Virtual Machine – Azure Centric

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...

March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 Azure Azure VMs Best Practices Microsoft Cloud Tutorial Virtual Machine Windows Server Windows Server 2016

Error 0x800F081F when adding features on Windows Server 2016 on Azure Virtual Machine

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....

October 16, 2019October 16, 2019 Azure Azure VMs Hybrid Cloud Subscriptions Tools Tutorial Virtual Machine Windows Server

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...

June 11, 2019February 11, 2020 Azure Azure Backup Azure Portal Azure VMs Backups Docker Linux Virtual Machine

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: Error Code UserErrorFsFreezeFailed Error Message...

April 11, 2019February 11, 2020 Azure Azure Backup Azure Compute Azure Portal Azure VMs Backups Virtual Machine

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...

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 Azure Azure Site Recovery Cloud Disaster Recovery Moving to Azure Series Virtual Machine Windows Server

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...

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019 Azure Azure Architecture Azure VMs Cloud Cloud Services Load Balanced Microsoft Cloud Virtual Machine

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...

January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 Azure Azure VMs Cloud PowerShell Virtual Machine

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...