All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Data Box Disk Overview I have written in the past on the considerations of using Data Box for offline data transfers into Azure or using online methods, which was primarily focused on Data Box Heavy. Here I am going to walk through the process of obtaining a Data Box, specifically a Data Box Disk (see […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Part 5, the end of the series! This has been a fun series to write, and I hope it was helpful to some of you. The impetus for this whole thing was the number of times I’ve been asked how to setup shared storage between systems (primarily VMs) in Azure. As we’ve covered, you can […]
Reading Time: 8 minutes Welcome to Part 3 of this 5-part Series on Shared Storage Options in Azure. In this post I’ll be covering Azure Storage Services. You may be thinking to yourself, wait a minute, what have we been talking about this whole time then? Azure Storage Services is easiest thought of being the term used for the […]
Reading Time: 9 minutes Recently, I posted the “Shared Storage Options in Azure: Part 1 – Azure Shared Disks” blog post, the first in the 5-part series. Today I’m posting Part 2 – IaaS Storage Server. While this post will be fairly rudimentary insofar as Azure technical complexity, this is most certainly an option when considering shared storage options […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes In an IaaS world, shared storage between virtual machines is a common ask. “What is the best way to configure shared storage?”, “What options do we have for sharing storage between these VMs?”, both are questions I’ve answered several times, so let’s go ahead and blog some of the options! The first part in this […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’re like many others, over the past few months you’ve noticed that if you configure Azure Backup, you can’t delete the vault for 14 days until after you stop backups. This is due to Soft Delete for Azure Backup. It doesn’t cost anything to keep those backups during that time, and it’s honestly a […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Azure storage is great. Good thought to open on right? Of course! This year Azure graced us with the ability to (preview) the new Azure Archive Storage. Obviously this is enticing, especially at it’s (current) $0.0018/GB price point. For more cost informaiton on Azure Archive Storage you can visit the link below. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/ Now this […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have an environment that heavily leverages DFS, and recently one of the replication member servers had to be restored from a VEEAM backup. Typically VEEAM is great and doesn’t cause any issues, in this case though DFS completely broke. I got a TON of SCOM alerts, and the event log was littered with them […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in the classic portal with backup services it was an easy fix. Simply change the settings value of storage replication type. I’ve recently started moving my workloads to recovery serveries vaults in ARM, and noticed something peculiar. By default, the storage replication type of the vault is GRS. If your needs require geographically […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Something that I’ve noticed not a lot people know, is how to get your disk performance to show up on a server’s task manager. Yes, yes, I know. With the new Microsoft model you shouldn’t be RDP’ing to servers anyways — but I still get asked how to do this. For some reason they have […]
