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Just a short post, to describe how we got around the limitations of CSP, at my job, and why we did it. We recently moved all our Azure consumption from an Enterprise Agreement to CSP. The reasons was quite simple: 1. EA doesn’t offer the same discounts anymore, and
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As you might know, Azure Site Recovery is a great Disaster Recovery solution for on-premises environments. You can use it on pretty much any server you have, ranging from VMware, physical servers and of course Hyper-V. A feature I have wished for since I started doing Azure, is the ability
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I just had a scenario, where a customer is using VMs in Azure, with Managed Disks. Now, due to different events, they wanted to move their VMs to a different region. Normally that’s an easy task, copying the blobs from one Storage Account to another. It’s actually the
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A new awesome Azure feature has seen the light of day: Azure Managed Disks Why is that so awesome? Because it makes storage for VMs so much easier! Today when you want to deploy a VM, you’ll need a Storage Account to put the VHDs in. Storage Accounts has
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For years we’ve been fighting the never ending battle, of having too many Domain Admins. Now we have a new battle to win: Stop the use of Subscription Admins in Azure! In my consultant role, I see Subscription Admin role being used much like Domain Admins group is. I
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I just recently started looking into Veeam Backup, and one of the first features I wanted to test out is the ability to restore Hyper-V VMs directly to Azure. I tested this with Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5, which was released recently. My Veeam server is connected to VMM
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A while ago I posted a little rant about the migration experience from ASM to ARM, when moving to a new subscription in the same flow: https://cloudpuzzles.net/2016/10/asm-to-arm-migration-and-fun-with-key-vault/ After working with support for a weeks, we finally made it through our migration. The solution involved support
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Unbox and rack it Unboxing the whole thing is probably the most time consuming part of the installation. A few pictures: As you can see, a physical StorSimple appliance has 2 controllers. These are based on Windows Server 2012 R2, in a failover cluster configuration. The update mechanism used, is
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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