by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Oct 9, 2018 | Azure, VM
Introduction In this post, we will try to clear up how we can save up money by bringing the on-premise infrastructure investments on Azure Cloud using the Hybrid benefit What is the Azure Hybrid Benefit The Azure Hybrid Benefit allows to bring the On-Premises Windows...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Oct 5, 2018 | Azure, Virtualization, VM
Important The recommended method to implement this scenario requires an S2S VPN connection in order to ensure resilient connectivity. The following scenario was tested with both deployment methods (S2S, P2S) and P2S VPN connection wasn’t as stable as the S2S...
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...