Automating Windows #Azure VM backups
Posted by Daniele Grandini in powershell, Windows Azure on March 7, 2014
Using Azure IaaS is great, but like all IaaS solutions it still requires some administrative efforts. In my last installment, I detailed how to use Windows Azure backup and recovery services to protect data contained in virtual machines and how to monitor the success of the backup operations with System Center Operations Manager (http://nocentdocent.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/windows-azure-backup-agent-monitoring-with-sysctr-scom-2/). Protecting […]
Windows #Azure backup agent monitoring with #sysctr #scom
Posted by Daniele Grandini in MP Development, SCOM, Windows Azure on March 1, 2014
In the last couple of months, I worked head down to build an offer for an hybrid cloud solution based on Windows Azure. The solution is aimed at giving a quick answer to all the scenarios where a new project needs to be activated “for yesterday”. I know, you know. Enabling an hybrid cloud using […]
Service Manager future #scsm
Posted by Daniele Grandini in Service Manager on February 21, 2014
Another quick cross post on a highly sensible issue. What’s going on with Service Manager? Read Christian’s post here System Center: Service Manager – A phoenix in its own right Daniele
Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System Center
Posted by Daniele Grandini in Hyper-v, SCVMM on February 14, 2014
Some pretty good MS evangelists are going to run an interesting online event on MS Virtualizations and management solutions + some competitive comparison with VMWare vSphere. I will try to get in to answer some questions. Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System Center Free online event with live Q&A: http://aka.ms/virtDC Wednesday, February 19th […]
Leveraging #sysctr #scvmm IP address management and keeping networking guys happy
Posted by Daniele Grandini in powershell, SCVMM on January 17, 2014
One of the many cool features of VMM is fabric management and in specific network management. Of all the possibilities offered, I am going to focus on IP address management. Basically you can have VMM assign static IP addresses from a pool. Pools are defined per Logical Network and Network Site. When you provision a […]
