How to reduce the cost in Azure Cloud? How many companies often complain about cloud spending is more than On-PERM operations? Even though why companies still prefer to move their operations to the cloud? With great power comes great responsibility. Many companies simply get onboarded in to cloud without proper governance and poor cost tracking […]
Azure – What is Proximity Placement Groups in Azure? Reduce latency?
Would you like to reduce the latency between virtual machines? Have you heard of the proximity placement group? Microsoft Azure is growing rapidly so the datacenters in each region. A proximity placement group is a new resource introduced by Microsoft to make a logical grouping of Azure compute resources to ensure VM’s are physically located […]
Availability set vs Availability zone in azure
In the Azure world, very often people confuse themselves between availability set and availability zone. Off-course both the technologies are designed to keep the application highly available from a single point of failure from various components or the complete zone itself. But both options are mutually exclusive. In other words, if you choose the availability […]
What is the Availability zone on Azure?
Microsoft Azure offers multiple high availability options to meet customer requirements. Such options really help to build an application with higher SLA levels for their customers. Azure’s availability zone can help you achieve your organization’s reliability goals. Availability Zones are unique physical locations with independent power, network, and cooling. Each Availability Zone is comprised of one […]
Exclude disks from Azure VM snapshot backup
How to exclude a specific set of disks from Azure native backup? I had the same question for a long time. Finally, Azure Backup now supports selective disk backup and restore. Why should I backup the disks which are not needed or not useful for any kind of recovery? System/applications might generate a lot of […]
Configure Application/Crash consistent backup for VM – Azure
How to configure application-consistent backup on Azure native backup? Backup is extremely important for any services that you use on the cloud. Azure native backup takes VM snapshot and transfers to vault for data protection. In the Azure native backup page, have you noticed three different kinds of restore points? Here are the three different […]
How to update the Ansible Tower Inventory using API?
Ansible Tower offers various REST API to integrate with other tools. I had come across the scenario where the playbook needs to update tower inventory after provisioning cloud instance. tower-cli is one of the methods to update/import inventory on ansible tower but at the time of writing this article, tower-cli is not supported by Red […]
Ansible Tower License expired? How to renew it?
Ansible tower requires a valid license to run any job. Red Hat License management is much easier if you directly manage from the Red Hat subscription portal. But in some cases, you might receive the license from Red Hat sales execute to renew/extended the licenses. This article will cover both scenarios to extend expired licenses. […]
Azure Backup – Recover VM from Crash/ Accidental delete
Backup plays a crucial role in infrastructure management. Backup could be anything like flat files, Operating system files, database files and application files, etc. Backup also needs to be consistent to recovery the respective object failures. This article will walk you through how to recover Azure VM (Windows/Linux) from failure or accidental VM delete. VM […]
How to Enable Azure native backup for Linux & Windows VM?
How to enable Azure native backup for Linux and Windows instances in Azure? To enable the Azure native backup, you need to set up a recovery service vault. Recovery service vault is an online-storage entity in Azure that’s used to hold data, such as backup copies, recovery points, and backup policies. It supports both Local-redundant […]