Generally Available: Enhancements on Elastic SAN on resiliency, scalability, and integration with Azure VMWare Solution

We have published an availability Service Level Agreement (SLA). The SLA can be found [here](https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/view/Service-Level-Agreements-SLA-for-Online-Services?lang=1&year=2024), and will provide peace of mind for those of you running mission critical workloads on Elastic SAN. Additionally, we have enabled [CRC protection](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-networking-concepts#data-integrity) to help customers maintain the integrity of their data by providing CRC32C checksum verification. If enabled on the client side, Elastic SAN supports checksum verification at the volume group level. This will cause connections that don’t have CRC32C set for both header and data digests to be rejected, to prevent accidental errors during communication or storage of data. Lastly, we are excited to announce GA of the integration of [Elastic SAN with Azure VMware Solution (AVS).](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-vmware/configure-azure-elastic-san) Azure Elastic SAN offers AVS customers an Azure deployed, fully managed, VMware certified SAN that can achieve massive scale, is easy to manage, and has redundancy built in at a low TCO. AVS customers now have options to deploy their workloads based on a variety of storage performance and reliability characteristics with Elastic SAN as the native block storage, and Azure NetApp Files for native file storage. Not every workload requires the performance of directly attached storage, and many workloads like backup and disaster recovery use cases or other capacity intensive workloads can benefit from this cost-efficient, extensible storage solution.