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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...
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...
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....
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...
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.
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...
Cluster, Hyper-V Replica, Storage Migration, and other features makes for a higher availability for Hyper-V virtual machines, but it is impossible to provide 100 percent assurance in any system.
With Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V includes the ability to set certain quality-of-service (QoS) parameters for storage on the virtual machines. Storage QoS provides storage performance isolation in a multitenant environment and mechanisms to notify you when the storage I/O...
Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA) acts as a proof-of-purchase mechanism, helping to ensure that Windows products are used in accordance with the Product Use Rights and Microsoft Software License Terms.
During the last TechEd North America, Microsoft wraps off what will be the new System Center 2012 R2. The upgrade follows the impressive number of new features on Windows Server 2012 R2 as well as improvements to existing capabilities in...
NIC Teaming in a VM only applies to VM-NICs connected to external switches. VM-NICs connected to internal or private switches will show as disconnected when they are in a team.
Replication is configured on a per virtual machine basis. Virtual machines running on Primary site Hyper-V servers (or Hyper-V Failover Clusters) are configured to replicate to Replica servers (or Replica Failover Clusters) at remote sites.
