There are several information which are required to make a reasonable sizing estimate for Azure VMs, and here is a comprehensive list which we used to follow from long time to get the reasonable T-Shirt sizing of the Azure VM’s. CPU utilization Memory Utilization Disk Size Disk IOPs (I/O’s per second) for C: drive and
Recently I was working in one of the Automation project where I had to run some Azure Runbooks in the on premise servers. Due to the security restrictions I was unable run those runbooks directly from the Azure automation account so I need to setup the Hybrid Worker Group in our environment. Today I will
Recently I have faced a strange issue with one of the WordPress web app hosted in Azure. It was very strange since some of the other WordPress sites hosted in the same subscription were working fine and the other .net web apps are also working fine. Since the issue was related to wrong configuration in
Recently in the Microsoft Ignite 2017, Microsoft has announced the availability of the PowerShell interface for the Cloud Shell. This is something which was long awaited after the launch of the Cloud Shell. Not too long ago whenever I used to try to open Cloud Shell after the creation of a default storage account, Cloud
Last week Microsoft Ignite 2017 has took place in Orlando and I was going through some of the sessions related to Azure for the last couple of days. Few of my colleagues has asked me about what is the biggest takeaway for the Azure Pre Sales folks from this biggest event in the Microsoft World
As we all know that WordPress is one of the most popular CMS (Content Management Systems) available in the world. It’s the no. 1 content management system where Joomla and Drupal comes distance 2nd and 3rd. More details about the CMS can be found here. As per the wordpress.org the WordPress websites contains around 25%
The Azure migration assessment is one of the mammoth task for most of the enterprises, who are planning to migrate their workloads to Azure. Now a days we are living in a world of very complex environments where most of the enterprises around the world have hundreds and thousands of virtual machines, physical boxes, applications
Azure is rapidly building a highly scalable Cosmos DB (Formerly known as document DB) driven public cloud, with strategic investments in tools and hires. It’s also running fast, launching new tools and services on a regular basis. At first, Azure was catching up with Amazon Web Services based Dynamo DB, but the release of the
If you are planning to meet your customer for a large transformation and migration deal with Azure offering, you are done with all your homework, presentation and ready to crack the deal, hold on… before you make any promises, please spend some time to check this 20 most helpful webpages or URL’s which may make
Dear friends, today I am going to show you how to add a non OS disk to the Azure VM in the fly without any downtime. I have a Windows VM, where I would like to add an additional disk. When I click on the this PC it was showing me only the OS disk
Dear Readers, my post in Feb. of 2017 ,about the head to head nomenclature comparison of Azure and AWS appeared in many web search but that was not the product catalogue based comparison it was more on service offering available that time. And now when we are at the end of Q3, here is my
Dear readers, in my today’s post I will show you how to create a site to site VPN connection for small office from Azure, for this setup I have deployed the VPN router called TPLINK TR-ER604W. There is no information available in the Azure website about the support of this router however I have decided
In my last post on August 31st 2017, I have shown you how to install ADFS server role in Windows 2016 Server, today I will write about one of the most discussed and little complex topic in the O365 world, the single sign on with the ADFS Server. Although some people may think it is complex however
Recently I have seen issues with the limitation of Azure Site Recovery and tried multiple ways to get it passed, later it became a road block to use ASR for migration of the large Oracle database servers. Here are the two major limitations of ASR which I have faced. ASR doesn’t support clustered disks. ASR
Dear friends if you already have an on premise SCOM infrastructure it’s good idea to leverage that infrastructure and connect with the Azure log analytics. Azure OMS log analytics gives extended capabilities to manage your on premise infrastructure. This allows you leverage the opportunities of OMS while continuing to use Operations Manager. If you are
Hi Friends, today I am going to show you how to install and configure the Active Directory Federation Services in Windows 2016 Server. I know there are many articles available in ADFS installation however you may like it since it’s a kind of re-installation of the ADFS role. As a pre-requisite we will go to
Dear Friends, I am sure you would like to have a direct URL for the Microsoft Azure Forums. Here is a direct to the Microsoft Azure Forum and this link includes all the forum posts for Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure Forums. In case you are interested in the Microsoft Skype For Business Forums here is
Azure Runbooks are part of Azure process automation. Today I will show you how we can create a runbook in the azure portal. First we will check how we can create a run book, in the first step we will search for Automation from Azure Market Place. The next step is to create an azure
Dear friends, in my last post related to SCOM I have discussed about managing the on premise computers with the help of SCOM Server 2016 and in my today’s post I would like to focus on managing Azure ARM based computers with the help of the SCOM Server 2016 which is available at the onsite
Azure Hybrid Identity is one of the most discussed topics in recent days and there are many frequently asked questions in the Azure world for this. Some of the most common questions which was asked and answered in various forums has been captured by me here. Q1. What is azure tenant? Ans: An Azure AD
Dear friends, in my last post related to SCOM I have discussed about the installation of SCOM Server 2016 RTM version and today I am going to add few computers for monitoring in the SCOM console. The first step will be to start with the SCOM Computer and Device Management Wizard. Once you start the
My company Unisys has been Awarded by Microsoft for Azure Innovation Partner of the Year for Driving 240 Percent Growth in use of leading cloud environment. Microsoft presented Unisys with the award during the 2017 Microsoft Inspire Conference in Washington, DC. The award recognizes the 240 percent growth in Microsoft Azure cloud usage Unisys has
Hello friends last time I have installed the SCOM Preview 3 on Windows 2016 Server, and this time I will go ahead and install the RTM version of the SCOM 2016 server which was released in Dec. 2016. Once you run the setup of the SCOM server you can find the following screen. There are
Dear friends today I have installed the SQL server always on at whyazure.in domain The prerequisite for this is the configuration of a windows cluster. The steps to configure a windows cluster I will discuss in another post. Once the windows cluster is created please install the SQL server standalone install. The details steps were
On 17th of July Eric Ligman has shared an URL to download free e-books, 2017 and this is 2nd time in row, last time he has published the e-book download URL in 2016. . This URL contains e-book in all the Microsoft Subjects. Anyone can download as many e-books they wanted and it’s really free.
Dear friends, today I will show you how to install the Root Certificate Authority Role in Windows 2016 Server. I am sure many of you who are Windows System Admins have installed this role many times in past on various versions of Windows Server. For myself also the story is also same, however this is
