Azure Dedicated Hosts now provide support for Azure reservations https://ift.tt/33KTbsI Azure Dedicated Host provides a single-tenant physical server to host your Azure Virtual Machines for Windows and Linux. The server capacity isn’t shared with other customers. Run Lsv2, Msv2, Dasv4, and Easv4 Azure Virtual Machines on Dedicated Host. Purchase Azure reservations (1-year or 3-year […]

Azure Dedicated Host: New capabilities and benefits https://ift.tt/2xqM24u Late last year, we’ve announced the general availability of Azure Dedicated Hosts. This blog provides an update regarding the new and recently added capabilities since we introduced Azure Dedicated Hosts in preview. Azure Dedicated Host provides a single-tenant physical server to run your Azure Virtual Machines for […]

Plan migration of physical servers using Azure Migrate https://ift.tt/2TUI0cj At Microsoft Ignite, we announced new Microsoft Azure Migrate assessment capabilities that further simplify migration planning. In this post, I will talk about how you can plan migration of physical servers. Using this feature, you can also plan migration of virtual machines of any hypervisor or […]

Migrate your IaaS resources to Azure Resource Manager by March 1, 2023 https://ift.tt/3cdv21T Because Azure Resource Manager now has all the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) capabilities of Azure Service Management and new advancements, we’ll retire classic IaaS VMs on March 1, 2023. If you use IaaS resources from ASM, please complete […]

We’re retiring some Azure Site Recovery support options on March 1, 2023 https://ift.tt/380VBnq As we continue to invest in Azure Site Recovery (ASR) capabilities, we are going to focus our engineering efforts on disaster recovery to Azure scenarios. As a result, we will be retiring the following Azure Site Recovery protection scenarios on March […]

SQL Server runs best on Azure. Here’s why. https://ift.tt/2SrwBkN SQL Server customers migrating their databases to the cloud have multiple choices for their cloud destination. To thoroughly assess which cloud is best for SQL Server workloads, two key factors to consider are: Innovations that the cloud provider can uniquely provide. Independent benchmark results. What innovations […]

Azure Private Link is now generally available https://ift.tt/31TjXOJ Azure Private Link is now generally available. Azure Private Link is a secure and scalable way for you to consume services (such as Azure PaaS,  Partner Service, BYOS) on the Azure platform privately from within your virtual network. Private Link also enables you to create and […]

Announcing the preview of Azure Shared Disks for clustered applications https://ift.tt/3bztajn Today, we are announcing the limited preview of Azure Shared Disks, the industry’s first shared cloud block storage. Azure Shared Disks enables the next wave of block storage workloads migrating to the cloud including the most demanding enterprise applications, currently running on-premises on Storage […]

Azure Backup now supports Windows Server 2008 Virtual Machine backup https://ift.tt/31SGnQ3 You can now migrate your on-premises Windows Server 2008 to Azure, where you can continue to run and back them up on Azure virtual machines using Azure Backup. In Azure you’ll stay compliant, become more secure, and add cloud innovation to your work. […]