Tag: Azure VM

Posted on May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 Azure Azure Compute Azure Updates Azure VMs Cloud Microsoft Cloud News Virtual Machine

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...

Posted on 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....

Posted on October 4, 2019May 11, 2020 Azure Backups Best Practices Cloud

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....

Posted on July 7, 2019February 11, 2020 Azure Azure Backup Azure VMs Backups Best Practices

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...

Posted on 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...

Posted on 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...

Posted on 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...

Posted on 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...

Posted on January 4, 2019March 27, 2019 Azure Azure VMs Cloud Linux Moving to Azure Series Virtual Machine Windows Server

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...

Posted on November 8, 2018January 18, 2019 Azure Azure Compute Azure Portal Azure VMs Cloud PowerShell Subscriptions Tutorial VHD Virtual Machine

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)....