Tagged: Virtual Machine

11
Apr
2019
0

Error on adding virtual machines to Azure Backup

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: I found very odd, why this message appears. So, I start to review the Recovery Vault configuration and I realize this Recovery Vault only had one backup policy. Then I start to investigate if this was a soft limit or hard limit...

28
Mar
2019
0

Moving to Azure Series – Error 78007 on deploying ASR agent

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. Today, while I was preparing for the next wave of migration of the workloads from on premise to Azure, I encounter the following error, while I was deploying the Azure Site Recovery (ASR) agent. After research, I found on the Microsoft documentation the Troubleshoot...

26
Mar
2018
0

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...

29
Nov
2017
0

Instant Recovery Point and Large Disk Azure Backup support

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 be able to backup and recovery those volumes. But what changed? Today the Azure Backup job consist of the Two phases: Taking a VM snapshot Transferring the VM snapshot to...

07
Nov
2017
0

Disaster Recovery solution within Azure – Part 2

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 show how you can protect your workloads (Azure VMs) from one region into another region. First step is to prepare the infrastructure. Azure Site Recovery have many scenarios that you...

31
Aug
2017
0

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...

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...

07
Jul
2017
0

Managed disk on Azure

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 VM. One of the first thing is the Use of managed disk. But what is managed disks? How they work? What are the implication of using the Managed disks? So,...

28
Jun
2017
0

Implementing Azure Site Recovery – Part 3 – For VMware Virtual Machines and physical server

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 first post here and second here), about how to implement Azure site recovery based protection on the scenarios describe on the previous series posts. If you want to visit the...

26
Jun
2017
0

Implementing Azure Site Recovery – Part 2 – For Hyper-V Virtual Machines in SCVMM Clouds

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 first post here), about how to implement Azure site recovery based protection on the scenarios describe on the previous series posts. If you want to visit the series where I...

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