Azure
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Managing Azure Resources – A Primer
Let’s take a ground-level look at managing your resources in Azure. I want to introduce a few different methods to control your resources such as virtual machines, storage accounts, and anything that you keep within a resource group really. Let’s dive right in and find some different ways to work with and control our resources!
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Azure Updates – Number 1 – January 04, 2021
The first of an ongoing series with Azure updates in the areas of general updates, architecture, compute, and Azure Sentinel. Every two weeks I’ll aggregate a comprehensive list from many things Internet and post with links back to the resources. Bringing the many resources into one spot for Azure News to save you time!
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Azure Automation Account – Adding PowerShell to the Mix
Let’s take a look at adding Runbook to our Azure Automation account that we created in our last article together. Today, we’ll add a simple script as a runbook and see how to get it running in a simple way.
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Create an Azure Automation Account
Today we’re going to get ready to create some automation in Azure together. The end goal is to get ready to set some PowerShell scripting to follow a schedule and run entirely in Azure. We’ll start with the basics first and go from there. Let’s dive right in and get things started to run with…
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Using Azure Spot VM Instances – The Regional Quota Challenge
Microsoft Azure Spot VMs can represent significant savings to an organization when combined with good overall resource management practices. Today, let’s take a look at how to request an increase to your Spot VM regional limits. We will walk through how to create an Azure Support request to increase regional vCPU limits today. If you…
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Using Azure Spot VM Instances – The Quota Challenge
Today we take a deeper look at Spot VMs in Azure and how to request a quota limit increase for all virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. Spot VMs allow you to take advantage of unused capacity on Azure VM hosts at a significant cost savings in exchange for letting Azure remove VMs if a pay-as-you-go…
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Using Azure Spot Instances
Today we take a look at Spot VMs in Azure and what it’s all about. Spot VMs allow you to take advantage of unused capacity on Azure VM hosts at a significant cost savings; but there is a catch. Your VMs can be evicted if Azure needs the capacity back. This style of VM hosting…
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Move Azure Resources to a Different Region – Azure Resource Mover – Part 2
Continuing our Azure Resource Mover tutorial, we will pick up at the Initiate Move stage. This is Part 2 of 2 articles using Resource Mover to move a VM and associated bits to a new region. We are moving our demo VM from West Europe to East US, and it’s been going really well! We…
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Video – Setting up for a Demo with Azure CLI
Join me for a start to finish Azure CLI walk-through of creating resources to use for testing or doing a demonstration in Azure. I create a Debian and Windows Server VM in about 5 minutes then we clean everything up when we’re done. Let’s build some Azure resources together and see just how easy and…
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Move Azure Resources to a Different Region – Azure Resource Mover
Today we’ll take a look at how to use Azure Resource Mover to move a virtual machine with some supporting resources to a different region. Reasons to do this are to reduce cost of resources, move a VM to a region where other services it connects to are located, or because you need to have…