Virtual machines Archives - Thomas Maurer Cloud and Datacenter Blog focusing on Microsoft Azure Tue, 19 Jan 2021 08:15:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-icon1024-32x32.png Virtual machines Archives - Thomas Maurer 32 32 71605618 How to Reduce the Costs of your Azure IaaS VMs https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/01/how-to-reduce-the-costs-of-your-azure-iaas-vms/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/01/how-to-reduce-the-costs-of-your-azure-iaas-vms/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:17:15 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=13223 Azure Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offers significant benefits over traditional virtualization. With benefits like the possibility to quickly spin up a couple of virtual machine in any Azure region around the world whenever you need it, is pretty powerful. There are a lot more benefits to Azure IaaS virtual machines. However, that’s not part of this blog. …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/01/how-to-reduce-the-costs-of-your-azure-iaas-vms/feed/ 0 13223 Deploy and Install Windows Admin Center in an Azure VM https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/10/deploy-and-install-windows-admin-center-in-an-azure-vm/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/10/deploy-and-install-windows-admin-center-in-an-azure-vm/#comments Tue, 15 Oct 2019 07:09:29 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=13439 The great thing about Windows Admin Center (WAC) you manage every Windows Server doesn’t matter where it is running. You can manage Windows Servers on-prem, in Azure or running at other cloud providers. Now if you want to use Windows Admin Center to manage your virtual machines running in Azure, you can use either an …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/10/deploy-and-install-windows-admin-center-in-an-azure-vm/feed/ 1 Deploy and Install Windows Admin Center in an Azure VM - Thomas Maurer This blog post will show you how you can deploy and install Windows Admin Center in an Azure virtual machine (VM). Check it out! Access,Azure,Azure Cloud Shell,Azure VM,Cloud Shell,deploy,IaaS,install,Microsoft,PowerShell,Virtual machines,WAC,Windows Admin Center,Windows Server,Windows Server 2016,Windows Server 2019,Windows Admin Center Azure VM 13439 How to Save Money on Azure using Azure Reservations https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/09/how-to-save-money-on-azure-using-azure-reservations/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/09/how-to-save-money-on-azure-using-azure-reservations/#comments Thu, 05 Sep 2019 08:59:39 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=13191 I wanted to quickly share something which existing for quite some time but talking with customers still a lot of people don’t know about it yet. And since yesterday the Azure team also shared some news on it, so it is the perfect time to have a look at Azure Reservations (Azure Reserved VM Instances …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/09/how-to-save-money-on-azure-using-azure-reservations/feed/ 4 13191 Download Hyper-V Server 2019 now https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/06/download-hyper-v-server-2019-now/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/06/download-hyper-v-server-2019-now/#comments Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:41:54 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=12386 A lot of people have been waiting for this. After the release of Windows Server 2019 back in October 2018, you were able to download Windows Server 2019 Standard, Datacenter and Essentials. Today you can also download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019. This is the free version of the Hyper-V role which you can find in …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/06/download-hyper-v-server-2019-now/feed/ 3 12386 Generation 2 VM support on Azure – and why should I care? https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/06/generation-2-vm-support-on-azure-and-why-should-i-care/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/06/generation-2-vm-support-on-azure-and-why-should-i-care/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2019 06:30:51 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=12280 A couple of days ago Microsoft announced the public preview of Generation 2 virtual machines on Azure. Generation 2 virtual machines support a bunch of new technologies like increased memory, Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX), and virtual persistent memory (vPMEM), which are not supported on generation 1 VMs. But more on that later. What are …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/06/generation-2-vm-support-on-azure-and-why-should-i-care/feed/ 4 12280 Microsoft and Canonical create Azure optimized Ubuntu Kernel https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/09/microsoft-and-canonical-create-azure-optimized-ubuntu-kernel/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/09/microsoft-and-canonical-create-azure-optimized-ubuntu-kernel/#respond Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:40:51 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=8793 Ubuntu is a popular choice for Virtual Machines running on Microsoft Azure and Hyper-V. Yesterday Microsoft and Canonical that they will provide an Azure Tailored Kernel for Ubuntu. Microsoft and Canonical were already working on a lot of projects together, like Linux Containers on Windows using Docker, or the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Canonical, with …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/09/microsoft-and-canonical-create-azure-optimized-ubuntu-kernel/feed/ 0 8793 How to set up Nested Virtualization in Microsoft Azure https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/07/how-to-setup-nested-virtualization-in-microsoft-azure/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/07/how-to-setup-nested-virtualization-in-microsoft-azure/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:03:06 +0000 http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=8697 At the Microsoft Build conference this year, Microsoft announced Nested Virtualization for Azure Virtual Machines, and last week Microsoft announced the availability of these Azure VMs. Nested Virtualization allows you to run a hypervisor inside a virtual machine running on a hypervisor, which means you can run Hyper-V within a Hyper-V virtual machine or an …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/07/how-to-setup-nested-virtualization-in-microsoft-azure/feed/ 24 8697 Hyper-V gets Virtual Battery support https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/07/hyper-v-gets-virtual-battery-support/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/07/hyper-v-gets-virtual-battery-support/#comments Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:06:08 +0000 http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=8579 Last week Microsoft announced Windows 10 Insider Preview build 16215 which added a lot of new features to Windows 10. With Windows 8 Microsoft brought Hyper-V to the Windows Client Operating System, and with the Windows 10 Insider Program we can also see some Hyper-V preview features coming to live. Previously we could see feature like …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/07/hyper-v-gets-virtual-battery-support/feed/ 1 8579 Disaster recovery for Azure IaaS virtual machines using ASR https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/05/disaster-recovery-for-azure-iaas-virtual-machines-using-asr/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/05/disaster-recovery-for-azure-iaas-virtual-machines-using-asr/#respond Wed, 31 May 2017 19:34:13 +0000 http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=8556 Microsoft today announced the public preview of disaster recovery for Azure IaaS virtual machines. This is Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for the Azure-to-Azure scenario. With that, you can replicate Azure virtual machines (VMs) from one Azure Region to another Azure Region, without deploying any other infrastructure components such as software appliances. Cross-region disaster recovery (DR) feature …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/05/disaster-recovery-for-azure-iaas-virtual-machines-using-asr/feed/ 0 8556 PowerShell One-liner to list IP Addresses of Hyper-V Virtual Machines https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2016/07/powershell-one-liner-to-list-ip-addresses-of-hyper-v-virtual-machines/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2016/07/powershell-one-liner-to-list-ip-addresses-of-hyper-v-virtual-machines/#respond Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:41:21 +0000 http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=7912 Here a very quick PowerShell command to list all the Virtual Network Adapters, including IP Addresses of Virtual Machines running on a Hyper-V Host.   Get-VM -ComputerName "Hyperv01" | Get-VMNetworkAdapter This will give you a list of all Virtual Machines running on Hyper-V Server called “HyperV01”

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