Generally Available: Single Volume Snapshots on Azure Elastic SAN

Azure Elastic SAN now supports single volume snapshots, enabling incremental, point‑in‑time backups of individual SAN volumes. Snapshots capture only changes since the previous snapshot and reside within the SAN, allowing customers to quickly deploy new volumes from a restore point or export data to managed disk snapshots for long‑term retention. Snapshots are capacity efficient, consume SAN storage instead of incurring separate billing, and inherit the redundancy configuration of the parent SAN.

Snapshots consume provisioned SAN capacity rather than incurring separate billing and can be exported to managed disk snapshots for longer‑term retention beyond the lifecycle of the source volume. Snapshot redundancy is automatically aligned with the redundancy configuration of the parent Elastic SAN.

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