Posts, a podcast and video series about Microsoft Azure by Marcos Nogueira.https://azurecentric.com/https://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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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-recoveryhybrid