, SQL Server, and Oracle. Use shared disks to run high-availability or clustered applications in the cloud. You will enjoy enterprise-grade durability and a 0% annual failure rate. Ultra Disk Storage allows you to meet demand without causing performance disruptions. Protect your data with Microsoft-managed keys, or your own, encryption.

Excelero delivers low-latency distributed block storage for web-scale applications. NVMesh supports shared NVMe across any network. It also supports any local or remote file system. Intelligent management layers are included in the solution. They abstract the underlying hardware with CPU offload, create logical volumes with redundancy, provide centralized, intelligent monitoring and management. Applications can enjoy the latency and throughput of a local NVMe device, as well as the convenience of central storage. This avoids proprietary hardware lock-in and reduces overall storage TCO. NVMesh has a distributed block layer which allows unmodified applications access to pooled NVMe storage devices over a network at local speeds. The NVMesh block client can use distributed NVMe storage resources to create dynamic block volumes.