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A few years back, I got the chance to do a StorSimple project with a customer. We installed the box, configured it, and the customer started using it. A teeny-tiny bit. Fast forward to this summer, and I’ve heard of several other customers with projects just like that. Why
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During the past year I’ve worked a lot with Cloud Solution Providers (CSP). A lot of them understand the concepts, but 1 thing seems to confuse people a lot: Azure AD Tenants What is a tenant? And why is it important for me as a CSP? Well, to understand
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I’ve been playing around with PowerBI for a while now, trying to build nice dashboards for my boss and accountant to show our Azure usage around the world. PowerBI a really powerful tool, to gain quick insights to your data, for example usage data which I used to handle
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Updated 13/6: VPN gateways and VM Scale Sets can be moved between subscriptions now. Setting the scene I’ve previously covered how to move Azure resources between Resource Groups, and how to migrate from Azure Service Management to Azure Resource Manager, so now it’s time to take the
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Update: This is now possible, yet billing issues might occur. See this post: https://cloudpuzzles.net/2016/12/update-asm-arm-migration-experience/ TL;DR: ASM to ARM to new subscription, is currently not possible without downtime. The rant: As you might know, a lot of stuff is going on in Azure. Not only
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Last week Microsoft announced public preview of VNet Peering feature. After some registration issues, I finally got through to try the feature today. Before diving into configuration, let’s take a look at what VNet Peering actually is, and what scenarios we can use it in. Until now, when we
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This morning I woke up to a nice email from Microsoft Azure. The occasional “pricing and services updates”. From time to time, some really awesome features shows up in these mails, and this one had more than one! VNet Peering This one has been on the drawing board for quite
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In my last post we talked about moving resources between gesource groups in Azure Resource Manager (ARM). But what if you are not yet using Azure Resource Manager, and instead is stuck on Azure Service Management (ASM), or as Microsoft tend to call it: Azure Classic? Well, you have some
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A nice new addition to Azure Resource Manager, is the ability to move Azure VMs, vnets and Storage Accounts between Resource Groups. We’ve had the ability to move resources for a long time, but only recently for the above resources. It’s important to note, that while you can
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***UPDATE – November 22nd 2016*** Microsoft just announced a single-instance SLA of 99,9%. To get this SLA, you need to deploy Premium Storage VMs. Very nice addition to Azure, since we can now get a financially backed SLA for applications that do not run in a multi-instance configuration. Links: https:
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Okay, time to get this series started again. Sorry for the delay, but it turns out moving to a new apartment took a bit more time and energy than expected 🙂 On the other hand, I have fiber at home now, so ASR will be way quicker 😉 This post will focus
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In the 2nd post of this series about Azure Site Recovery (ASR), we will create a new Recovery Services Vaults and go through the different settings we can configure here. Links to other posts in this series: Azure Site Recovery – Part 1 – Introduction Azure Site Recovery – Part 2 – Getting Started