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…

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…

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":…

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…

There are serveral links on the internet that discuss tuning Azure VM network performance across both Windows & Linux VMs, most of all come from Microsoft – so this is is a summary of all the links and all the information available for ways to improve & tweak network performance across Azure VMs. Receive Side Scaling (RSS) – is a network driver technology that enables the efficient distribution of network receive processing across multiple CPUs in multiprocessor systems. RSS can reach higher maximal throughput than a VM without RSS. RSS may be disabled by default in a Windows VM. RSS…

Like all public/private clouds, Azure does have its ups and downs and can maybe effect all of us at some point. However due to this, Microsoft publish a public article Designing resilient applications for Azure to help to protect you against any outages. However, when there are any outages, you would want to know about them and be fully kept in the loop. To be totally covered as much as possible for both your stuff and general stuff with a wider scope with the least noise – two steps below: More targeted notifications – Make use of Azure Service Health, you…