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Aidan Finn compares and contrasts the two options for deploying SQL Server in Microsoft Azure, Azure SQL, and SQL Server running in a virtual machine.
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In this “how to” post, Aidan Finn shows you how to use Azure Automation to scale up (increase) or scale down (decrease) the size of an Azure virtual machine.
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Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s launch of a new version of the F-Series virtual machines aimed at providing Xeon performance for application servers in Azure.
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Aidan Finn explains explains a new high-availability and service level agreement (SLA) feature of Microsoft Azure called availability zones.
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Aidan Finn explains how to select an Azure virtual machine series and size, including updates to past versions of this post, adding the D_v3, E_v3, and L_v2 virtual machines, as well as using the Azure Compute Unit (ACU) measurement.
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Aidan Finn shares a summary of the improvements to the Azure virtual machine and related services and features announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2017 conference.
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Aidan Finn shares information about a new ultra-low-cost series of Azure virtual machine that is perfect for light workloads with intermittent requirements of higher CPU utilization.
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Aidan Finn shows you how to use Azure virtual machine performance threshold alerts to trigger email alerts or start automated-response actions.
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Aidan Finn teaches how to capture packets from the NICs of Azure virtual machines using Network Watcher and inspect Azure network traffic at the packet level using Wireshark.
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Aidan Finn demonstrates how you can use Azure’s Network Watcher to check if one Azure virtual machine can talk to another.
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