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Microsoft Azure – Cross-premises connectivity with FortiGate
Last week I have implemented an Azure PoC at a customer site and was faced with the configuration of the S2S VPN tunnel between Azure and the on-premises site. You can check on the MSDN website which VPN devices are supported. -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj156075.aspx The customer is using a FortiGate as VPN device and as you…
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Microsoft Azure – VM Extensions are not installed
If you have a S2S VPN gateway connection between your on-premises and Microsoft Azure with a DNS server entry pointing to an on-premises DNS server you can experience the issue that the VM extensions are not installed. In the scenario you want to deploy a new VM in Azure, but the gateway connection between your…
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System Center 2012 R2 VMM – Network Configuration Script – Version 2.0
Last year I had published the first version of my Network Configuration Script for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/system-center-2012-r2-vmm-powershell-vmm-network-configuration-script/ Today I have added some additional configuration options and published version 2.0. With version 2.0 the PowerShell script supports the following options. Define the VM Network name for No isolation and VLAN based…
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Linux Deployment – WAP VM Role Gallery Item – Addition One
As I have mentioned it in my previous blog post about the Linux deployment of a Windows Azure Pack VM Role that I will test some more Linux distributions. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/linux-deployment-wap-vm-role-gallery-item/ I have tested four new Linux distributions now. fedora 21, Oracle Linux 6.6, openSUSE 13.2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12. Have a look…
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Book review – Hyper-V Best Practices
During the holidays I had the time to review the new book “Hyper-V Best Practices” written by my MVP colleague Benedict Berger. First of all the book is divided into eight chapters. Chapter 1: Accelerate Hyper-V Deployment Chapter 2: High Availability Scenarios Chapter 3: Backup and Disaster Recovery Chapter 4: Storage Best Practices Chapter 5:…
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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…