I have received another Global Award in the Azure Migration Project from Unisys Today. Thanks to the entire team who have closely worked with me. A snap while discussing a few migration experiences at the Global Award Program Stage. For a few of the followers who have requested me why no new posts in March.
At last another most awaited feature is enabled now for the Azure VM, it now enables you to reboot your VM from within the console experience. This ability will help you if you want to reboot a stuck VM or enter the boot menu of your VM. I have just tested it with one of
Yesterday Microsoft has released new features for the Azure Disaster Recovery Services. The following disaster recovery support are available now: Azure VMs in availability zones Encrypted VMs VMs using accelerated networking VMs using Storage Spaces Direct VMs using Standard Solid State Drive (SSD) disks Unmanaged VMs using firewall-enabled storage accounts New Linux versions A new
Azure File Sync has became a mega hit among all the recent infrastructure solutions provided by MS Azure, many enterprise are already moving their File Servers to Azure File Share and DFSR is widely replaced by Azure File Sync. But there are another side of it, you may face multiple errors while you move your
Hello Friends, from this month onwards, I will write about the few interesting Tips & Ticks which may help you in your day to day Azure deployments. I think you might have faced situation where you need to isolate the VM from the production or QA network for the troubleshooting purpose. This is mostly required
Many enterprises users across the globe were unable to sign into Microsoft Azure and Office 365 on Monday, as the result on ongoing multi-factor authentication (MFA) issues. The problem, which arose in the early hours of Monday morning and remains unresolved. As per the last update Engineers have explored mitigating a back-end service via deploying
There are lots of different types of logs generated in Azure, it’s very much confusing when you don’t know which logs to use for monitoring your resources and how to access them. Logs contain different kinds of data organized into records with different sets of properties for each type. Logs can contain numeric values like
There is no blog post in Why Azure from last one month and many people have contacted me for this. Actually, I was on vacation so didn’t get the time to write. PowerShell on CloudShell is now available in GA and it was announced in the Ignite 2018, the interesting fact is that it’s running
For the admins who are still thinking to replace their large file servers DFSR replication with Azure File Sync may hit a bottleneck if they do not have done the advance planning. Recently we have encountered an issue as you can see below, we have faced this issue when we have tried to run a
MS Ignite 2018 conference, has ended last week at Orlando, Florida. Similar to my last year post after the ignite, I thought to choose my top two takeaway from Ignite this year as well. Image: Orlando, Florida. Microsoft Ignite Venue. Last year after the end of Ignite 2017, I have posted details about Cloudnyn, which
Picture Credit: Pexels.com Almost a year back in the 17th of Sept. 2017, in one of my blog post, I have shown you how to add a disk to the Azure VM without any downtime,If you want to read more about that post you can click here. Today I have received a requirement where I
Picture Credit: Pexels.com Recently MS has introduced the upgradation of the storage account from GPv1 to GPv2, and there are many storage accounts which we have upgraded to version 2.0 so that we can schedule the backup of the file share in those storage accounts within the recovery services vault instead of using PowerShell scripts
For the last few days there were speculations about my 100th post in my blog, since I have not posted for almost two weeks now, few of my close friends and followers also have asked me about my next post as well. Bringing to an end to the speculation, today I am publishing my 100th
Large file copying from on-premises to Azure still remains a challenge and migration experts need to do multiple tests to get into the conclusion that which tool they are going to use. One of the main reason for this is that the application outage calculation entirely depends on the time to copy TB’s of data.
If you are regular follower of my blog, you must be aware that recently I got an opportunity to attend the Data Platform Summit (On Microsoft Data Stack) which was held in between 9th to 11th Aug. 2018, at Hotel Radisson Blue, Bangalore. Overall the #DPS summit was very good and I able to cover
SQL Server Managed instances are going to be the next big thing in the SQL server world. Currently, it’s in preview and promises a lot to offer. After this offering will come into GA, I hope we can witness many migrations from SQL server VM to SQL Server Managed Instances. Now if you are new
It’s always recommended to check Azure Resource Health before doing any further troubleshooting. I am giving you two interesting examples which we have seen in the past. Recently few DBA’s has complained about the slow running of the SQL queries in some of our large ERP databases for some of the day in a week.
I will be attending the data platform summit 2018 #DPS10, which is going to be started from tomorrow. This summit will be held for three days at Hotel Radisson Blue at the outer ring road, Bangalore. 3 Days of Conference, 7 Tracks, 30+ Technologies, 50+ Speakers, 90+ Subjects, 100+ Sessions, 300+ Companies, 1000+ Attendees &
As an Azure Pre Sales or Delivery Architect, there must be lots of pressure on you to find various ways to save/reduce the cost/spend in the cloud. Your KPI and KRA may be also integrated with the cost savings which you can show at the end of the year. How to save the operational cost
Just after 1 year and 7 months of its launch, today my blog on Microsoft Azure has crossed 200000 (2 Lacs) visitors. I would like to thanks all the Microsoft Azure enthusiastic who have spent their valuable time in reading my blog posts. When I have started writing in Jan. 2017 I have never thought
Since Azure File Sync which is currently on GA you can upgrade your old agents in your Azure or On-Premise servers. It’s also very easy to do that and can be done by following few steps which I will show you. Upgradation Steps: Go to the Windows server 2016 or Windows Server 2012 R2 where
PowerShell 6 was in GA last January and many of us has already started working with it and the below news was really big leap for the PowerShell lovers. And the good news is that PowerShell 6.0 is also supported in Linux. For the one who have missed the release of the PowerShell 6 can
MS has released three beta exams for the MS Azure on July 16th. You can try them if you have time. They are listed as follows: AZ-100: Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Deployment (beta) AZ-101: Microsoft Azure Integration and Security (beta) AZ-102: Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Transition (beta)
I think many of you have seen the power of Azure File Sync, I thought to write an article on Azure File Sync for many days but unable to work on it due to various other assignments. Also we are long waiting for some of the changes which were needed for AFS and recently added
Picture Credit: Royalty Free Pictures from Pexeles.com The Azure Resource Manager model has come up with the option to upgrade to VM Backup Stack V2. There are many salient features of the VM Backup Stack V2 , the main price point I believe is the ability to take the snapshot backup of the disks up
Recently I have been asked by few people about the Azure VM charges. Let’s see how Azure Bill for the VM. Please note that when a new VM spin-up Azure starts charging for the following meters. Compute hours IP Address hours (if the Public IP is static) Data Transfer Out (it’s about the data get
Azure Platform guys are again in dilemma with the new release of the Standard SSD Disks. This new disk offering combines the elements of Premium SSD Disks and Standard HDD Disks to form a cost-effective solution. They need to change their storage plans again in the regions where it will be currently supported or soon
