My video for Australia Day, took me 3 days to make with Adobe Premiere hence the change of clothes throughout the video, but in brief, it’s the A-Z of Australian Rock from the 80’s in time for Australia 🇦🇺 Day, four and half hours of commercial-free VIDEOS. You can stream it on your TV using the Vimeo app on your phone, then have it playing in the background. What’s more, any of the videos that had bad quality audio, I swapped out the bad audio with much better quality audio and took the time to lip sync it (about half…
Category: Azure
Nova 969 Sydney 2020 NYE (6pm-6am)
Nova 969 Sydney 2020 NYE (New Years Eve) mix (6pm-6am) – 12 hours commercial free. This playlist on SoundCloud has 12 tracks, one track for each hour from 6pm – 6am.
Azure Networking Sessions | Ignite 2020
Sessions below, all Azure Networking based – knock yourself out! Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture with Mark Russinovich Mark Russinovich Tech Community https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/HIGHMP4/IG20-OD221 What’s new in Azure Networking Narayan Annamalai OD226 Tech Community https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/HIGHMP4/IG20-OD226 Advanced E2E architectures and new capabilities for Azure Virtual Network (VNet) Narayan Annamalai YouTube https://youtu.be/F44W3_kGX0U Build and monitor highly available applications with Azure’s Network Load Balancer Anavi Nahar YouTube https://youtu.be/w-VntkWCzJc Design high performance networks for your hybrid workloads Jared Ross YouTube https://youtu.be/Da7yH53vq0A Architect and simplify hybrid networking with Azure Virtual WAN and SD-WAN Reshmi Yandapalli YouTube https://youtu.be/nOmlUg9Li1s Create distributed and low-latency network architectures…
Resize Azure Virtual Machines in Parallel
Imagine you had to resize a whole bunch of VMs in Azure, rather than doing a resize one after the other in serial, you can do this in parallel with the new ForEach-Object Parallel feature in PowerShell v7. More details on this feature here – https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-foreach-object-parallel-feature/ Doing this in parallel will greatly speed up the process by resizing any number of VMs all at once. To start with, you will need a CSV file with two columns, vmname,targetsize. Enter all the VM names of the VMs that you want to resize, also the correct VM size. Sample CSV file: To get a list of Azure VM…
Azure Private Link DNS
Azure Private Link is a private connection to Azure PaaS services. However to really understand private link, you need to understand what is happening under the covers – with DNS. Before you enable Private Link for a PaaS service e.g. Azure SQL, if you had an Azure PaaS service URL e.g. Sql321.database.windows.net (a global zone), the following would be the DNS resolution that would occur: You had a virtual machine that made a request to Sql321.database.windows.net This DNS request resolved to a DNS CNAME record and was forwarded by using a redirect (CNAME) to another regional DNS zone of westeurope1-a.control.database.windows.net…
Azure Networking Sessions | Ignite 2019
Microsoft Ignite just completed in the US beginning of November 2019. As a result, it’s left us with a whole bunch of free and awesome content to keep us busy. Put Netflix aside for the next month or so and watch all the Ignite videos instead. To help, I managed to collate the Azure Networking topics all into the one single YouTube playlist. Also too if you want to find the rest of the Ignite videos, here’s the raw JSON payload with all the sessions: This file has been truncated, but you can view the full file. [ { "@search.score":…
Azure Firewall Demystified Whiteboarding video
Yet another one to the series – this time Stephane again and myself talk about the Azure Firewall!
SAP on Azure demystified whiteboarding video
In case you missed the others in the series: Azure Virtual WAN demystified | whiteboarding session Azure ExpressRoute demystified | whiteboarding session Azure ExpressRoute demystified (part 2) | whiteboarding session This next one focuses on the large ticket item, SAP on Azure. I’m joined by Etienne Dittrich from Microsoft who takes us through in a clean and concise way. We cover off the following: Why should I care about SAP HANA SAP on Azure SAP on Azure IaaS SAP Large Instances (Physical) SAP Infrastructure on Azure SAP Resiliency Linux Clustering – Pacemaker clusters SAP DR/HA Azure NetApp Files & SAP…
Azure Virtual WAN demystified | whiteboarding session
Another video int he series, this time, the great… Azure Virtual WAN
Azure Files 10 years retention
As per this blog post, you can now backup Azure Files with a retention of 10 years! Microsoft have enabled on-demand backups that can retain your snapshots for 10 years using PowerShell Backup for Azure file shares offers the ability to configure policies with retention up to 180 days. However, using the “On-demand backup” option in PowerShell, you can retain a recovery point even for 10 years! You can have up to 200 Snapshots for a file share at any point in time A couple of points to consider at the time of writing. Currently there isn’t a way to…