Posts, a podcast and video series about Microsoft Azure by Marcos Nogueira.https://azurecentric.com/enhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/error-on-creating-an-azure-cdn-profile-with-resource-provider/https://azurecentric.com/posts/error-on-creating-an-azure-cdn-profile-with-resource-provider/Today I was creating an Azure CDN Profile, so I could deploy static content across different azure regions. So, I went to Azure Portal I start the process. First step is to…Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMTstoragepowershellcdnportalhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-spot-virtual-machines/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-spot-virtual-machines/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…Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 GMTcomputespot-vmshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/error-0x800f081f-adding-features-windows-server-2016-azure-vm/https://azurecentric.com/posts/error-0x800f081f-adding-features-windows-server-2016-azure-vm/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.Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTcomputehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-automate-file-restore-from-an-azure-file-share-snapshot/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-automate-file-restore-from-an-azure-file-share-snapshot/One of my costumers, send me an email asking if there is a possibility of automating the file restore from an Azure File Share Snapshot. He was using the Azure portal for…Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTstorageazure-backupazure-filesazure-clihttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-connect-windows-admin-center-with-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-connect-windows-admin-center-with-azure/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…Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTautomationhybridsubscriptionswindows-admin-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/file-level-restore-on-an-azure-vm-with-encrypted-disks/https://azurecentric.com/posts/file-level-restore-on-an-azure-vm-with-encrypted-disks/At one of my costumers, we were review the backup strategy for Azure VMs. We choose to use the Azure Backup Service to accomplish that. During the brainstorming about this…Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drarchitectureazure-backupdisk-encryptionhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/file-level-restore-on-an-encrypted-azure-virtual-machine/https://azurecentric.com/posts/file-level-restore-on-an-encrypted-azure-virtual-machine/At the costumer site, I was delivering an Azure Workshop, on the topic of Azure Backup, comes the following questions: On a VM that have encrypted disks, how can we restore it?…Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-backuphttps://azurecentric.com/posts/best-practices-to-architect-resource-groups-in-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/best-practices-to-architect-resource-groups-in-azure/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…Fri, 21 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMTgovernancearm-templatesportaldisaster-recoveryhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/error-code-usererrorfsfreezefailed-on-azure-backup/https://azurecentric.com/posts/error-code-usererrorfsfreezefailed-on-azure-backup/Another day a costumer of mine, call me saying the backups that we enabled previously was troughing the following error:Tue, 11 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-backupportaldockerlinuxhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-remove-a-hostpool-from-the-windows-virtual-desktop-on-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-remove-a-hostpool-from-the-windows-virtual-desktop-on-azure/After a few times deploying a Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) infrastructure on Azure, I always found that sometimes you have the necessity to reset your environment, specially…Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTcomputepowershellvirtual-desktophttps://azurecentric.com/posts/error-on-adding-virtual-machines-to-azure-backup/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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:Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-backupportalhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/moving-to-azure-series-error-78007-on-deploying-asr-agent/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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.Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoverytroubleshootinghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/monitoring-azure-file-sync/https://azurecentric.com/posts/monitoring-azure-file-sync/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…Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMTstorageazure-filesbackupmonitoringhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/infrastructure-as-a-code-iac-series-2-the-tools/https://azurecentric.com/posts/infrastructure-as-a-code-iac-series-2-the-tools/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…Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMTautomationiachttps://azurecentric.com/posts/infrastructure-as-a-code-iac-series-1-the-beginning/https://azurecentric.com/posts/infrastructure-as-a-code-iac-series-1-the-beginning/From the past months, I’ve been upgrading all my scripts that I have been using along the years to a platform that allows me to be more productive, reusing all the IP that I…Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMTautomationazure-backupnetworkingazure-site-recoverystorageiachttps://azurecentric.com/posts/considerations-on-using-load-balancing-with-azure-vms/https://azurecentric.com/posts/considerations-on-using-load-balancing-with-azure-vms/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…Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingarchitectureload-balancerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/auto-shutdown-an-azure-vm-with-powershell/https://azurecentric.com/posts/auto-shutdown-an-azure-vm-with-powershell/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…Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTautomationdevtest-labspowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/moving-to-azure-series-how-to-get-the-azure-vm-unique-id/https://azurecentric.com/posts/moving-to-azure-series-how-to-get-the-azure-vm-unique-id/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.Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTcomputelinuxwmihttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-migrate-azure-managed-disk-to-different-subscription-and-region-part-ii/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-migrate-azure-managed-disk-to-different-subscription-and-region-part-ii/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…Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMTstorageportalmanaged-diskspowershellvhdsubscriptionshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-migrate-azure-managed-disk-to-different-subscription-and-region-part-i/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-migrate-azure-managed-disk-to-different-subscription-and-region-part-i/On a recent project, I was asked to help move some virtual machines from a MSDN Subscription to a CSP subscription. With this move, we use the opportunity to consolidate on a…Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMTstoragemanaged-diskspowershellvhdhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-overwrite-tags-on-an-azure-resource/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-overwrite-tags-on-an-azure-resource/With the limitation of 15 Tags per resource, you will reach a point that you need to intervene and either remove some of the tags or reuse them. On my previous post (How to…Tue, 10 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTgovernancepowershellazure-automationhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-update-specified-tag-from-a-resource/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-update-specified-tag-from-a-resource/The usage of Tags on Azure resources is a very common and very useful for several reasons that I will not cover on this post. Although in some occasions, if you need to update…Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTgovernanceazure-automationpowershelltagshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-get-tags-for-all-the-resources-on-the-same-resource-group/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-get-tags-for-all-the-resources-on-the-same-resource-group/When you heavily use Tags on your Azure Resources, is very easy to reach the limits of the Tags that Azure allow to use on each resource. On the other hand, to be consistent on…Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTgovernanceazure-automationpowershelltagshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-access-azure-blob-storage-container-via-a-sas-token/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-access-azure-blob-storage-container-via-a-sas-token/Today I received an email, from a colleague ask me if it’s there is a way that you can download the entire blob container having a SAS token via PowerShell.Tue, 12 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTstorageazcopyblob-storagepowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-policy-auditing-public-blob-storage/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-policy-auditing-public-blob-storage/In a Governance project, one of the most common policy to implement is the one that you don’t allow any blob storage to be public. That usually could be a major information…Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTgovernanceazure-policyhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-policy-allowing-only-define-vm-sizes/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-policy-allowing-only-define-vm-sizes/Azure Policy is the big step to start to have some sort of governance on your Azure environment. It’s