Category: General
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Azure / Azure Stack – IaaS VM ARM Network Security Group
An important feature in the new Azure Resource Manager API for Virtual Machine Services are the Network Security Groups. But why are they so important? At the end of June Microsoft announced the general availability for the Azure Virtual Machine services in Azure Resource Manager and with this announcement the new Azure VM services will…
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Azure Site Recovery InMage Scout with VMware Series – Windows Master Target Installation
In the first blog post of this series I have given you an overview of the InMage Scout architecture. For a short recap of what the Master Target is read the following lines. The Master Target is used as repository and for retention. The Process Server sends its data of the Protected VM to the…
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MVP Award – System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management for the third time
Today I received the most important email in the year and I got the MVP award in the expertise area System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management for the third time in a row. I am totally happy and feel very honored! Ahead with Windows Server 2016, System Center 2016 and Microsoft Azure Stack it will…
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Cross-forest Shared Nothing Live Migration
Last week I had a very interesting case at a customer and previously I thought it was really easy to do. Yes it is easy, when you know how to deal with it and before I forget it I will write it down now. So what was the case? I had a Windows Server 2012…
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Converting Virtual Hard Disks between different Hypervisor
Twitter is an awesome social media tool to get the most recent IT news. During this week I saw a tweet by Ben Armstrong recommending a very nice tool for converting virtual hard disks. -> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2015/06/22/handy-tool-for-converting-kvm-vmware-images-to-hyper-v.aspx Honestly I have to say that I have been waiting for such a handy tool for a long time…
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Azure Site Recovery InMage Scout with VMware Series – Configuration
When you have installed the Configuration Server, the Process Server and the vContinuum server you can now move on with the initial configuration of your InMage Scout installation. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/azure-site-recovery-inmage-scout-with-vmware-series-overview-introduction/ -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/azure-site-recovery-inmage-scout-with-vmware-series-configuration-server-installation/ -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/azure-site-recovery-inmage-scout-with-vmware-series-process-server-installation/ -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/azure-site-recovery-inmage-scout-with-vmware-series-vcontinuum-installation/ Log in into your Azure subscription, navigate to the Azure Site Recovery vault and download the vault registration key.…