by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Aug 17, 2018 | Azure, VM
Availability is the annual percentage rate that a system is functional and working. Azure offers SLA-graded availability solutions for Virtual Machines by hosting them in multiple data centers around the world. This article provides you with an overview of the... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jul 17, 2018 | Azure, VM
Azure reserved virtual machine instances gives the ability to purchase Azure compute resources with up to 43% or more savings for 3-year reservation. Essentially what Microsoft did, was to listen to the customer’s needs for less cost and gave it through this... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Apr 22, 2018 | Azure, VM
This service allows users to deploy a set of identical virtual machines. Virtual machines can auto-scale by defining rules for resources like CPU, Memory, Network Traffic etc. Also, there is an Azure Load balancer which distributes traffic to the Virtual Machine... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Apr 16, 2018 | Azure, Installation / Configuration, SQL Server, VM
SQL Server: Failover Clustering and Always On Availability Groups Before we start to configure SQL Server always On, you need to make sure that you have: One Domain Controller Two Database Servers A Storage that will play the File Share Witness (Witness Quorum) All... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jul 19, 2017 | Azure, VM
In this post, you can see the categories of virtual machines you can open in the cloud, as well as the CPU type of each: A – SERIES (A0 -A7) CPU Intel Xeon® E5-2630 v3 @ 2.4 GHz Cores / Threads : 8 / 16, L3 Cache : 20 MB, Data Width : 64 bit A –...
