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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • April 23, 2019

Protect Azure File Shares with Azure Backup

Admittedly, Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform that is friendly and useful enough for every business person. It provides a varying range of possibilities, including cloud file storage. However, these files are fragile, for even a missed click can become a huge inconvenience. It is only reasonable to go on further with exploring Azure services and learn how to protect your data with Azure Backup.
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Kevin Soltow
  • Kevin Soltow
  • April 22, 2019

Cool vSphere Command-Line Interface (ESXCLI) Commands that Helped Me a Lot

Today, I’d like to share some of cool ESXCLI commands for performing a good part of IT related routines. Sure, vSphere Client has a wonderful GUI allowing for carrying out most of daily tasks… but CLI is much more powerful tool once you master it! So, that’s actually why I share my “Swiss Army knife” commands here.
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Dmitriy Dolgiy
  • Dmitriy Dolgiy
  • April 18, 2019

Can SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance run on S2D twice as fast as SQL Server Availability Groups on Storage Spaces? Summary

Since I’m done with measuring SQL Server Availability Groups (AG) on Storage Spaces and SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) on Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) performance, I can write the most interesting part in this series: performance comparison.
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Mikhail Rodionov
  • Mikhail Rodionov
  • April 18, 2019

Installing AMP stack on Ubuntu Server 18.04.2

Websites serving a large number of requests or providing services require high uptime. Here AMP (Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack comes. It performs a logical pooling of resources, distributing workloads across multiple servers. So, with AMP stack you receive improved performance and high availability (HA) of your services.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • April 16, 2019

Manage your public DNS from Azure

Managing several DNS zones is hard because the interface is changing with a provider, and it’s not user-friendly. However, you can leave troubling interface and manual DNS record creation behind and start managing DNS zone from the Azure Portal. Whether you are a Microsoft Azure user, or you already have a DNS zone, you can use it still!
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Kevin Soltow
  • Kevin Soltow
  • April 12, 2019

Deep dive into VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 8.1. Part 2 – Creating a Disaster Recovery Site

Having a disaster recovery site is a must for any company. That’s why I wrote an article some time ago on how to set up Site Recovery Manager (SRM) so that it allows for creating a disaster recovery site. Today, I describe how you can actually create that site and migrate your VMs from the main site there.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • April 11, 2019

[Azure DevOps] Terraform deployment with Azure DevOps – Part 2

Everything that needs to be said about the importance of project management automatization and workflow organization has already been said. You have learned how to create your first Azure DevOps build with a Terraform file, so now it is time to finally learn how to automatize your Terraform resource deployment with Azure DevOps.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • April 9, 2019

[Azure DevOps] Terraform deployment with Azure DevOps – Part 1

Project management and automatized workflow are the milestones of any business, but small companies often have neither resources nor the experience to build them from scratch. That is when Azure DevOps enters the scene! This guide lets Terraform users learn how to optimize their workflow with Azure.
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Didier Van Hoye
  • Didier Van Hoye
  • April 4, 2019

How to use a persistent memory disk in a Hyper-V virtual machine

Probably, everyone asked that question when finding out about the support function for persistent memory disks inside a virtual machine (VM) in Windows Server 2019 with the Hyper-V role. Persistent memory disks are good when we need a very high speed and very low latency. Some vendors can provide persistent memory disk option for you in their storage offerings. But why mapping persistent memory storage via the hypervisor host is so important?
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