Reading Time: 4 minutes In this article, I am going to show you what I use to alert on when server disk space drops below a certain amount. You could use any normal server monitoring tool for this, but as my servers are in azure and have the Azure monitoring agent installed already, I Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently I needed to move a VM from one vNet to another. There are a few ways to do this, but for me, as the VM was not critical, I was able to stop it, then delete it, and then recreate it using the Managed Disk. Below I will go Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes At work, I am using a few B-Series VMs in Azure. For what we use them for, they are mostly ok until recently. One of my VMs started to get sluggish and when checking, I could not see much wrong with it. The VM in question was running with the Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes On March 13th, 2018 Microsoft introduced the ability to backup Virtual Machines with disks bigger than 1TB. Unfortunately, they did not enable this feature by default and you have to upgrade your VM backup stack. Luckily this is easy to do and does not impact your current backup jobs. You Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes One big limitation you may encounter when dealing with Microsoft Azure is the ability to change an Azure Virtual Machines Availability Set configuration. This includes adding an existing VM to an Availability Set, move a VM from one Availability Set to another, and removing a VM from an Availability Set. Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this article, I am going to walk through how to setup an Azure Load Balancer to allow you to connect to multiple VM’s using just one public IP address. The benefits of this, are not only the small cost saving but it also gives us better security due to Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes In this article, I am going to show you how to create a basic Azure VM. How to Create a Windows VM in Azure Log in to your Azure Subscription by going to https://portal.azure.com Click the green + and then Search for Windows Server Click the version of windows you Read more…