Tag: IaaS
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Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 on lower hardware specifications
New technical preview, new challenges. After I got the TP1 and TP2 running on lower hardware specifications, I have tried the same for the TP3 and want to share the results with you. First of all we have the same hardware requirements for TP3 as for TP1 and TP2. Component Minimum Recommended CPU Dual-Socket: 12…
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Microsoft Azure – managed disks and port 8443 issue
Managed disks are new and maybe you have run into a deployment error with VMs using managed disks. The reason for that is mentioned in the notes, directly at the beginning of the documentation. VMs with Managed Disks require outbound traffic on port 8443 to report the status of the installed VM extensions to the…
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Why you should use managed disks on Microsoft Azure?
Two weeks ago, Microsoft has announced the next milestone for the Azure IaaS platform, managed disks. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-managed-disks-and-larger-scale-sets/ Why are they so important and why you should use them? These questions will be answered in this blog post and I will also provide some more details about managed disks. First of all and this is…
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Azure Germany services URLs and IP addresses for firewall or proxy whitelisting
When you are working with Azure Germany sometimes you have to whitelist specific IP address ranges or URLs in your corporate firewall or proxy to access all Azure services you are using or trying to use. Some information like the datacenter IP ranges and some of the URLs are easy to find. Other things are…
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Azure storage performance health check script
When you are working with Azure IaaS services especially with Azure VMs, it comes down to one critical component you have to look very accurately during the design phase and that is Azure storage. It does not matter whether you going to use standard storage accounts or premium storage accounts. Why I am telling you…
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SAP workloads on Azure Germany
Different SAP workloads are certified to run on Microsoft Azure and that does also counts for Microsoft Azure Germany. But which SAP solutions can be run on Azure Germany? First of all, all the necessary OS images are available in the Azure Marketplace in both regions Germany Central and Germany Northeast. But have a look…