Azure Monitoring Cloud applications are complex with many moving parts. Monitoring provides data to ensure that your application stays up and running in a healthy state. It also helps you to stave off potential problems or troubleshoot past ones. In addition, you can use monitoring data to gain deep insights about your application. That knowledge […]
In this blogpost we will show how to enable the recovery vault and how to install the process server. Create the Recovery Vault In the portal, search for “recovery” and select following highlighted section: fill in the details: Open communication ports Before we continue, we need to make sure all required communication ports (443 & […]
Say What? Well, what I mean with this title is that we will move some resources from the classic Azure portal (ASM) to the new portal (ARM) with Azure Site Recovery (ASR). While doing this Proof of Concept, I also wanted to try out a few things that were on my Azure bucket list: – create […]
When you have VMs in Azure that are built outside of an Azure Vnet and you want to have that VM talking to another VM, or you need to set security boundaries, you will need to migrate this VM into an Vnet. In Azure (or even PowerShell), there is no option to link an existing networkless VM […]
Microsoft has decades-long experience building enterprise software and running some of the largest online services in the world. It has leveraged this to implement and continuously improve security-aware software development, operational management, and threat mitigation practices that are essential to the strong protection of data in the cloud. Security is built into Azure from the […]
It comes after an active week for Docker, which on Tuesday received a huge equity investment of $95 million, which the company said it will use in part to further its collaborations with partners including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and IBM. Microsoft also […]
Azure Upgrade and Fault domains As website admin I noticed that this particular blog post receives a lot of views and as this blog has been written 2 years ago it was time to provide an update 🙂 Azure provides an SLA of 99,9 on single instance VM’s on gold storage. For VM’s on standard […]
What is Nano server? Nano server is a new installation option in Windows Server vNext that provides the lowest possible Windows footprint possible, significantly smaller even than Server Core. This is possible through a significant refactoring of the operating system and is focused around two key scenarios: Born-in-the-cloud applications Cloud platform – Hyper-V and Scale-out File Servers […]
The Azure community just announced the capability to backup IaaS VMs using Azure Backup. With customers migrating their applications and entire virtual machines to Azure, the protection of customer data becomes a priority. With a few simple clicks in Azure Backup, you can now protect virtual machines. Feature Highlights Application-consistent backup of virtual machines Backup with […]