Azure IaaS Archives - Thomas Maurer Cloud and Datacenter Blog focusing on Microsoft Azure Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:01:29 +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 Azure IaaS 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 How to Reset RDP and Admin Password of an Azure VM https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/12/how-to-reset-rdp-and-admin-password-of-an-azure-vm/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/12/how-to-reset-rdp-and-admin-password-of-an-azure-vm/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2019 08:05:02 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=13212 I think we all had that experience where we suddenly couldn’t use Remote Desktop Services (RDP) to access our Windows Server anymore. Luckily, if this happens to an Azure virtual machine (VM), we can use the VMAccess extension to reset the RDP configuration as well as the password of the Azure VM. You can reset …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/12/how-to-reset-rdp-and-admin-password-of-an-azure-vm/feed/ 5 13212 How to manage Azure VMs with Windows Admin Center https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/10/how-to-manage-azure-vms-with-windows-admin-center/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/10/how-to-manage-azure-vms-with-windows-admin-center/#comments Tue, 22 Oct 2019 07:06:27 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=13421 Windows Admin Center is a browser-based management tool to manage your servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure, and Windows 10 PCs. You can deploy it anywhere you want. If you run on-prem, you can install it on a Windows Server running in your infrastructure, or you can also install Windows Admin Center on an Azure virtual machine …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/10/how-to-manage-azure-vms-with-windows-admin-center/feed/ 3 How to manage Azure VMs with Windows Admin Center - Thomas Maurer I am going to show you, how you can manage Azure VMs with your on-premises Windows Admin Center (WAC) gateway. Check out the full blog post! Azure,Azure IaaS,Azure Network Adapter,Azure VM,Management,Microsoft,Server,Windows,Windows Admin Center,Windows Server,Windows Server 2019,Azure VMs Windows Admin Center 13421 How to Manage Updates for Azure IaaS VMs https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/10/how-to-manage-updates-for-azure-iaas-vms/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/10/how-to-manage-updates-for-azure-iaas-vms/#comments Tue, 08 Oct 2019 07:06:54 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=13200 As a lot of customers are moving their workloads to Azure and specifically moving virtual machines to Azure Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), the question is how do I manage my Azure virtual machines (VMs) efficiently. The great thing about Azure IaaS, it is not just another virtualization platform. Azure IaaS also offers a lot of other benefits …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/10/how-to-manage-updates-for-azure-iaas-vms/feed/ 8 13200 Azure Bastion – Private RDP and SSH access to Azure VMs https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/06/azure-bastion-private-rdp-and-ssh-access-to-azure-vms/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/06/azure-bastion-private-rdp-and-ssh-access-to-azure-vms/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:46:22 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=12390 Azure Bastion is a new service which enables you to have private and fully managed RDP and SSH access to your Azure virtual machines. If you wanted to access your Azure virtual machines using RDP or SSH today, and you were not using a VPN connection, you had to assign a public IP address to …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/06/azure-bastion-private-rdp-and-ssh-access-to-azure-vms/feed/ 22 12390 Join me for a Azure IaaS Masterclass Webinar! https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/02/join-me-for-a-azure-iaas-masterclass-webinar/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/02/join-me-for-a-azure-iaas-masterclass-webinar/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:16:46 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=11687 This Wednesday, Altaro have invited me to give a webinar on Infrastructure as a Service with Microsoft Azure and you’re invited – it’s free to join! Implementing Infrastructure as a Service is a great way of streamlining and optimizing your IT environment by utilizing virtualized resources from the cloud to complement your existing on-site infrastructure. …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/02/join-me-for-a-azure-iaas-masterclass-webinar/feed/ 1 11687 Webinar: Journey to the Clouds – Masterclass on Cloud Migration https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/06/webinar-journey-to-the-clouds-masterclass-on-cloud-migration/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/06/webinar-journey-to-the-clouds-masterclass-on-cloud-migration/#respond Wed, 06 Jun 2018 08:32:51 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=9553 Together with Altaro and my MVP colleagues Andy Syrewicze and Didier Van Hoye, I will be part of a free webinar called Journey to the Clouds- Masterclass on Cloud Migration. In this webinar we will dicsuss differnent cloud scenarios. There are two options available depending on which time zone you are in. Session 1: 2pm CEST – 5am …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/06/webinar-journey-to-the-clouds-masterclass-on-cloud-migration/feed/ 0 9553 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 Windows Azure Pack – Virtual Machine Cloud https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2014/03/windows-azure-pack-virtual-machine-cloud/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2014/03/windows-azure-pack-virtual-machine-cloud/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:17:50 +0000 http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=6159 One of the big features of Windows Azure Pack right now is the integration of a Infrastructure as a Service offering or in other words Virtual Machine Cloud. VM Cloud allows you to integrate your existing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 and Hyper-V environment over SPF (Service Provider Foundation) API, so you can create a …

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