Azure Usage monitoring with Azure Automation
When you purchase an Azure subscription it comes with usage caps for various resources. As an example the usage cap for number of cores is 20. You can call use Azure Support and open a free billing...
View ArticleAzure SDK 2.6 Diagnostics Improvements for Cloud Services
I haven’t blogged for a while because of being very busy at work. Things are slowing down a bit so I will try to write more frequently. History Azure SDK 2.5 made big changes to Azure diagnostics. It...
View ArticleHow to migrate from Standard Azure Virtual Machines to DS Series Storage...
Background We are implementing Azure solutions for a few clients. Most of our clients are use cloud services and virtual machines to implement their solutions on Azure platform. For many years Azure...
View ArticleInstalling Splunk Forwarder in Azure Web/Worker Roles with a Startup Task
Overview I recently had to install Splunk Universal Forwarder in Azure worker roles. Azure web/worker roles are stateless so the only way to install any software is to do so via Azure startup tasks....
View ArticleAdventures with Azure Resource Manager Part I
Overview In this series of blog posts I will create ARM templates used to provision Azure resources. I will kick things off by creating a template that shows you have to create multiple storage...
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