See the section APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure architecture for details about the architecture. APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure deployment consists of four high-level steps:
- Plan your deployment: APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure has some specific support configurations, including cluster size, cluster capacity, Azure virtual machine instance type, and Azure disk type. You must know about the supported configuration before you start to deploy the cluster. For details, see the section Supported cluster configuration.
- Prerequisites checklist: You must fulfill all the prerequisites before following this guide to deploy a cluster. For details, see the section Prerequisites.
- Deploy Azure resources: After you have planned your deployment and fulfilled the prerequisites, you can use the Terraform module to deploy Azure resources. For details, see the section Deploy.
- Set up the cluster: To add additional nodes to the cluster, connect to the first node of the cluster. For details, see the section Error! Reference source not found..