virtual machines

Learn about the new features and changes to Hyper-V in the recent 1709 semi-annual channel release of Windows Server.

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s launch of a new version of the F-Series virtual machines aimed at providing Xeon performance for application servers in Azure.

Aidan Finn examines Microsoft’s new feature that allows you to control the forced outages that occur to virtual machines when patches are delivered to Azure’s compute hosts.

Aidan Finn explains explains a new high-availability and service level agreement (SLA) feature of Microsoft Azure called availability zones.

Aidan Finn explains how to select an Azure virtual machine series and size, including updates to past versions of this post, adding the D_v3, E_v3, and L_v2 virtual machines, as well as using the Azure Compute Unit (ACU) measurement.

Aidan Finn shares a summary of the improvements to the Azure virtual machine and related services and features announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2017 conference.

Aidan Finn shares information about a new ultra-low-cost series of Azure virtual machine that is perfect for light workloads with intermittent requirements of higher CPU utilization.

Aidan Finn explains how you can use Alerts in Microsoft Azure to monitor the performance of Azure virtual machines and create alerts or trigger actions when performance breaches pre-defined thresholds.

Aidan Finn discusses how you can achieve better networking performance with Azure virtual machines by using a feature called Accelerated Networking.

Aidan Finn shows you how to execute Azure Automation runbooks from your phone.