Tag: Public Cloud
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Azure Backup – Application Consistent VM Level Backup – Restore
In my previous blog post I wrote about the Azure Backup – Application Consistent VM Level Backup. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/azure-backup-application-consistent-vm-level-backup/ Today I will show you how to do a restore of your Azure VM. First of all we have to select our protected VM we want to restore. Then we select either the newest recovery point…
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Azure Backup – Application Consistent VM Level Backup
This week Microsoft has announced a new feature for its Azure Backup services. Prior to this you had the choice to backup your Azure IaaS VMs either with the MARS agent or System Center Data Protection Manager to Azure Backup. Both options were limited. The combination of the MARS agent and Azure Backup was only…
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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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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…