Tag: IaaS
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Azure Security Center – keep your Azure VMs up to date
Actually the Azure Security Center is in public preview, but nevertheless it is a very useful extension to the existing Azure services. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-security-center-now-available/ First of all you have to define the security policy for your subscription. Afterwards the Azure Security Center will install the data collection agents on your Azure VMs. Now you have…
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Azure IaaS ARM Template – Enable Boot Diagnostics per Default
One great thing Microsoft had introduced last year to the Azure platform was the boot diagnostics capability. Looking at an ARM template you can add the following lines to the VM definition to activate the boot diagnostics for your VM per default. “diagnosticsProfile”: { “bootDiagnostics”: { “enabled”: “true”, “storageUri”: “[concat(‘http://’,parameters(‘newStorageAccountName’),’.’, parameters(‘blobStorageEndpoint’))]” } } Have a…
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Azure IaaS ARM Template – Installing BGInfo VM Extension
When you want to install the BGInfo VM extension during the Azure VM deployment through an ARM template, then you have to add the following lines to your template. { “apiVersion”: “2015-06-15”, “type”: “Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions”, “name”: “[concat(variables(‘vmName’),’/’, parameters(‘vmBGInfo’))]”, “location”: “[parameters(‘location’)]”, “dependsOn”: [ “[concat(‘Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/’, variables(‘vmName’))]” ], “properties”: { “publisher”: “Microsoft.Compute”, “type”: “BGInfo”, “typeHandlerVersion”: “2.1”, “settings”: {}, “protectedSettings”:…
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Hardware requirements for Azure Stack Technical Preview (POC) released
What an early Christmas present! Yesterday Microsoft has released the hardware requirements for the upcoming Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview. What other informations get we beside the hardware requirements? That the Azure Stack Technical Preview will be a single box installation. Our goal is to enable you to experience the Azure Stack Technical Preview in…
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SCVMM – Storage Overcommitment PowerShell Script – Version 4.0
Today I am releasing version 3.4 and 4.0 of my Storage Overcommitment PowerShell script and first of all I want to talk about the changes I have made. -> https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Discover-Cluster-Shared-859f133c Version 3.4 adds support for selecting multiple Hyper-V clusters and will be the GUI version from now on. That said you will use version 3.4…
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Azure / Azure Stack – IaaS VM ARM MMA & Operational Insights Template Integration
Digging deeper into the Azure Resource Manager capabilities and the template design I got involved today with the Azure VM Extensions. Especially with the Microsoft Monitoring Agent and the automatic configuration for Azure Operational Insights. -> http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/operational-insights/ If you are using VMs in Azure you want some monitoring and analyzing capabilities for them. Instead of…