A collection of 38 posts
On a workshop at the client, we were talking about what are the best practices to design an architecture for Resource Groups (RG) in Azure. This time we have a good time debating what will be the scenarios and what...
After implementing Azure File Sync, you wonder, how I can monitor what I just implemented? My first thought was to investigate in the Azure Resource himself, to look the sync service and see whether there are any diagnostics settings which...
On the previous and first post about the IaC Series, I wrote about the beginning on the IaC and did describe the tools. On this post I will detail all the tools that I have been using on my IaC...
During this week, I had to design a solution using Azure Load Balance to build, to host a significant amount of content that requires a lot of bandwidth. From what I could find, the size and the series of the...
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.
On the previous post (see here), I talked about the concept of Containers, Azure Container Service and Azure Service Fabric. Now that you know the concept and have an idea how to implement it, let see how can you deploy...
In the last decade, hardware virtualization has drastically changed the IT landscape. One of many consequences of this trend is the emergence of cloud computing. However, a more recent virtualization approach promises to bring even more significant changes to the...
WOW! Microsoft did it again! If you didn’t saw the announcements at the Microsoft Build 2017 Conference, you should!
A lot of times I got these questions, where is should create my resources? On the classic portal or on the ARM portal? What is the difference? Is it only the URL? Why if I choose to create a VM...
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...
When integrating your on-premises environment with Azure, you might want to use the lift-and-shift approach to migrate some of your existing workloads. There are several ways to do it. You can use Azure Site Recovery to accomplish that (see here)...
On the previous posts, I did an overview of the Azure Site Recovery service (see here) and talk about the way that I design a disaster recovery solution with ASR (see here). For this post, I want to demonstrate how...
Frequently I heard how to build a disaster recovery solution. When I heard that I always think about ASR. On my last post I talked about Azure Site Recover as an overview of the service (see here). On this post,...
On the first post (see here), I explained how the Azure backup works. On this post, I’m explaining how to integrate Azure Backup with System Center Data Protection Manager.
On the last post, I talked about why you should use the classic virtual machines. Could be a lot of reasons or could be the way that you already started a few years and all of your deployment process is...
Other day I was with on a customer that ask me why he should not create Azure classic virtual machines? He did create much of his IaaS infrastructure on the classic portal. He basically wants to understand why he should...
I know that Microsoft Azure looks easy, because you create your subscription, then you start to consume all the resources. But in some cases, start to be overwhelming, with so many details that you must take in consideration, it’s not...
On the previous post, we talked about the designing standard Azure Storage (see here). On this post, I will focus more on the Premium Azure Storage designing.
On a previous post, I describe the different methods of Azure Storage deployment (see here).
We know that Microsoft Azure offers several technologies that help to keep your data secure in use, in transit, and at rest. But what additional security measures can we implement to increase the security of my virtual machine? One of...
In general, you want your Azure virtual machine environment to be resilient to hardware failures and maintenance events that might occur occasionally within the Azure infrastructure. The primary mechanism provided by the Azure platform that helps you accomplish this objective...
First, we need to understand what is Azure Storage Service and how we can use it.
First, Tags in Azure, and almost in any other platform/application, are used to help you organize in a logical way, all the resources. So, if you have a model of subscriptions like Tier 0 (see this post) and then you...
Today, the Internet of Things (or IoT) is a difficult trend to define precisely as there is no standard definition for it, and everyone has a different meaning. Before we go any further, let’s take a moment to talk about...
When deploying Azure VMs, in addition to configuring the platform-specific settings (such as Azure Storage or networking parameters), you can also configure the operating system and applications running in the VM. This ability depends on a software component called the...
Once you have created an Azure VM instance with the default settings, you will be able to connect to it.
Creating a new VM by using the Azure Portal is a relatively straightforward process. However, it involves several steps, which you should be familiar with to implement the most optimal configuration. The first step involves choosing the origin of the...
The Azure SDK is a collection of tools, runtime binaries, client libraries, and templates that considerably simplify the development, testing, and deployment of Azure services and applications. Note: The Azure SDK is available for several development platforms, including Microsoft .NET,...
I have been a heavy Windows user for many years, but lately I have been using another OS to increase my vision and experience. But the issue is, PowerShell is a Windows OS based, and usually is not available on...
Cloud technologies generally enable you to minimize or eliminate capital expenditures completely. They also might help customers lower their operational costs. These principles are applicable to Azure and are reflected in its pricing model.
