Month: March 2018

Ever since I started working on the Virtual Machine (VM) platform in Azure, there has been one feature request that I consistently hear customers asking for us to build. I don’t think words can describe how excited I am to announce that today we are launching the public preview of Serial Console access for both Linux and Windows VMs. Managing and running virtual machines can be hard. We offer extensive tools to help you manage and secure your VMs, including patching management, configuration management, agent-based scripting, automation, SSH/RDP connectivity, and support for DevOps tooling like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet. However, we have learned from many of you that sometimes this isn’t enough to diagnose and fix issues. Maybe a change you made resulted in an fstab error on Linux and…

Azure Automation For Azure IAAS enthusiasts, Microsoft has provided a platform to automate all the azure services using powershell. The language is tweaked and used as “powershell workflow”. Why to Use Reducing Manual Effort and help in consistent testing Managing resources (deployment/VM’s etc) How to Use Create a powershell workflow in azure web portal and execute it. Runbook Deployment and execution of tasks written in PowerShell. Provisioning/Deployment/Maintenance/Monitoring. Things to know! Automation Account – A dedicated account to perform runbook design/execution/management. Asset – Global resources used by runbooks to assist in common tasks and value specific operations Windows PowerShell Workflow – Implementation of azure automation using PowerShell Workflows. Workflow is a group of individual steps performing an action. Management Certificates – Authenticate azure resources for azure automation in an azure subscription.…

High-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and visualization GPUs have a wide variety of uses. That’s why Microsoft has partnered with NVIDIA to bring a wide variety of NVIDIA GPUs to Azure. Join us in San Jose next week at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference to learn how Azure customers combine the flexibility and elasticity of the cloud with the capability of NVIDIA’s GPUs. At Booth 603, Microsoft and partners will have demos of customer use cases and experts on hand to talk about how Azure is the cloud for any GPU workload. We will have demos from our partners at Altair, PipelineFX, and Workspot. In addition, you can learn about work we’ve done in oil & gas, automotive, and artificial intelligence. Partner and customer sessions in the conference program include: Transforming the…

As a Microsoft Partner Network member, are you looking to build your technical capabilities for Application Innovation? Learn first-hand from a Microsoft Partner Technical Consultant during a live, interactive technical webinar where you can ask questions as you learn! Best part? There is no cost to MPN members! There’s more… while technical webinars are the foundation to building your technical skillset, you have a few other options to engage with Microsoft technical experts: Dev Chat – chat live to get the technical tips you need to get started and successfully build Office 365 or Azure apps and get answers to quickly resolve programming questions regarding the capability and services (available in English and Mandarin only) – available at no cost to Network, Action Pack, Silver and Gold MPN partners Technical…

As a Microsoft Partner Network member, are you looking to build your technical capabilities for Cloud Infrastructure & Management? Learn first-hand from a Microsoft Partner Technical Consultant during a live, interactive technical webinar where you can ask questions as you learn! Best part? There is no cost to MPN members! There’s more… while technical webinars are the foundation to building your technical skillset, engage with a Partner Technical Consultant through a one-to-one technical consultation to receive technical guidance through virtual white-boarding, architecture reviews and shadowing of real-world scenarios by leveraging your MPN technical presales and deployment benefits. Learn more about the technical journey available for Cloud Infrastructure & Management to help you as you get started, grow your practice or optimize your practice – get started! Register today for an…

Hello Microsoft Cloud Partners! One of the first services that we see a lot of partners and customers getting started with in Azure is Azure Backup.  I recorded a quick video to give an introduction and overview of Azure Backup.  I cover the value proposition, current capabilities, and how you can price an Azure Backup solution using the Azure Pricing Calculator.  Hope you find this video helpful and happy selling! Reference: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/uspartner_ts2team/2018/03/19/introduction-to-azure-backup/

This article describes the architecture used when you replicate, fail over, and recover Azure virtual machines (VMs) between Azure regions, using the Azure Site Recovery service. Note Azure VM replication with the Site Recovery service is currently in preview. Architectural components The following graphic provides a high-level view of an Azure VM environment in a specific region (in this example, the East US location). In an Azure VM environment: Apps can be running on VMs with managed disks or non-managed disks spread across storage accounts. The VMs can be included in one or more subnets within a virtual network. Azure to Azure replication Replication process Step 1 When you enable Azure VM replication, the following resources are automatically created in the target region, based on the source region settings. You…