Hi Jon,
It's a fresh install of 10.8 - no content except the default. what I see is that the server exports take a few minutes and then the portal component takes about 4 - 6 hours.
The GIS share for backups is an AFS share provisioned at 512GB - this gives us
Allowed IO/s : 512
Burst IO/s : 1536
Egress Rate : 90.7 MiBytes / s
Ingress Rate : 60.5 MiBytes / s
Looking at the log file the backup of Server, Data Store and Portal take about 25mins, but the packaging takes forever (about 3 hours). I know we can store in Blob storage, but we still need a common location for staging and packaging so would still need a common share. Have you seen any metrics like this in Azure?
Thanks
Fraser
Jonathan Quinn