SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Yuemin Lu
Principal Product Manager/Architect
Microsoft
Yuemin Lu is a core member of the Azure Disks team, drove the product innovation of the Disk portfolio, architectural reviews of 3rd party storage onboarding to Azure, and performance optimization of data intensive workloads. Before joining Azure Storage, Yuemin was part of Azure Compute Core OS team, led the productization of Azure Block Cache technology.
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Behind the Scenes for Azure Block Storage Unique Capabilities
Azure Block Storage, also referred to as Azure Disks, is the persistent block storage for Azure Virtual Machines and a core pillar for Azure IaaS infrastructure. Azure offer unique block storage capabilities that differentiate it from other Cloud Block Storage offerings. In this talk, we will use a few of these capabilities as examples to reveal the technical designs behind and how they are tied to our XStore storage architecture. Starting with fast restore from snapshot, we will share the CoR technology built to orchestrate instant Disk recovery from snapshots stored in different storage medias. In addition, we will highlight how multi-protocol support is enabled on block storage for SCSI and REST access leveraging our 3-layer XStore architecture. We will conclude with recent enhancements to XStore architecture and upcoming innovations.
