Virtual Machines in Azure (IaaS) ; Azure Backup, Site Recovery & Batch
It’s finally here, it has arrived: Azure Virtual Network Service Endpoints. This was a long requested “Enterprise feature”. Let’s look at what this is and how to use it. Please note that at the time of this writing (end-of-September 2017) this feature is available only in a few region in Public Preview: Azure Storage: WestCentralUS, … More VNET Service Endpoints for Azure SQL & Storage
Azure Managed Disks (introduced in February 2017) simplified the way Virtual Machine disks are managed in Azure. A little known advantage of that resource is that it exposes its storage type, i.e. Standard vs Premium, as a simple property that can easily be changed. Why would we do that? Typically we’ll move from standard to … More Moving from Standard to Premium disks and back
I’m recurrently asked by customers similar questions around sizing & pricing of Virtual Machines (VMs), storage, etc. . So I thought I would do a reusable asset in the form of this article. This is especially important if you are trying to size / price VMs “in advance”. For instance if you are quoting some … More Sizing & Pricing Virtual Machines in Azure
UPDATE (23-06-2017): Fabio Hara, a colleague of mine from Brazil, has published the ARM template on his GitHub. This makes it much easier to try the content of this article. Thank you Fabio! We talked about Managed Disks, now let’s use them. Let’s create an image from an OS + Data disk & create a … More Creating an image with 2 Managed Disks for VM Scale Set
We talked about Managed Disks, now let’s use them. Let’s snapshot a Managed Disk and restore the snapshot on another VM. Deploy ARM Template We used the resource group named md-demo-snapshot. This deploys a single Linux VM into a managed availability set using a premium managed disk The deployment takes a few minutes Customize VM … More Taking a snapshot of a Managed Disk
We talked about Managed Disks, now let’s use them. Let’s migrate existing VMs from unmanaged to managed disks. Install pre-requisites Update your Microsoft Azure PowerShell to the latest bits in order to include Managed Disks functionalities Deploy ARM Template We used the resource group named md-demo-migrate. This deploys a few VMs (by default 3) into … More Migrating from unmanaged to managed disks
Microsoft released Azure Managed disk 2 weeks ago. Let’s look at it! What did we have until then? The virtual hard disk (.vhd file) was stored as a page blob in an Azure Storage account. That worked quite fine and Azure Disks are a little more than that. A little abstraction. But at the same … More Azure Managed Disk–Overview
