A collection of 42 posts
Today Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Spot VMs (see here the announcement). This is one of the features that I have been waiting to become general available and start to use on my costumers.
At one of my costumers, I needed to add the SMBv1 feature to enable communication with a legacy File Server running on Windows Server 2003.
When I start a project with a new costumer and the conversation ends how to manage your workloads either On-Premises or on Azure, I always like to add the Windows Admin Center (WAC) as a topic on managing the workloads....
At one of my costumer Azure Subscription, I was adding a new virtual machine to the existing Azure Recovery Vault previously configured, when I run into this error:
On this series, I want to explore all the situations that you might encounter when you are moving your workloads to the cloud, specially to Azure.
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...
At one of my costumers, after starting the process of Azure Governance, it come to my attention the following scenario, the majority of the Virtual Machines on the DevTest Labs were with no auto shutdown configuration.
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.
We all know that Azure is grow and evolving in a very fast pace. On a project that I’m working right now, I had the opportunity to work with big VMs (M Series), although working with those kinds of VMs...
In some organization, it’s common practice to have a jump server in Azure to be used, specially when you have several tools that need to run “locally” on the server. Usually this machine is on a segregated network and not...
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...
Another day, I started to play around with the Update Management, to see how I could automate the patching of Linux VMs on Azure. I’ve been using this feature to patch Windows VMs, and I want to try on Linux...
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...
With everything that happens on Azure, and following what has been announced of the increase of the size of the disk in Azure, from 1TB to 4TB, the only missing part of this was the support of Azure Backup to...
On the previous post (see here), I create the Recovery Service vault that is required to configured the Site Recovery infrastructure to protect the workloads, in order to have a Disaster Recovery solution within Azure. In the post, I will...
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.
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...
You probably already saw this when you are creating a Virtual Machine on Azure. After you insert the basic information like Name of the VM, choose the size, then comes the time to define and configure the settings of that...
After I post the series of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Planning considerations, I received an enormous quantity of feedback how It should be implemented, following those considerations. So, this is the third post of a series of 4 (see the...
After I post the series of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Planning considerations, I received an enormous quantity of feedback how It should be implemented, following those considerations. So, this is the second post of a series of 4 (see the...
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...
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...
A lot of times, during the Azure Foundation workshops session that I usually deliver, the difference between Azure virtual machines and Hyper-V virtual machines comes up. So I decide to write this post explaining what are the most important differences...
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)...
You can provide automatic scalability for Azure VMs by using Azure VM scale sets. A VM scale set consists of a group of automatically provisioned Windows or Linux virtual machines that share identical configuration and deliver the same functionality to...
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...
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...
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.
