Tagged: Azure Compute

04
Feb
2019
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Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) Series #1 – The beginning!

From the past months, I’ve been upgrading all my scripts that I have been using along the years to a platform that allows me to be more productive, reusing all the IP that I have been gathering and creating along the years. But in what way I should enhance/improve this? Then I got stroked by a light! What I was doing from all of those years was kind of an...

08
Nov
2018
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How to migrate Azure Managed Disk to different subscription and region – Part II

On the previous post I describe what need to do to move Azure Managed Disks between subscriptions and after that between regions (see link HERE). Although I didn’t explore the steps mention to move between regions. Here are the step-by-steps of each stage, mention on the previous post, of how to move the Azure Managed Disk between Azure Regions: 1. Stop the virtual machine from migrating 1. Navigate to the...

04
May
2018
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What Accelerated Networking can do on Azure VMs

Microsoft have been making a lot of enhancements on Azure VMs, specially on the performance. One of those is Accelerated Network adapters that is available on some of the Azure VM Series. Although they have made huge improvements in throughput that benefited VMs both with Accelerated Networking and those without. However, there are some things that only Accelerated Networking can do because it makes use of hardware to improve networking...

06
Apr
2018
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Unresponsive Azure VM

Another day I was at one of my costumers, and a system engineer come to me asking me if I could help him troubleshoot an issue with an unresponsive Azure VM. I love this moments, specially when I can always learn new ways that users are using Azure. OK, lets move to the issue. Here is the list of issues that he reports to me: No RDP into VM VM...

26
Mar
2018
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Serial Console access on Azure Virtual Machine

Finally come the day that Microsoft was able to announce this feature. Accessing the serial console on an Azure VM is a huge step forward. But why is so important? It’s huge! Sometimes when our friend Mr Murphy comes and makes everything goes south, you are in a certain way limited on the diagnostic tools that you have, to troubleshoot the cause of that machine is not booting. Have access...

31
Aug
2017
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Load Balanced and Availability Set with multiple VMs

When it comes to best practices to how to setup multiple virtual machines using a load balanced and availability set, the information out there is either outdated or hard to find. What is the scenario? Imagine that you need to set a few VMs that need to be shared the configuration and some files between them. How you could do it? After a few searches on the web, I come...

20
Jul
2017
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Move VM between VNETs in Azure

This week I come into this scenario, I would like to move a virtual machine in azure between different VNETs. You might have different reasons to do it, but what is the best way to do it? First you have to understand the scenario, is between VNETs on the same region, or between regions? Same subscription or different subscriptions? And at last same tenant or between different tenants? The way...

12
Jul
2017
1

Create AzureRM VM from existing VHD

While I was helping a costumer creating a Azure RM virtual machine from an existing VHD, I adapt one of my existing scripts, with some search on internet, to improve my script, that I normally used to create Azure RM virtual machines. In this case, I need to create the VM from an existing VHD on a Storage Account. Usually when you create a new VM, you have to setup...

11
Jul
2017
1

Deploy a ARM VM using an existing VHD in Azure

Another day, one of my costumer wants to rebuild a virtual machine from the existing VHD and place on the new Resource Group and on a different VLAN, but without transferring VHD. The idea was to park the VHD on a storage account to avoid transferring this huge VHD. First, I want to clarify if you delete the VM, you are not deleting the all the resources, that means that...

17
Apr
2017
0

The difference between Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services?

Azure offers several compute hosting options for integrating on-premises workloads in Azure.  On a previous post (see here), I described the difference between the both deployment methods, Azure Resource Manager and Azure Service Manager (Classic). On this post, I will focus on the difference between Azure virtual machines and Azure Cloud Services, because they serve as the basis on integration solutions. Azure virtual machines Azure virtual machines provide the greatest...

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