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Thunder: Setup the cloud environment

Setup a hosted service, a storage account, and a database server.

RECOMMENDATION: To increase performance, we recommend that you locate your hosted service, storage account, and database server in the same data center.

  1. Log into the Management Portal.
  2. Create a hosted service.
  3. In the Deployment options, select Do not deploy.
  4. If you do not want to use an existing database server, you must create one.
    For more information, see Windows Azure SQL Database : How to create Windows Azure SQL Database.
  5. If you do not have an existing storage account, we recommend that you create one.
    For more information, see How to Create a Storage Account.

    NOTE: Thunder supports only classic type of accounts.

    The storage account is optional and is used for the following purposes:

    • Logging 
      Sitefinity CMS redirects its logs (which on-premises are written as files under ~/App_Data/Sitefinity/Logs folder) to the Windows Azure Diagnostics (WAD) trace listener that writes them as table entries in the specified account’s table storage - in a table named WADLogsTable. To view the content of the table, you can use Visual Studio’s Server Explorer or a third-party tool, such as Azure Storage Explorer.
    • Sitefinity CMS library storage
      For more information, see Storage providers for libraries.

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