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Azure Backup Instant VM Recovery and Large Disks

Aidan Finn discusses recent improvements that were announced for Azure Backup, making backups more efficient, large VM restores faster, and enabling support for virtual hard disks that are larger than 1TiB (1024GB).

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Architecting Availability Zones for Azure VMs

Aidan Finn discusses some architectural elements that you will use if you wish to deploy services across availability zones within a single Azure region.

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Controlling Resource Usage and Costs in Azure DevTest Labs

Aidan Finn shows you how to configure DevTest Labs to control what can be deployed by testers and developers, how much of it they can deploy, and importantly, what the cost of the service will be.

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How to Develop and Test Software with Azure VMs

Aidan Finn discusses Azure DevTest Labs, a way to provide self-service for developers and testers with helpful automation but budge control for the business.

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Stress Testing Azure Accelerated Networking

Aidan Finn shares the results of some stress tests that were run on the Azure virtual machines with and without the Accelerated Networking feature enabled.

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My Azure Infrastructure Highlights of 2017

Aidan Finn reviews his highlights in the last year of Azure infrastructure improvements. Please share your highlights too.

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Expanded Azure Virtual Machine Availability and Locations

Aidan Finn discuss the recent expansions of Azure, adding support for virtual machines to more regions, and the expansion of the number of regions internationally.

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Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and Hyper-V

Microsoft has finally released the Azure Site Recovery Planner to help you understand, design, and size your disaster recovery solutions in Azure for on-premises VMware and Hyper-V deployments.

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Using the Azure Pricing Calculator

Aidan Finn discusses how to estimate your consumption using the public Azure pricing calculator.

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Automatically Resize an Azure VM

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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