This coming Saturday, April 22 I’ll be join a few other speakers in Jacksonville, FL and hundreds of speakers around the globe to take part in the 2017 Global Azure Bootcamp. I’ll be speaking on using ARM to provisioning Azure Virtual Machines. So, if you want to come get introduced to creating ARM templates for Azure VMs, come join me … Read More
A Quick test of Accelerated Networking in Azure
Intro Recently, Microsoft announced Accelerated Networking in Azure. At a high level, they took FPGAs in the Azure Data Center, connected them to the Azure IaaS hosts over PCIe and use that for networking as opposed to the standard way of networking using Hyper-V. You can view a diagram and an article from Microsoft on how it all works here … Read More
Adding DNS to Azure VMs created using Azure Resource Management
If you’ve been using IaaS, specifically Azure VMs, you’ll know that there are two different types of VMs you can have. Those running as “classic” or ASM and those running on the newer ARM. When you create VMs in classic mode you have the option to assign a DNS name to it. That way when you connect to the VM, … Read More
Azure Premium Storage by the Numbers
I’ve recently been doing a lot of work around Azure Premium Storage and the configuration options across various virtual machines. I did a similar post to this one where I talked about standard storage. You can find that post here. Since that post I’ve had access to premium storage and Microsoft has released both the DS and GS series virtual … Read More
My Interview on the Microsoft Cloud Show: Azure Premium Storage – Show Notes
I recently had the privilege of being on the Microsoft Cloud Show where I was interviewed by the hosts, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson, about Azure Premium Storage. During the interview I referenced several articles and links. Here are a list of all the relevant links from that interview (and a few others on the topic you may find interesting): … Read More