As 2017 comes to a close I like to sit and think what I have achieved this year and what can be done better looking forward to 2018. It has been a pretty busy and good year. The following things happened for me: I passed the following Microsoft exams to achieve MCSE Solutions Export Cloud …
Month: December 2017
Azure Backups
One of the most common use cases for Azure is the Backup facility. The Azure Backup service enables multiple resources to be backed up and stored in the Azure cloud. There are multiple benefits of this including: Security – Data is encrypted and stored within Microsoft’s secure data centers. Ease of use – As you …
Azure Availability Zones
In my previous post(https://itsolutionsdirect.com/designing-vm-deployments-by-leveraging-availability-sets-fault-domains-and-update-domains-in-azure/904/) we discussed the theory behind Azure Availability Sets and how to implement them. Whilst Azure Availability Set’s protect you from host maintenance/failure within the datacentre, they do not protect you from a complete datacentre failure. This is where Azure Availability Zones come into play. When you deploy an VM’s into an …
Designing VM deployments by leveraging availability sets, fault domains, and update domains in Azure
When designing and building an Azure infrastructure you still need to think about high availability to ensure uptime when host servers are rebooted due to unplanned (i.e. power outages) and planned maintenance (i.e. monthly patching). In a tradition on-premise Datacentre we achieved this by using clusters, load balancers and active-active services deployed across multiple DC’s. …