Speakers: Trinadh Kotturu, Senthuran Sivananthan, & Rochak Mittal Site Recovery At Scale Senthuran Sivananthan Real Solutions for Real Problems Customer example: Finastra. BCP process: Define RPO/RTO. Document DR failover triggers and approvals. Access control: Assign clear roles and ownership. Levarage ASR built-in roles for RBAC. Different RS vault for different BU/tenants. They deployed 1 RSV…
A blog covering Azure, Hyper-V, Windows Server, desktop, systems management, deployment, and so on …
Tag: Azure Backup
Backup Your Data With Microsoft Azure Backup
Speakers: Saurabh Sensharma & Shivam Garg Saurabh starts. He shows a real ransomware email. The ransom was 1.7 bitcoins for 1 PC or 29 bitcoins for all PCs. Part of the process to restore was to send files to the attacker to prove decryption works. The two files the customer sent contained customer data! Stuff…
Faster & Bigger Azure Backup for Azure VMs
Azure Backup recently rolled out an update to their service for protecting Azure VMs to improve backup speed, restore performance, and to add support for larger disks. Support for Large Disks Azure Backup didn’t support disks that were larger than 1 TiB (1 TB is the marketing measure of 1000 GB, and 1 TiB is…
Windows Server 2019 Announced for H2 2018
Last night, Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2019 would be released, generally available, in the second half of 2018. I suspect that the big bash will be Ignite in Orlando at the end of September, possibly with a release that week, but maybe in October – that’s been the pattern lately. LTSC Microsoft is referring…
Amsterdam – Starting Azure Infrastructure Course
I am happy to announce that our Cloud Mechanix venture is bringing my custom-written Starting Azure Infrastructure course to Amsterdam on April 19-20. This course is intended for IT professionals and developers that wish to start working with or improve their knowledge of Azure virtual machines. The course starts at the very beginning, explaining what…
Azure Backup MARS Agent System State Support is GA
Microsoft announced last week that they made support for backing up system state using the MARS agent generally available. System State backup was one of those “I must have this” features that I’ve been hearing about for 3+ years. Today it’s there – update your version of the MARS agent and you’ll have it. With…
Protect Your Data With Microsoft Azure Backup
Speakers: Vijay Tandra Sistla, Principal PM Manager Aruna Somendra, Senior Program Manager Aruna is first to speak. It’s a demo-packed session. There was another session on AB during the week – that’s probably worth watching as well. All the attendees are from diverse backgrounds, and we have one common denominator: data. We need to protect…
Restore An Azure VM to an Availability Set From Azure Backup in the Azure Portal
Microsoft has shared how to restore an Azure VM to an availability set using PowerShell from Azure Backup. It’s nasty-hard looking PowerShell, and my problem with examples of VM creation using PowerShell is that they’re never feature complete. While writing some Azure VM training recently, I stumbled across a cool option in the Azure Portal…
Create a New VM From An Existing Managed Disk
In previous posts I have shown how to restore the disks of a VM to a storage account and how to create managed disks from those VHD blobs. In this post, I will show how to create a new VM from a managed disk. When these 3 steps are done together, this is an easy…
Create an Azure Managed Disk from a VHD Blob
This post will show you how to create a managed disk from a VHD blob file, such as one you’ve uploaded or restored from a virtual machine backup. In my example, I have restored the virtual hard disks of an Azure VM to a storage account called aidanfinnrestore. I am going to create a new…