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Microsoft has added two new kinds of resiliency to general purpose v2 (GPv2) storage accounts called Geo-Zone Redundant Storage (GZRS) and Read-Access Geo-Zone Redundant Storage (RA-GZRS). The Old ZRS ZRS, when it originally appeared several years ago in Azure, was a form of general purpose storage account v (GPv1) replication that had a complex definition.…
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…
You have the ability to (manually or programmatically) tier blobs (files) in a storage account. This post will explain how. The Theory There are three tiers of blob storage in Azure: Hot: The cheapest to access, but the most expensive to store. Cool: Medium price storage, but expensive to access. Archive: Extremely cheap per GB…
Combined with the general availability of blob tiering (hot, cool, and archive), Microsoft has launched a new version of storage account, called the General Purpose v2 Storage Account. Before, we had two kinds of storage account: General Purpose: Now called the General Purpose v2 storage account, this offered blob, page blob, queue, and table storage.…
I recently had an issue where starting an Azure virtual machine would fail. The reason given was that the Boot Diagnostics storage account was missing. In this post, I’ll show you mu workaround. As part of my recent upgrade/migration for the VM hosting this site, I did a big clean up and re-organization of resources.…
In this post, I will explain how I upgraded the Azure virtual machine, that this site is hosted on, from ASM (Azure Service Management, Classic or Azure v1) to ARM (Azure Resource Manager, Resource Manager or Azure v2). FYI, although I had no plans for changing subscriptions, this migration is also the first step for…