Category: Azure Compute

Posted on July 12, 2017November 29, 2017 Azure Azure Compute Azure VMs PowerShell Tutorial Virtual Machine

Create AzureRM VM from existing VHD

While I was helping a costumer creating a Azure RM virtual machine from an existing VHD, I adapt one of my existing scripts, with some...

Posted on July 11, 2017March 26, 2018 ARM Templates Azure Azure Compute Azure VMs Best Practices PowerShell VHD Virtual Machine

Deploy a ARM VM using an existing VHD in Azure

Another day, one of my costumer wants to rebuild a virtual machine from the existing VHD and place on the new Resource Group and on...

Posted on April 17, 2017May 24, 2017 Azure Azure Compute Azure VMs Cloud Cloud Services Virtual Machine

The difference between Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services?

Azure offers several compute hosting options for integrating on-premises workloads in Azure.  On a previous post (see here), I described the difference between the both...

Posted on April 10, 2017May 17, 2017 Azure Azure Compute Azure Site Recovery Azure VMs Cloud Generation 2 Virtual Machine Hybrid Cloud Hyper-V Microsoft Cloud

How to move your workloads to Azure

When integrating your on-premises environment with Azure, you might want to use the lift-and-shift approach to migrate some of your existing workloads. There are several...

Posted on April 2, 2017May 5, 2017 ARM Templates Azure Azure Architecture Azure CLI Azure Compute Azure VMs High Availability PowerShell Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine Scalability in Azure – Part 1

You can provide automatic scalability for Azure VMs by using Azure VM scale sets. A VM scale set consists of a group of automatically provisioned...

Posted on March 6, 2017May 8, 2017 Azure Azure Compute Azure VMs Cloud Microsoft Cloud Virtual Machine

How to secure your Azure Virtual Machine

We know that Microsoft Azure offers several technologies that help to keep your data secure in use, in transit, and at rest. But what additional...

Posted on March 3, 2017May 8, 2017 Azure Azure Architecture Azure Compute Azure VMs Cloud High Availability Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Virtual Machines High Availability on Azure

In general, you want your Azure virtual machine environment to be resilient to hardware failures and maintenance events that might occur occasionally within the Azure...

Posted on March 1, 2017May 4, 2017 Azure Azure Compute Azure VMs Cloud Hybrid Cloud Microsoft Cloud PowerShell Virtual Machine

Using PowerShell to create VMs in Azure

There are several methods to deploy virtual machines on Azure. One of my favorite is using PowerShell. Using PowerShell to deploy VMs, gives you the...

Posted on January 7, 2017May 5, 2017 Azure Azure Compute Azure VMs Virtual Machine

Using Virtual Machine extensions to configure the OS on a VM

When deploying Azure VMs, in addition to configuring the platform-specific settings (such as Azure Storage or networking parameters), you can also configure the operating system...

Posted on December 24, 2016May 5, 2017 Azure Azure Compute Azure VMs Microsoft Cloud Virtual Machine

How to connect to a Virtual Machine on Azure?

Once you have created an Azure VM instance with the default settings, you will be able to connect to it. The connectivity method will depend...