really easy to implement, efficient and powerful. With Azure Policies, you…Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTgovernanceazure-policysubscriptionshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/choosing-the-type-of-azure-blob-storage-for-sql-backups/https://azurecentric.com/posts/choosing-the-type-of-azure-blob-storage-for-sql-backups/During the storage design on the Azure Foundation workshop that I usually deliver on a beginning of a new Azure project, come the topic and following that, the discussion about…Thu, 31 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTstoragearchitectureazure-backupbackupsqlhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/instant-vm-recovery-using-azure-backup/https://azurecentric.com/posts/instant-vm-recovery-using-azure-backup/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…Tue, 22 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-backupmanaged-diskshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/unable-to-rdp-into-azure-vms/https://azurecentric.com/posts/unable-to-rdp-into-azure-vms/After patching all the Windows Server in Azure, a colleague calls me in panic, because their users, could not access their VMs through RDP. They were getting a CredSSP error…Sat, 19 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTcomputerdptroubleshootinghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-enable-rds-license-on-an-azure-vm/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-enable-rds-license-on-an-azure-vm/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…Tue, 15 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTcomputerdshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/changing-the-azure-gateway-subnet-with-express-route/https://azurecentric.com/posts/changing-the-azure-gateway-subnet-with-express-route/One of the things that I like to do when I start a new Azure Architecture, is what I called an Azure Foundation workshop, where I can validate all the infrastructure…Thu, 10 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingexpressroutevnethttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-remotely-disable-network-level-authentication-nla-on-azure-virtual-machine/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-remotely-disable-network-level-authentication-nla-on-azure-virtual-machine/Today, I received an email from a colleague, saying that he could RDP into his Azure VM after he rebooted the machine through the OS (applying patches). When he tried to access…Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTcomputetroubleshootinghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/what-accelerated-networking-can-do-on-azure-vms/https://azurecentric.com/posts/what-accelerated-networking-can-do-on-azure-vms/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…Fri, 04 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTnetworkinghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/understanding-the-limits-on-azure-key-vault/https://azurecentric.com/posts/understanding-the-limits-on-azure-key-vault/When you are designing the architecture for your application on Azure, I always revisit the Azure Subscription Service Limits to see if all the requirements are not over the…Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTgovernancekey-vaulthttps://azurecentric.com/posts/adding-an-ip-to-an-existing-azure-virtual-network-gateway/https://azurecentric.com/posts/adding-an-ip-to-an-existing-azure-virtual-network-gateway/So, you have a Virtual Network Gateway deployed in Azure and it’s working just fine, although you would like to add another public IP to an existing Azure Virtual Network…Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingportalvpn-gatewayvnethigh-availabilityhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/global-vnet-peering-is-available/https://azurecentric.com/posts/global-vnet-peering-is-available/Finally! I have been waiting for this to blog it and start to setup. Being an Azure MVP is AWESOME, although sometimes you can’t share what is coming with no one. Even your…Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingvnet-peeringvnethttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-update-management-for-linux-vms/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-update-management-for-linux-vms/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…Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTcomputelinuxhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/unresponsive-azure-vm/https://azurecentric.com/posts/unresponsive-azure-vm/Another day I was at one of my costumers, and a system engineer come to me asking me if I could help him troubleshoot an issue with an unresponsive Azure VM. I love this…Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTcomputecloud-shellportalpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-availability-zones-and-zone-redundant-storage-hits-ga/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-availability-zones-and-zone-redundant-storage-hits-ga/Very exciting news come this week! Microsoft announces the General Availability for Azure Availability Zones and Zone Redundant Storage. This is really good, because now you…Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTcloudstoragehigh-availabilityhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/serial-console-access-on-azure-virtual-machine/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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!…Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMTcomputeportalhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-vnet-to-vnet-vpn-configuration-part-3/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-vnet-to-vnet-vpn-configuration-part-3/In this blog post series, I will cover what you need to configure to create a VNet-to-VNet VPN between to Azure regions on the same subscription. Although is about the same…Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingportalhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-vnet-to-vnet-vpn-configuration-part-2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-vnet-to-vnet-vpn-configuration-part-2/In this blog post series, I will cover what you need to configure to create a VNet-to-VNet VPN between to Azure regions on the same subscription. Although is about the same…Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-vnet-to-vnet-vpn-configuration-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-vnet-to-vnet-vpn-configuration-part-1/In this blog post series, I will cover what you need to configure to create a VNet-to-VNet VPN between to Azure regions on the same subscription. Although is about the same…Wed, 06 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkinghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/instant-recovery-point-and-large-disk-azure-backup-support/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-backupstoragepowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/enhancements-on-azure-portal-notifications/https://azurecentric.com/posts/enhancements-on-azure-portal-notifications/If you are like me and your Azure Portal is your center on your day, you probably see this enhancement of the notifications. I found very useful and make my day way more…Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTcloudportalhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-cloud-shell-vs-azure-cli/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-cloud-shell-vs-azure-cli/At a local community event, after my presentation I was answering some questions and one of the attendee ask me if Azure Cloud Shell is the same tool as Azure CLI.Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTautomationazure-clicloud-shelllinuxpowershellcontainershttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-use-azure-cloud-shell/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-use-azure-cloud-shell/Since when they announce the Azure Cloud Shell (see post here), I’ve been waiting to use the PowerShell on the Azure Cloud Shell. I’m still growing my learning how to use the…Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTautomationazure-clipowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/disaster-recovery-solution-within-azure-part-2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drportalazure-site-recoveryhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/disaster-recovery-solution-within-azure-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/disaster-recovery-solution-within-azure-part-1/We know that in the Public Cloud, special Azure, we are cover by the SLA. Although some organizations like to be redundant where it comes to critical workloads. In this post I…Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoveryportalhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/interview-with-mvp/https://azurecentric.com/posts/interview-with-mvp/Kevin Kaminski is a Windows and Devices MVP, he had this brilliant idea of creatingThe Virtually There with Kevin Kaminski series various people. I had the honor to be the…Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/deploy-arm-templates-using-key-vault/https://azurecentric.com/posts/deploy-arm-templates-using-key-vault/I’ve been deploying to Azure a lot of resources, one of my favorite things is to create templates where I can reuse for other situations. But sometimes, and in some situations,…Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMTautomationarm-templatesportalstoragehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-resource-manager-powershell-module/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-resource-manager-powershell-module/If you are like me that like to have all the tools on your desktop/laptop, special the Azure PowerShell module, now your live is way easier. Not long time ago, you had to…Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMTautomationpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/load-balanced-and-availability-set-with-multiple-vms/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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.Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingarm-templateshigh-availabilityarchitecturehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-updates-series-august-2017/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-updates-series-august-2017/From the all the enhances or new features that Azure releases on the month of August, there was 2 that will make our live easier, at least in my opinion/experience/area of work…Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTcloudsubscriptionshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/multiple-azure-subscriptions-with-one-oms-workspace/https://azurecentric.com/posts/multiple-azure-subscriptions-with-one-oms-workspace/I was this week at one of my costumers, and one of the topics that came to the conversation was, how I can connect several Azure subscriptions within the same tenant to OMS?Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTgovernancesubscriptionshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/multiple-level-alerts-with-arm-template/https://azurecentric.com/posts/multiple-level-alerts-with-arm-template/If you run into the situation, that you want to set multiple activity alerts into a resource that you want to monitor, but when you configure or want to edit the alert, you…Mon, 07 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTautomationarm-templateshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/move-vm-between-vnets-in-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/move-vm-between-vnets-in-azure/This week I come into this scenario, I would like to move a virtual machine in azure between different VNETs. You might have different reasons to do it, but what is the best…Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingarm-templatesvhdhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/create-azurerm-vm-from-existing-vhd/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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,…Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputepowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/deploy-a-arm-vm-using-an-existing-vhd-in-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/deploy-a-arm-vm-using-an-existing-vhd-in-azure/Another day, one of my costumer wants to rebuild a virtual machine from the existing VHD and place on the new Resource Group and on a different VLAN, but without transferring…Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputearm-templatespowershellvhdhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/managed-disk-on-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTstorageazure-backupbackuphigh-availabilityrbacvhdhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-mvp-award/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-mvp-award/What a better way to start the 150th Canada day receiving this email:Sat, 01 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTcloudmvphttps://azurecentric.com/posts/implementing-azure-site-recovery-part-4-managing-and-automating/https://azurecentric.com/posts/implementing-azure-site-recovery-part-4-managing-and-automating/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…Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoveryhybridhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/implementing-azure-site-recovery-part-3-for-vmware-virtual-machines-and-physical-server/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Wed, 28 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoveryhybridvmwarehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/implementing-azure-site-recovery-part-2-for-hyper-v-virtual-machines-in-scvmm-clouds/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoveryhybridhyper-vscvmmsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/implementing-azure-site-recovery-part-1-for-hyper-v-virtual-machines/https://azurecentric.com/posts/implementing-azure-site-recovery-part-1-for-hyper-v-virtual-machines/After the series of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Planning considerations, I received an enormous quantity of feedback how It should be implemented, following those considerations.…Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoveryhybridhyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-site-recovery-planning-considerations-part-4-for-vmware-virtual-machines-and-physical-server/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-site-recovery-planning-considerations-part-4-for-vmware-virtual-machines-and-physical-server/On these post series, I want to cover some of the planning considerations that I usually use, when I’m designing/planning with my costumers, an ASR deployment/infrastructure. I…Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoveryarchitectureprivate-cloudvmwarehybridhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-site-recovery-planning-considerations-part-3-for-hyper-v-virtual-machines-in-scvmm-clouds/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-site-recovery-planning-considerations-part-3-for-hyper-v-virtual-machines-in-scvmm-clouds/On these post series, I want to cover some of the planning considerations that I usually use, when I’m designing/planning with my costumers, an ASR deployment/infrastructure. I…Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoveryarchitecturehybridhyper-vprivate-cloudscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-site-recovery-planning-considerations-part-2-for-hyper-v-virtual-machines/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-site-recovery-planning-considerations-part-2-for-hyper-v-virtual-machines/On these post series, I want to cover some of the planning considerations that I usually use, when I’m designing/planning with my costumers, an ASR deployment/infrastructure. I…Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoveryarchitecturehybridhyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-site-recovery-planning-considerations-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-site-recovery-planning-considerations-part-1/I have been writing quite a bit about how Azure Site Recovery can help you build a Disaster Recovery solution, help you migrating workloads in to Azure, help you migrate…Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoveryarchitecturehybridvhdhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-configure-azure-logic-apps/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-configure-azure-logic-apps/Usually for social media automation I used for a long time IFTTT, although with Azure Logic Apps I decide to give a try. I started to use Azure Logic Apps for a project not…Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTappslogic-appshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-configure-your-hybrid-network-solution-with-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-configure-your-hybrid-network-solution-with-azure/By combining the existing Azure networking features, it is possible to configure Azure virtual networks to function as an extension of your on-premises datacenter. You have the…Mon, 12 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingarchitecturehybridhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-an-expressroute-vpn-on-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-an-expressroute-vpn-on-azure/To understand deeper what are the options you have to connect your datacenter/organization with Azure, I recommend read this older post. On this post I want to share what do…Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingexpressroutehybridhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-a-site-to-site-vpn-on-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-a-site-to-site-vpn-on-azure/To understand deeper what are the options you have to connect your datacenter/organization with Azure, I recommend read this older post. On this post I want to share what do…Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingarchitecturehybridpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-a-point-to-site-vpn-on-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-a-point-to-site-vpn-on-azure/To understand deeper what are the options you have to connect your organization with Azure, I recommend read this older post. On this post, I want to share what do you need to…Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingarchitecturehybridpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/options-to-connect-your-datacenter-to-azure-virtual-networks-part-4-expressroute/https://azurecentric.com/posts/options-to-connect-your-datacenter-to-azure-virtual-networks-part-4-expressroute/On the one of the previous post (see here) I briefly describe the options that you have to cross-premise connections to Azure. On this post, I want to explore more one of the…Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingarchitectureexpressroutehybridhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/new-version-of-azure-backup-server-introduces-modern-backup-storage-technology/https://azurecentric.com/posts/new-version-of-azure-backup-server-introduces-modern-backup-storage-technology/WOW! What a day for me! Microsoft Azure just announces new and improved features on the new version Azure Backup Server. Let’s start!Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-backuphybridhyper-vvmwarefailover-clusterhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/bigger-disks-on-azure-storage/https://azurecentric.com/posts/bigger-disks-on-azure-storage/If you follow the announcements during the Microsoft Build 2017 conference on the beginning of the month, one of the announcements was the increase of the size of the disks in…Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTstoragevhdhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/options-to-connect-your-datacenter-to-azure-virtual-networks-part-3-site-to-site-vpn/https://azurecentric.com/posts/options-to-connect-your-datacenter-to-azure-virtual-networks-part-3-site-to-site-vpn/On the one of the previous post (see here) I briefly describe the options that you have to cross-premise connections to Azure. On this post, I want to explore more one of the…Fri, 26 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingarchitecturehyper-vhybridhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/options-to-connect-your-datacenter-to-azure-virtual-networks-part-2-point-to-site-vpn/https://azurecentric.com/posts/options-to-connect-your-datacenter-to-azure-virtual-networks-part-2-point-to-site-vpn/On the previous post (see here) I briefly describe the options that you have to cross-premise connections to Azure. On this post I want to explore more one of the options:…Wed, 24 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkinghybridhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/using-powershell-on-azure-cloud-shell/https://azurecentric.com/posts/using-powershell-on-azure-cloud-shell/On the past May 10th, during the keynote of the Microsoft Build 2017 Conference in Seattle (WA), Microsoft announce the Azure Cloud Shell (see post here). Although on the May…Wed, 24 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTautomationpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/options-to-connect-your-datacenter-to-azure-virtual-networks-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/options-to-connect-your-datacenter-to-azure-virtual-networks-part-1/In our days, we are starting to see a lot of change how organizations approach the cloud and how they adapt the cloud to their environment. So, why the way you connect to your…Fri, 19 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkinghybridhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-resource-manager-networking-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-resource-manager-networking-part-1/Usually when we talk about Azure Networking, our focus has been on Azure virtual networks and resources that facilitate deployment of virtual machines into virtual networks.…Thu, 18 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTnetworkinghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/containers-on-azure-part-2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/containers-on-azure-part-2/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…Tue, 16 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTappsservice-fabricfailover-clusterlinuxdockerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/containers-on-azure-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/containers-on-azure-part-1/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…Sat, 13 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTappscontainer-serviceservice-fabricfailover-clusterlinuxarchitecturehyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-cloud-shell-everywhere/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-cloud-shell-everywhere/WOW! Microsoft did it again! If you didn’t saw the announcements at the Microsoft Build 2017 Conference, you should!Wed, 10 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTautomationpowershellazure-clihttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-cloud-shell/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-cloud-shell/Microsoft Azure is an awesome evolving platform that I love to work. Today when I enter at my Azure subscription I saw something new. But this is not unusual on Azure.…Thu, 04 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTautomationpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/differences-between-the-classic-and-the-azure-resource-manager-deployment-model/https://azurecentric.com/posts/differences-between-the-classic-and-the-azure-resource-manager-deployment-model/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…Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTgovernancenetworkinghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-extend-azure-service-fabric-to-on-premise/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-extend-azure-service-fabric-to-on-premise/You can deploy a Service Fabric cluster on any physical or virtual machine running the Windows Server operating system, including ones residing in your on-premises datacenters.…Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTappsservice-fabricpowershellfailover-clusterhigh-availabilityhyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/the-difference-between-azure-virtual-machines-and-azure-cloud-services/https://azurecentric.com/posts/the-difference-between-azure-virtual-machines-and-azure-cloud-services/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…Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTappshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/virtual-machines-hyper-v-vs-azure-iaas/https://azurecentric.com/posts/virtual-machines-hyper-v-vs-azure-iaas/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…Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputeazure-site-recoveryhyper-vgeneration-2https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-move-your-workloads-to-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-move-your-workloads-to-azure/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…Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTcloudazure-site-recoveryhybridhyper-vgeneration-2https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-implement-azure-site-recovery/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-implement-azure-site-recovery/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).…Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoveryhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-build-a-disaster-recovery-solution-with-azure-site-recovery/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-build-a-disaster-recovery-solution-with-azure-site-recovery/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…Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drarchitectureazure-site-recoveryhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/virtual-machine-scalability-in-azure-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/virtual-machine-scalability-in-azure-part-1/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…Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputearchitecturepowershellarm-templatesazure-clihttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-site-recovery-2017/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-site-recovery-2017/Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is by far one of the Azure features that I always like to play with. The improvement along the time is above extraordinaire! When I’m talking about…Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoveryhyper-vlinuxscvmmsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-backup-part-4-system-center-and-azure-backup/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-backup-part-4-system-center-and-azure-backup/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.Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-backupazure-site-recoverysystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-backup-part-3-backup-virtual-machines/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-backup-part-3-backup-virtual-machines/On the first post (see here), I explained how the Azure backup works. On this post, I’m explaining how to backup Virtual Machines with Azure Backup.Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-backupazure-site-recoverystoragehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-backup-part-2-azure-backup-agent/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-backup-part-2-azure-backup-agent/On the first post (see here), I explain how the Azure backup works. On this post, I’m explain how the files and folders are backup with the Azure Backup agent.Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-backupazure-site-recoverystoragehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-backup-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-backup-part-1/One of the first workloads that usually the majority the organizations wants to start to use in Azure is to replace the tape to Cloud Backup. Following the best practices for…Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-backupstoragehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-monitor-and-manage-azure-classic-virtual-machines/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-monitor-and-manage-azure-classic-virtual-machines/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…Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-classic-virtual-machines-why-use-it/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-classic-virtual-machines-why-use-it/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…Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-use-blob-containers-in-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-use-blob-containers-in-azure/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…Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTstoragearchitecturepowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/designing-your-azure-storage-part-2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/designing-your-azure-storage-part-2/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.Sat, 11 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTstoragearchitecturehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/designing-your-azure-storage-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/designing-your-azure-storage-part-1/On a previous post, I describe the different methods of Azure Storage deployment (see here).Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTstoragearchitecturehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-secure-your-azure-virtual-machine/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputelinuxhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/virtual-machines-high-availability-on-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Sat, 04 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputearchitecturehyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/using-powershell-to-create-vms-in-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTautomationhybridpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-storage-deployment-models/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-storage-deployment-models/First, we need to understand what is Azure Storage Service and how we can use it.Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTstoragearchitecturehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/convention-names-versus-tags-in-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Sun, 26 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTgovernancehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/when-to-use-resource-tags-in-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Sat, 25 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTgovernancetagshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/naming-conventions-in-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/naming-conventions-in-azure/Why having a good name convention in Azure have a huge importance?Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTgovernancehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-subscriptions-best-practices-part-2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-subscriptions-best-practices-part-2/On the previous blog post (see here), we saw the characteristics of an Azure subscriptions. Now lets see how we can architect the Azure Subscription model, using best practices.Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTgovernancerbacsubscriptionshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-subscriptions-best-practices-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-subscriptions-best-practices-part-1/Frequently when I’m working on an Azure Foundation project, one of the topic that I like to explore is the Azure Subscriptions. These series of blog post will detail all the…Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTgovernancerbacsubscriptionshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/store-backup-recover-your-data-part-2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/store-backup-recover-your-data-part-2/This is a continuation of the previous blog post http://azurecentric.com/2017/02/13/store-backup-recover-your-data-part-1/Thu, 16 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-backupstoragehybridstorsimplehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/store-backup-recover-your-data-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/store-backup-recover-your-data-part-1/Let’s first understand why Cloud makes for a great storage option?Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-backupstoragehybridstorsimplehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/hybrid-cloud-storage/https://azurecentric.com/posts/hybrid-cloud-storage/Cloud storage is the ideal way to handle the exploding demand for storage across industries. By moving data that is less frequently accessed to the cloud, you free up space…Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTstoragehybridstorsimplehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/storage-backup-and-disaster-recovery-a-comparison/https://azurecentric.com/posts/storage-backup-and-disaster-recovery-a-comparison/With terms like cloud storage, backup and disaster recovery floating around, it can help to take a step back and get a better idea of what each of these really mean and how…Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoverystorageazure-backuphttps://azurecentric.com/posts/what-is-the-internet-of-things/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTappsiothttps://azurecentric.com/posts/using-virtual-machine-extensions-to-configure-the-os-on-a-vm/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTautomationazure-clilinuxvm-extensionshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-connect-to-a-virtual-machine-on-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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.Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMTcomputelinuxhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-virtual-machines-using-the-azure-arm-portal/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMTcomputelinuxhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-windows-server-2016-virtual-machine-on-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-windows-server-2016-virtual-machine-on-azure/To create an Azure Resource Manager virtual machine from the Azure portal, perform the following steps: 1. Sign in to the Azure portal at portal.azure.com. 2. On the Hub menu,…Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMTcomputehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/deploying-virtual-machine-in-azure-using-templates/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Mon, 10 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMTautomationarm-templateshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-resource-manager-templates/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Sun, 02 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMTautomationarm-templatespowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/classic-virtual-machines-in-azure-resource-manager/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Thu, 22 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMTcomputepowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-sdk/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMTautomationazure-sdkhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/why-and-when-to-use-azure-cli/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMTautomationazure-clihttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-much-it-cost-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Mon, 15 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMTgovernancehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-powershell-to-manage-azure-subscriptions/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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,…Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMTgovernancepowershellsubscriptionshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-powershell-overview/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMTautomationpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/lets-try-to-understand-the-azure-datacenters/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudarchitecturehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/transform-the-datacenter-part-4-extend-to-the-cloud/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridprivate-cloudsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/transform-the-datacenter-part-3-automate-and-secure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/transform-the-datacenter-part-2-software-defined-datacenter/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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.Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/transform-the-datacenter-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Mon, 30 May 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridsoftware-defined-datacenterhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/what-are-we-learning-from-cloud/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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?Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridprivate-cloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/applications-on-premises-vs-cloud/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridprivate-cloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/arm-vs-classic-virtual-machines/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMTcomputevhdhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/what-is-in-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/what-is-in-azure/While i was doing my annual backup, i found this in the middle. This will give you a bit what are the main services that i normally use or at least a see the majority of the…Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudarchitecturemobile-serviceshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-innovations-in-the-last-18-months/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-innovations-in-the-last-18-months/How can we be up-to-date with all the new or enhanced features on Azure if this is what Microsoft had been working on in the last 18 months.Fri, 08 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudnetworkingstoragehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-on-enterprise-world/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-on-enterprise-world/What you as enterprise customers uniquely expect from a public cloud platform. These are “must haves” that I always get when I asked: Integration – So you can integrate with…Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/why-microsoft-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/why-microsoft-azure/I understand that there is a lot of competition when you consider all the cloud platform players out there. When I looked at what makes Microsoft unique in this space, is the…Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-site-recovery/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-site-recovery/Microsoft Azure Site Recovery was first introduced in January 2014, and helps customers to protect important services by coordinating the replication and recovery of System…Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMTbackup-drazure-site-recoveryhybridhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/cloud-innovation-presents-challenges-for-it/https://azurecentric.com/posts/cloud-innovation-presents-challenges-for-it/On my various engagements, often come to the conversations what are the challenges that I see IT facing and how the cloud innovation can help address lot of those challenges.Sun, 27 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/why-consider-the-cloud/https://azurecentric.com/posts/why-consider-the-cloud/In the last few years, we have seen an explosive growth in the use of the public cloud. While most of the initial adoption was seen by startups and smaller organizations, most…Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/new-cps-whitepaper-is-out-now/https://azurecentric.com/posts/new-cps-whitepaper-is-out-now/The Microsoft CPS Team (Cloud Platfform System aka Cloud-in-Box) recently authored a white paper that covers a variety of performance metrics. The white paper is broken down…Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/take-your-next-microsoft-certification-exam-on-line-nearly-anywhere/https://azurecentric.com/posts/take-your-next-microsoft-certification-exam-on-line-nearly-anywhere/Your next Microsoft Certification exam on-line, nearly anywhereThu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudcertificationhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/update-rollup-5-for-system-center-2012-r2-virtual-machine-manager/https://azurecentric.com/posts/update-rollup-5-for-system-center-2012-r2-virtual-machine-manager/Microsoft just release the Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager. From all the bug that this rollup is fixing, it’s also introducing some new features.Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhybridscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/cloud-platform-roadmap/https://azurecentric.com/posts/cloud-platform-roadmap/What to know more about Microsoft Cloud Platform and what is coming up? Just visit this site! Microsoft enable you to know what is new at the Microsoft Cloud Platform…Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/software-defined-networking-with-windows-server-and-system-center-jump-start/https://azurecentric.com/posts/software-defined-networking-with-windows-server-and-system-center-jump-start/Free online event with live QA with the WAP team: http://aka.ms/WAPIaaSWed, 02 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverwindows-azure-packhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-enhancement-site-to-site-vpn-functionality/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-enhancement-site-to-site-vpn-functionality/After Scott Guthrie announce the new enhancements on Azure, last May, I was very excited with one in particular. Multi Site-to-Site VPN. This enhancement comes at the best…Fri, 27 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingvpnhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-2012-hotfixes-where-i-can-find-it-and-how-to-automate-the-deployment/https://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-2012-hotfixes-where-i-can-find-it-and-how-to-automate-the-deployment/After my session at TechEd about Best Practices for Virtualizing and Managing Microsoft SharePoint 2013 with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2 one of…Wed, 28 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhotfixpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/scom-alert-winrm-is-not-functional-or-not-the-right-version/https://azurecentric.com/posts/scom-alert-winrm-is-not-functional-or-not-the-right-version/On System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (SCOM) (with UR2) starting to appear Critical Alerts coming from System Center Advisor (SCA) saying that my System Center 2012 R2…Tue, 27 May 2014 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhyper-vscomscvmmwinrmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/virtualizing-your-data-center-with-hyper-v-and-system-center/https://azurecentric.com/posts/virtualizing-your-data-center-with-hyper-v-and-system-center/Free online event with live Q&A: http://aka.ms/virtDCFri, 14 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMTcloudhyper-vscvmmsystem-centervmwarehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/iscsi-connection-issues-with-hyper-v-server/https://azurecentric.com/posts/iscsi-connection-issues-with-hyper-v-server/If you have a Hyper-V Cluster connected through iSCSI to a storage solution and sometimes you get errors that your CSV volumes went offline. In some cases, the Windows Failover…Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-viscsihttps://azurecentric.com/posts/cluster-shared-volumes-csv-errors-on-hyper-v-cluster/https://azurecentric.com/posts/cluster-shared-volumes-csv-errors-on-hyper-v-cluster/In a failover cluster, virtual machines can use Cluster Shared Volumes that are on the same LUN (disk), while still being able to fail over (or move from node to node)…Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vcluster-shared-volumesfailover-clusterserver-corehigh-availabilityhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/updates-on-hyper-v-server-how-to-see-what-had-been-installed/https://azurecentric.com/posts/updates-on-hyper-v-server-how-to-see-what-had-been-installed/When do you need to see what updates had been installed on your Hyper-V server, you can use this PowerShell cmdlet to list all the updates. powershell Get-WmiObject -Class…Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/integration-between-hyper-v-network-virtualization-and-windows-server-gateway/https://azurecentric.com/posts/integration-between-hyper-v-network-virtualization-and-windows-server-gateway/One of features on Windows Server 2012 R2 that was improved since the last version is network virtualization. Virtual networks are created by using Hyper-V Network…Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vnetwork-virtualizationwindows-server-gatewayhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/mpio-on-hyper-v-server/https://azurecentric.com/posts/mpio-on-hyper-v-server/On the previous version of Windows Server (prior Windows Server 2012) you have to download and install MultiPath I/O (MPIO). Since Windows Server 2012 MPIO is a feature that…Mon, 28 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vmpiopowershellserver-corehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-best-practices-analyzer/https://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-best-practices-analyzer/Sometimes when you deploy an Hyper-V Server you don’t know if you miss any configuration or if you are following the best practices regarding security, configuration or even…Sat, 19 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vbest-practices-analyzerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-delegate-access-in-hyper-v/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-delegate-access-in-hyper-v/In some medium/large organizations, it is common practice to have different access levels for systems, such as administrator, help desk, support and auditor. When implementing…Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vazmanrbacpowershellsecurityhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/performing-daily-task-with-powershell-to-manage-hyper-v-server/https://azurecentric.com/posts/performing-daily-task-with-powershell-to-manage-hyper-v-server/As a virtualization administrator, you will come across a lot of scenarios where you will need to create, modify, move, export, and other tasks to manage your virtual machines…Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/managing-hyper-v-server-remotely-through-powershell/https://azurecentric.com/posts/managing-hyper-v-server-remotely-through-powershell/Working with PowerShell can be very common for daily tasks and Hyper-V Server management. However, as there is more than one server to be managed, sometimes it can be difficult…Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/backing-up-hyper-v-and-virtual-machines-using-windows-server-backup/https://azurecentric.com/posts/backing-up-hyper-v-and-virtual-machines-using-windows-server-backup/Previous versions of Hyper-V (like 2008, 2008 R2 and 2008 R2 SP1) had complications and incompatibilities with the built-in backup tool, forcing the administrators to acquire…Sun, 13 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/restoring-hyper-v-and-virtual-machines-using-windows-server-backup/https://azurecentric.com/posts/restoring-hyper-v-and-virtual-machines-using-windows-server-backup/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…Sun, 13 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/enabling-and-disabling-the-graphical-interface-in-hyper-v-server-core/https://azurecentric.com/posts/enabling-and-disabling-the-graphical-interface-in-hyper-v-server-core/Server Core has many installation benefits, but there are a few situations where the GUI is better and provides more options; for example, when we need to troubleshoot a…Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vserver-corehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/managing-a-hyper-v-server-core-installation-using-sconfig/https://azurecentric.com/posts/managing-a-hyper-v-server-core-installation-using-sconfig/With all the benefits that Server Core bring such as performance, security and so on. But without the GUI, it's not easy to do the daily management and maintenance of Hyper-V.…Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vserver-corehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/installing-and-running-hyper-v-2012-r2-from-a-usb-stick/https://azurecentric.com/posts/installing-and-running-hyper-v-2012-r2-from-a-usb-stick/Hyper-V 2012 R2 Server is the free version of Hyper-V and it offers all the components and features that are available in Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V. It is a Windows…Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vusbhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/configuring-constrained-delegation-to-authenticate-live-migrations/https://azurecentric.com/posts/configuring-constrained-delegation-to-authenticate-live-migrations/Constrained delegation allows live migrations to be started using any remote management tool and might help in providing more flexibility to move your VMs.Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vlive-migrationhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-plan-your-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-networks/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-plan-your-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-networks/For several times I have just ending up to explain how we should handle with networks on SCVMM in different scenarios. Here is the base that I use to planning SCVMM networks…Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-servernetworkingscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/windows-server-2012-r2-hyper-v-vs-vmware-vsphere-5-5/https://azurecentric.com/posts/windows-server-2012-r2-hyper-v-vs-vmware-vsphere-5-5/On my search for comparing the newest version of VMware with Hyper-V 2012 R2 I found this chart that I think it will summarize what you need to know about the two Hypervisors.Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vdynamic-optimizationsystem-centerscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/storage-qos-on-vms-in-hyper-v-2012-r2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/storage-qos-on-vms-in-hyper-v-2012-r2/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…Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vstorage-qosstoragehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/configuring-a-shared-virtual-hard-disk/https://azurecentric.com/posts/configuring-a-shared-virtual-hard-disk/Starting in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, Hyper-V makes it possible to share a virtual hard disk file between multiple virtual machines. Sharing a virtual hard disk file…Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/rtm-for-windows-server-2012-r2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/rtm-for-windows-server-2012-r2/Today Microsoft announce a big milestone: Windows Server 2012 R2 has been released to manufacturing!Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/free-ebook-introducing-windows-server-2012-r2-preview-release/https://azurecentric.com/posts/free-ebook-introducing-windows-server-2012-r2-preview-release/Microsoft just announce another free ebook offering from Microsoft Press. Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release (ISBN 9780735682931), by Mitch Tulloch with the…Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/automatic-virtual-machine-activation-on-windows-server-2012-r2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/automatic-virtual-machine-activation-on-windows-server-2012-r2/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…Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vavmahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/resizing-a-virtual-hard-disk-with-windows-server-2012-r2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/resizing-a-virtual-hard-disk-with-windows-server-2012-r2/Starting in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, Hyper-V delivers the ability to expand or shrink the size of a virtual hard disk while the virtual machine is still running.Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/enhanced-session-mode-on-hyper-v-2012-r2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/enhanced-session-mode-on-hyper-v-2012-r2/One of the new features or improved feature on Windows Server 2012 R2 is the enhanced session mode through virtual machine connection. Hyper-V and the Virtual Machine…Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-serverhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/server-management-and-automation-with-windows-server-2012-r2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/server-management-and-automation-with-windows-server-2012-r2/Datacenter infrastructure has become complex: Multiple industry standards are confusing hardware vendors, and customers are looking for guidance on how to best automate their…Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhyper-vrsathttps://azurecentric.com/posts/generation-2-virtual-machine-overview/https://azurecentric.com/posts/generation-2-virtual-machine-overview/Virtual machine generation determines the virtual hardware and functionality presented to the virtual machine. In Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 there are two supported…Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/system-center-2012-r2-infrastructure-overview/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverorchestratorapp-controllerscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/free-e-books-of-different-microsoft-technologies/https://azurecentric.com/posts/free-e-books-of-different-microsoft-technologies/Today I found, completely by accident I might add, a collection of free E-Book of different Microsoft Technologies.Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTcloudsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/whats-new-in-system-center-2012-r2-virtual-machine-manager/https://azurecentric.com/posts/whats-new-in-system-center-2012-r2-virtual-machine-manager/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…Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/overview-of-networking-with-windows-server-2012-r2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/overview-of-networking-with-windows-server-2012-r2/Windows Server 2012 R2 makes it as straightforward to manage an entire network as a single server, giving you the reliability and scalability of multiple servers at a lower…Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/overview-of-storage-with-windows-server-2012-r2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/overview-of-storage-with-windows-server-2012-r2/Storage solutions play a critical role in the modern datacenter. Windows Server 2012 R2 was designed with a strong focus on storage capabilities, from the foundation of the…Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverbackuphyper-vstoragehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/whats-new-in-windows-server-2012-r2-hyper-v/https://azurecentric.com/posts/whats-new-in-windows-server-2012-r2-hyper-v/During the last TechEd North America, Microsoft wraps off what will be the new Windows Server 2012 R2. The upgrade brings an impressive number of features as well as…Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/capacity-planner-for-hyper-v-replica/https://azurecentric.com/posts/capacity-planner-for-hyper-v-replica/Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 includes a new capability called Hyper-V Replica. Hyper-V Replica allows administrators to replicate their virtual machines from a primary…Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vcapacity-plannerhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/statistics-of-a-nic-teaming/https://azurecentric.com/posts/statistics-of-a-nic-teaming/If the UI window is sufficiently tall a statistics tile appears at the bottom of the Team tile and the Adapters and Interfaces tile. These statistics windows reflect the…Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverfailover-clusternic-teaminghyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/microsoft-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2012-cookbook/https://azurecentric.com/posts/microsoft-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2012-cookbook/I definitely recommend this book for who wants to know in deep System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SP1.Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTcloudscvmmsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/modifying-a-nic-team-through-gui-and-powershell/https://azurecentric.com/posts/modifying-a-nic-team-through-gui-and-powershell/Within the UI, modifications to the team can be done by selecting a team in the Team tile, right-clicking on the team, and selecting the Modify Team action. Selecting Modify…Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverfailover-clusterhyper-vpowershellnic-teaminghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-a-nic-teaming/https://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-a-nic-teaming/Both of these will cause the New Team dialog box to pop-up.Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhyper-vnic-teaminghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/scvmm-2012-sp1-update-rollup-2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/scvmm-2012-sp1-update-rollup-2/Yesterday Microsoft added Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager to System Center 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 2 release.Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/the-components-of-the-nic-teaming-management-ui/https://azurecentric.com/posts/the-components-of-the-nic-teaming-management-ui/The NIC Teaming management UI consists of 3 primary windows (tiles): The Servers tile The Teams tile The Adapters and Interfaces tileWed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhyper-vnic-teaminghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/windows-server-2012-nic-teaming-tools-for-troubleshooting/https://azurecentric.com/posts/windows-server-2012-nic-teaming-tools-for-troubleshooting/NIC Teaming and the powerful administration tools in Windows Server 2012 are very powerful tools that can be misused, misconfigured, and may cause loss of connectivity if the…Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhyper-vnic-teamingtroubleshootinghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/nic-teaming-on-virtual-machines/https://azurecentric.com/posts/nic-teaming-on-virtual-machines/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.Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-servernic-teaminghyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/management-tasks-for-hyper-v-replica/https://azurecentric.com/posts/management-tasks-for-hyper-v-replica/The Hyper-V Manager interface is used to manage standalone Hyper-V Primary, Replica servers, and the virtualized workloads running on those servers. The Failover Cluster…Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/troubleshooting-hyper-v-replica/https://azurecentric.com/posts/troubleshooting-hyper-v-replica/This section explains how to troubleshoot Hyper-V Replica. Use this guide when: You have problems with connectivity between Primary and Replica servers You have problems…Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicatroubleshootinghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/overview-of-nic-teaming-lbfo-in-windows-server-2012/https://azurecentric.com/posts/overview-of-nic-teaming-lbfo-in-windows-server-2012/NIC teaming, also known as Load Balancing/Failover (LBFO), allows multiple network adapters to be placed into a team for the purposes of bandwidth aggregation, and/or traffic…Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-servernic-teaminghyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/general-methodology-for-troubleshooting-hyper-v-replica/https://azurecentric.com/posts/general-methodology-for-troubleshooting-hyper-v-replica/4. Inspect the System Event Log on the Primary and Replica servers to determine if there is any failure condition associated with network functionality 5. Run the Hyper-V Best…Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/update-for-scvmm-2012-sp1-on-windows-server-2012/https://azurecentric.com/posts/update-for-scvmm-2012-sp1-on-windows-server-2012/If you are using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 (SCVMM) to manage storage and assign LUNS, there is a collection of updates that may improve this…Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/vlans-with-hyper-v-network-virtualization/https://azurecentric.com/posts/vlans-with-hyper-v-network-virtualization/Isolating different departments’ virtual machines can be a challenge on a shared network. When entire networks of virtual machines must be isolated, the challenge becomes even…Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vnetwork-virtualizationhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-failover-cluster-as-a-primary-or-replica-server/https://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-failover-cluster-as-a-primary-or-replica-server/Failover Clustering has proven its value in making virtualized workloads highly available. We saw this in Windows Server 2008 using Quick Migration and then in Windows Server…Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vfailover-clusterhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/enabling-a-virtual-machine-for-replication/https://azurecentric.com/posts/enabling-a-virtual-machine-for-replication/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…Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/configuring-and-managing-hyper-v-replica/https://azurecentric.com/posts/configuring-and-managing-hyper-v-replica/Hyper-V servers are managed locally using the Hyper-V Manager interface or remotely using the Hyper-V Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) or System Center Virtual Machine…Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/installation-process-of-hyper-v-replica/https://azurecentric.com/posts/installation-process-of-hyper-v-replica/Hyper-V Replica is installed as part of the Hyper-V Role.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-replica-powershell-cmdlets/https://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-replica-powershell-cmdlets/The following Hyper-V PowerShell cmdlets apply to Hyper-V Replica.Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicapowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/dynamic-optimization-on-scvmm-2012/https://azurecentric.com/posts/dynamic-optimization-on-scvmm-2012/SCVMM 2012 introduced the ability to constantly monitor and rebalance load on clusters by using “Dynamic Optimization”. How Dynamic Optimization works, will help understand its…Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverscvmmdynamic-optimizationhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/multitenant-security-and-isolation-with-hyper-2012/https://azurecentric.com/posts/multitenant-security-and-isolation-with-hyper-2012/Virtualized data centers are becoming more popular and practical every day. IT organizations and hosting providers have begun offering infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which…Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-replica-communications-architecture/https://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-replica-communications-architecture/The Hyper-V Replica communications architecture is implemented at the Hyper-V Replica Network transport layer. This layer provides a bi-directional transport channel based on…Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-replica-component-architecture/https://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-replica-component-architecture/As already mentioned, Hyper-V Replica is new functionality that is included as part of the Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2012. The main components are: Hyper-V Replica…Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/extending-the-hyper-v-extensible-switch/https://azurecentric.com/posts/extending-the-hyper-v-extensible-switch/Many enterprises need the ability to extend virtual switch features with their own plug-ins to suit their virtual environment. If you’re in charge of making IT purchasing…Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/enabling-the-firewall-rules-in-the-hyper-v-replica-server/https://azurecentric.com/posts/enabling-the-firewall-rules-in-the-hyper-v-replica-server/On a standalone Replica server, if Kerberos based authentication is used, follow these steps to make the required exception in the Windows Firewall: 1. Open Windows Firewall…Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/implementing-self-signed-certificates-in-hyper-v-replica/https://azurecentric.com/posts/implementing-self-signed-certificates-in-hyper-v-replica/The command installs a test certificate in the Personal store of the local machine and is saved as a file locally. The certificate can be used for both Client and Server…Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/share-nothing-live-migration-with-hyper-v-2012/https://azurecentric.com/posts/share-nothing-live-migration-with-hyper-v-2012/When you perform a live migration of a virtual machine between two computers that do not share an infrastructure, Hyper‑V first performs a partial migration of the virtual…Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThyper-vlive-migrationhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/mvmc-migrate-vmware-vms-to-hyper-v/https://azurecentric.com/posts/mvmc-migrate-vmware-vms-to-hyper-v/With Windows Server 2012 RTM version available for all customers around the world, there is great news for organizations that are looking for a way to migrate virtual machines…Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-replica/https://azurecentric.com/posts/hyper-v-replica/Beginning with Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V and Failover Clustering can be used together to make a virtual machine highly available and minimize disruptions. Administrators…Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/enabling-hyper-v-replica/https://azurecentric.com/posts/enabling-hyper-v-replica/Hyper-V Replica is implemented as part of the Hyper-V Role. The Hyper-V Role can be enabled on a standalone Hyper-V server or on servers that are members of a Failover Cluster.…Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/technical-overview-of-hyper-v-replica/https://azurecentric.com/posts/technical-overview-of-hyper-v-replica/To take advantage of the Hyper-V Replica, which is included as part of the Hyper-V server role, the following pre-requisites must be met: Hardware that supports the Hyper-V…Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/what-is-hyper-v-replica/https://azurecentric.com/posts/what-is-hyper-v-replica/Hyper-V Replica is new functionality added to the Hyper-V Role in Windows Server 2012. Hyper-V Replica enables organizations to implement an affordable Business Continuity and…Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-storage-migration-of-a-running-vm-works/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-storage-migration-of-a-running-vm-works/The process followed by Hyper-V internally to perform a storage migration is actually quite simple to explain and is as follows:Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMThyper-vvhdhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/what-is-the-replication-state-and-what-are-the-values/https://azurecentric.com/posts/what-is-the-replication-state-and-what-are-the-values/The table below captures the states as seen in WMI, UI and PowerShell.Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/storage-and-continuous-availability-enhancements-in-windows-server-2012/https://azurecentric.com/posts/storage-and-continuous-availability-enhancements-in-windows-server-2012/Windows Server 2012 will provide a continuum of availability options to protect against a wide range of failure modes in different tiers – storage, network, and compute. These…Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/why-is-the-hyper-v-replica-broker-required/https://azurecentric.com/posts/why-is-the-hyper-v-replica-broker-required/Hyper-V Replica requires the Failover Clustering role Hyper-V Replica Broker to be configured if either the primary or replica Hyper-V server is part of a cluster. This post…Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThyper-vhyper-v-replicahttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-create-a-cluster-in-a-restrictive-active-directory-environment/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-create-a-cluster-in-a-restrictive-active-directory-environment/In Windows Server 2012 there have been several enhancements to how Windows Server Failover Clusters integrate with the Active Directory. In this post we going to discuss some…Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverfailover-clusteractive-directoryhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-scvmm-2012-manage-storage/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-scvmm-2012-manage-storage/The key piece within the new storage architecture for SCVMM 2012 is the Storage Service. This service is part of SCVMM 2012 and will not be available separately. The storage…Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverscvmmstoragehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/what-is-a-cloud-for-it-pro/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMTcloudprivate-cloud