Move Hyper-V VMs to another Disk Volume https://ift.tt/3kZfmo3 In my lab I use virtual machines a lot, and not surprisingly, sometimes I need to move around Hyper-V VMs to either a new disk volume, or just to a new folder on the same volume, because of disk space. Either way, with PowerShell that is a […]
SAP on Azure Network connectivity and Security https://ift.tt/3h0ifUe SAP on Azure Network connectivity and Security Authors: Abbas Ali Mir, Daniel Mauser and Madhuri Kaniganti Abstract SAP on Azure VMs Customer’s Networking and Security Requirements Customer SAP Landscape in Azure Customer Environment Proposed Architecture Solution SAP on Azure – VMs and HLI (Hana Large […]
Server roles for Azure SQL Database: Database Management without admin-access https://ift.tt/3yD2fgZ Server roles for Azure SQL Database: Database Management without admin-access Until now, in Azure SQL Database, to gain access to server-wide information like system-wide wait-stats, resource stats etc., the Server Admin or AAD Admin was the only account with sufficient permissions since server-level […]
General availability: Azure Route Server https://ift.tt/3BtylOa Azure Route Server simplifies dynamic routing between your network virtual appliance (NVA) and your virtual network. When you establish a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peering between your NVA and Azure Router Server, you can advertise IP addresses from your NVA to your virtual network. Your NVA will also learn […]
General availability: Azure Files supports storage capacity reservations for premium, hot, and cool tiers https://ift.tt/3h0Dl4U Storage capacity reservations for Azure Files enable you to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of storage by pre-committing to storage utilization. To achieve the lowest costs in Azure, you should consider reserving capacity for all production workloads. Azure […]
Storage Innovations in Windows Server 2022 https://ift.tt/3BJVTOK Storage Innovations in Windows Server 2022 We are excited to release new features in Storage for Windows Server 2022. Our focus is to provide customers with greater resiliency, performance, and flexibility. While some of these topics have been covered elsewhere, we wanted to provide a single place where […]
SMB Multichannel for Azure Files is generally available https://ift.tt/3gX63Uk Server Message Block (SMB) Multichannel enables SMB clients to establish multiple parallel connections to an Azure file share. This allows SMB clients to take full advantage of all available network bandwidth and makes them resilient to network failures, reducing total cost of ownership and enabling 2-3x […]
General availability: Azure Files now supports SMB 3.1.1 https://ift.tt/3kPbS7z Server Message Block (SMB) 3.1.1 is the most recent version of the SMB protocol, released with Windows 10, containing important security and performance updates. Azure Files SMB 3.1.1 ships with two additional encryption modes, AES-128-GCM and AES-256-GCM, in addition to AES-128-CCM which was already supported. In […]
Three ways to guesstimate your Veeam Backup for Office 365 repository size https://ift.tt/2WQmGKB As organizations embrace the full suite of Office 365 and intend to use Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, I often get the question on how to properly size the storage for the repository for Office 365 backups. There are, actually, three […]
How to install ESXi 7.0 U2 directly from an HTTP server via a UEFI HTTP boot https://ift.tt/3DKsrKf With ESXi 7.0 Update 2, VMware has introduced a new way to boot the ESXi installer by using native UEFI HTTP. What is it? It is a way to boot the ESXi installer over the network but without […]
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