Restore Azure Virtual Machine From a Backup Snapshot

Aidan Finn shows you how you can restore an Azure virtual machine from a snapshot, using the recent update that was rolled out to Azure Backup.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure — March 2018 Edition

Month 3 of 2018 brought us some interesting news in Azure IaaS. Some things that have been in the oven for a while are starting to rise and there’s lots more evidence of the new and open Microsoft.

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Azure Backup Instant VM Recovery and Large Disks

Aidan Finn discusses recent improvements that were announced for Azure Backup, making backups more efficient, large VM restores faster, and enabling support for virtual hard disks that are larger than 1TiB (1024GB).

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Architecting Availability Zones for Azure VMs

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Aidan Finn discusses some architectural elements that you will use if you wish to deploy services across availability zones within a single Azure region.

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How to Develop and Test Software with Azure VMs

Aidan Finn discusses Azure DevTest Labs, a way to provide self-service for developers and testers with helpful automation but budge control for the business.

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Stress Testing Azure Accelerated Networking

Aidan Finn shares the results of some stress tests that I ran on the Azure virtual machines with and without the Accelerated Networking feature enabled.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure — January Edition

It’s a new year and it’s time for new things. This month I’m starting a monthly series to summarize some notable things that have happened in Azure IaaS.

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Azure Accelerated Network Is Generally Available

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s recent announcement that Accelerated Networking is now generally available for Windows and Linux virtual machines running in Azure.

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My Azure Infrastructure Highlights of 2017

Aidan Finn reviews his highlights in the last year of Azure infrastructure improvements. Please share your highlights too.

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