All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 4 minutesOverview: In most cases when we talk about Azure Architecture, we end up talking about Availability Sets, Availability Zones, or Multi-Region Architectures for redundancy and business continuity. Even though we can be inside the 2ms latency envelope within a specific zone, there are cases where applications are incredibly latency sensitive and even a millisecond of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesI often find myself having to do a lot of editing of both video and screenshots when using the Azure Portal and I wanted to write a short blog post about this very handy extension I’ve been using recently. The Azure Mask Extension is an open-source tool written by Brian Clark, it works by masking […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast week , Azure Front Door Premium went into Public Preview. While this did bring about some other cool features and integrations, the one I’m most excited about today is the integration with Azure Private Link. This now allows Azure Front Door to make use of Private Link Services (not endpoints, which is what most […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesPart 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: 9 minutesRecently, 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: 3 minutesThis post won’t be too long, but I wanted to expand a bit on the recent repo that I published to Github for Azure Load Balanced DNS Servers. I’ve been working in Azure the better part of a decade and the way we’ve typically approached DNS is in one of two ways. Either use (a […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes*Edit* 6/9/20: At the time of writing this blog custom roles were not available in the Azure Portal. Since that feature now exists, I’ve added how to create this role through the portal to the end of this blog. We all know that cloud environments are different than on premises. Development environments can be even […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesBack 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: 3 minutesEDIT: If you liked this post, I’ve updated my process a little bit and written a script to automate a good chunk of this! Go check out Part 2 of this blog! http://hansencloud.com/2014/10/03/how-to-mount-your-onedrive-as-a-local-mapped-drive-part-2/ OneDrive is an online storage system by Microsoft that is included when you have an email account such as @live.com […]
