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Microsoft Azure Site Recovery – Hyper-V on-premises to Azure
Microsoft is investing a lot in its DR solution Azure Site Recovery. The newest public GA announcement is about the DR scenario on-premises to Azure. Since mid-December 2014 Azure Site Recovery does not rely anymore on VMM to enable the on-premises to Azure scenario. All you need is a Hyper-V host or cluster and an…
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Microsoft Azure – Windows Server 2012 R2 VM not activated
I had a strange situation last week. I deployed two Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter VMs in Azure and tried out the new management experience through the preview portal. At the same time I had done some VM configurations in the current portal. Maybe that was the reason why one of the VMs became not…
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Windows Azure Pack with Azure – Konube Integrator
The Windows Azure Pack gives you the possibility to provide Azure services out of your own datacenter to your customers or internal business units. The most common services in an on-premises environment are VM clouds and SQL servers. You can also provide your customers with Website clouds, Service Bus clouds and MySQL servers. But when…
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System Center 2012 R2 Service Reporting – Troubleshooting
In an IaaS deployment with Hyper-V, System Center 2012 R2 VMM, Operations Manager, SPF & Windows Azure Pack the most difficult and annoying part is to setup and configure Service Reporting for the chargeback. It is kind of exhausting getting Service Reporting up and running. But keep calm and continue reading. First let us assume you…
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Microsoft Azure IaaS Cost Estimator Tool Version 1.1 available
This week Microsoft has published the version 1.1 of its Microsoft Azure IaaS Cost Estimator Tool. -> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43376 You can analyze your on-premises infrastructure with the Microsoft Azure IaaS Cost Estimator Tool and get an estimated view about the workload costs in Azure for this on-premises infrastructure. The tool runs against SCVMM, Hyper-V, VMware vCenter,…
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Microsoft Technical Summit 2014 Sessions online available
The Microsoft Technical Summit 2014 took place in Berlin from 11th November till 13th November and the sessions are now available through Channel 9. Most of the sessions are in German and only a few in English. -> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/microsoft-techncial-summit/Microsoft-Technical-Summit-2014 I had a session also as I mentioned it in my recap last week. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/microsoft-technical-summit-2014recap/…