Monthly Archives: June 2017

Monitoring HDInsight Spark cluster on Azure with OMS

Today I would like to share the information with you on how to monitor an HDInsight Spark cluster on Azure with OMS. For this I just created an HDInsight Spark cluster with default settings and no further customization in my Azure subscription. After the successful creation, I looked into the solution gallery of my OMS workspace and had to recognize that only HDInsight HBase Monitoring (Preview) Read more [...]

Deletion of Azure Recovery Services Vault used for Azure SQL Database backups fails

Maybe you stumbled over this behavior. You are using a Recovery Services Vault to store Azure SQL Database backup for long-term retention. -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-long-term-retention When you have deleted the Azure SQL Database before you disabled the backup and now trying to delete the Recovery Services Vault, you will run into the following error. Currently, Read more [...]

Develop solutions for Azure Stack on Azure

If you want to develop solutions for Azure Stack in your Azure subscription, then have a look at the Azure Stack Policy Module. -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-stack/azure-stack-policy-module What does the Azure Stack Policy Module with your Azure subscription? The policy module will deploy and enable a set of Azure policies, so only Azure services and API versions supported Read more [...]

Does have ADE or SSE a performance impact on Azure IaaS VMs?

Before I begin to write about this topic, I want to clarify that the results are not an official statement by Microsoft. The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer’s view in anyway. Now we have clarified that, let us begin to talk about what ADE and SSE are in a short way. ADE stands for Azure Disk Encryption and is the volume-based encryption option Read more [...]