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 […]
Eliminate data silos with NFS 3.0 support for Azure Blob Storage https://ift.tt/3zKD6Cn Yuan Zheng joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demonstrate Blob storage support for the NFS 3.0 protocol, which enables you to run your applications on a single storage platform. With no application rewrites necessary you will also help eliminate data silos. [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:02:00]– […]
Azure AD Connect Incorrect version of TLS https://ift.tt/3DyHJSm So, I installed a brand-new Windows 2019 server where I wanted to install Azure AD Connect version 2.x. Or better, I wanted to upgrade an existing Azure AD Connect version 1.x server to version 2.x. After starting I got the following error message: This installation requires TLS […]
Cisco Catalyst 9100 series, much more than Wi-Fi connectivity https://ift.tt/3zEYOaR Are you one of those people who, when entering a new building (such as a hotel, corporate office, stadium, hospital—literarily any building) the first thing you do is look up to spot the presence of an access point (AP)? What? You don’t? You don’t know […]
