Designing your Azure Storage – Part 1
On a previous post, I describe the different methods of Azure Storage deployment (see here).
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How to secure your Azure Virtual Machine
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...
Virtual Machines High Availability on Azure
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...
Using PowerShell to create VMs in Azure
There are several methods to deploy virtual machines on Azure. One of my favorite is using PowerShell. Using PowerShell to deploy VMs, gives you the ability to automate the process and be more efficient.
Azure Storage Deployment Models
First, we need to understand what is Azure Storage Service and how we can use it.
Convention Names versus Tags in Azure
Sometimes when I am working on an Azure Foundation project, usually they ask me “What is the difference between Convention Names and Tags?” followed by “When we should use each one?”
When to use Resource Tags in Azure
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...
What is the Internet of Things?
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...
Using Virtual Machine extensions to configure the OS on a VM
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...
How to connect to a Virtual Machine on Azure?
Once you have created an Azure VM instance with the default settings, you will be able to connect to it.
Creating Virtual Machines using the Azure ARM Portal
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...
Creating Windows Server 2016 virtual machine on Azure
To create an Azure Resource Manager virtual machine from the Azure portal, perform the following steps: Sign in to the Azure portal at portal.azure.com. On the Hub menu, click New, click Compute, and then click Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. On...
Deploying virtual machine in Azure using templates
You can also create Azure VMs by using Azure Resource Manager templates. This option relies on the capability to describe an Azure Resource Manager deployment by using an appropriately formatted text file, referred to as an Azure Resource Manager template....
Azure Resource Manager templates
When you need to create a consist method where you want to give to the end-user, that is consuming resources on your cloud, the power of creating resource like virtual machines, but you want to control lot of the environment...
Classic Virtual Machines in Azure Resource Manager
You can create still classic virtual machines from the Azure portal or by using Azure PowerShell. Although, Microsoft doesn’t recommend because it’s an old platform that they want to move away from it.
Azure SDK
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,...
Why and when to use Azure CLI
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...
How much it cost Azure?
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.
Azure PowerShell to manage Azure Subscriptions
After you install the Azure PowerShell modules, you can connect the Azure PowerShell session to the Azure subscriptions that you want to manage. To establish this connection, you first need to authenticate by using an account that exists in the...
Azure PowerShell - Overview
On Windows Server 2008, Microsoft introduces us back to the world of the command line with PowerShell. At the beginning, I must admit, at that time I was a bit reluctant to this command line tool, because I’m a GUI...
Lets try to understand the Azure Datacenters
You probably see on a Microsoft Azure presentation the slide that shows the footprint of Azure. It seems incredible. Look awesome on the slide, but when you are deploying the workloads and designing the solution in Azure, its where the...
Transform the Datacenter – Part 4 – Extend to the cloud
This post is a continuation of series of posts about Transform your datacenter. You can see the previous post: Transform the Datacenter – Part 1 Transform the Datacenter – Part 2 – Software-defined Datacenter Transform the Datacenter – Part 3...
Transform the Datacenter – Part 3 – Automate and Secure
I’ve talked about the infrastructure fabric, and how there are enhancements available in Windows Server 2012 R2 on the previous blog post (see here). But how do you think about the services that run on top of that infrastructure? How...
Transform the Datacenter – Part 2 - Software-defined Datacenter
This post is a continuation of series of posts about Transform your datacenter. You can see the previous post here.
Transform the Datacenter – Part 1
The goal of the series of posts, is based on one of my previous blog post about What we are learning from the cloud (see here). The idea is talk about the datacenter transformation that I’m seeing happening more frequently...
What are we learning from cloud?
From the past 8 years, we are seeing this transformation called CLOUD! It’s started with Public and Private! But from those early days what we learn from the Cloud?
Applications: On-Premises vs Cloud
When we talk about cloud to any organization, these are always some of the Key Points that frequently we should address: Most on-premises applications vendors recognize that the cloud is part of their customer’s future, but don’t have an actionable...
ARM vs Classic Virtual Machines
Right now, Azure allows us to use the classic and the ARM portal. They might be very similar, except the end-user experience (in this case the portal himself), because you can create virtual machines in both. Although there is a...
System Center 2012 R2 Infrastructure overview
The notion of infrastructure provisioning is about enabling enterprises and service providers to provision physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure that meets key requirements such as workload scale and performance, multi-tenancy, and chargeback.
What is a Cloud for IT Pro?
When talking to IT pros about the cloud and you’ll hear things like: “What is the cloud? Is it just a set of fancy catchphrases that’s kind of lacking technical backing?” or “I see these public cloud offerings as a...