In Windows Azure Pack – Manage VM Networks topic, I have talked about network virtualization implemented with NVGRE and I have implemented it without NVGRE gateway. That means that Virtual Machines weren’t able to be contacted from the outside of its VM network boundary. In this topic, I’m going to implement a NVGRE gateway in order to these VM can ...
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For this last day to TechEd Europe 2014, I went to these sessions: Session 1: Deploying Hyper-V Network Virtualization; Session 2: Cluster-in-a-Box meats Datacenter Convergence to redefine successful private cloud deployment. Session 1 This session has been presented by Stanislas Quastana and Arnaud Lheureux. This was a demo-oriented session to present how to implement network virtualization from scratch. The speakers ...
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For this third day to TechEd Europe 2014, I went to these sessions: Session 1: Designing Hybrid scenario with Microsoft Azure; Session 2: Malware Hunting with Mark Russinovich and the Sysinternals Tools; Session 3: Microsoft Azure Security Compliance Overview; Session 4: Hyper-V Management made easy with System Center and Veeam Management Pack for System Center; Session 5: Planning and Designing ...
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For my second day to TechEd Europe 2014 I went to the below sessions: Session 1: Directory Integration: Creating One Directory with Active Directory and Azure Active Directory; Session 2: System Center Operations Manager: Monitoring in a Modern World; Session 3: Protecting Virtual Machines with Veeam: There is More than Just Protection; Session 4: How you can Hack-Proof your clients ...
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Microsoft has just released Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Azure Pack. This update fix a lot of issues (mainly on VMM) and add new features as DPM which is now able to backup SQL Server 2012SP2/2014. Below, you can find links to download updates: Virtual Machine Manager: KB2992024 Service Provider Foundation: KB2992021 Operations Manager: KB2992020 Service ...
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This week I am to TechEd 2014 at Barcelona. For this days, I have chosen the below session: TechEd Keynote Optimizing your Datacenter with Windows Server, System Center, and Microsoft Azure Software Defined Compute in the Next Release of Windows Server Hyper-V Next Generation Networking in the next release of Windows Server: SDN, NFV and Cloud Scale fundamentals Software Defined ...
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The RDS Gateway is useful for VM Clouds in the Windows Azure Pack to connect to Virtual Machine that have no connection to the network. Thanks to RDS gateway, VMs can be managed from console mode and tenants can always have access to VMs even if a network issue occurs. N.B : The above schema comes from this TechNet article. The ...
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When the Windows Azure Pack is installed for production, the access to the cloud services should be accessible 99,9% of the time. To implement this service level, the Windows Azure Pack has to be deployed with high availability mechanisms as Load-Balancing, SQL AlwaysOn and so on. The below schema shows the Windows Azure Pack deployment in high availability that I ...
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SMA (Service Management Automation) is a feature that enables to automate tasks in your private cloud from the Windows Azure Pack. SMA is included in the Orchestrator ISO. Three components are needed to run SMA for Windows Azure Pack: SMA Web Services – This is a REST Endpoint used by the Windows Azure Pack to connect to the SMA service. ...
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In the previous topic, I have configured the Website clouds service in the Windows Azure Pack. However websites usually need a database to store configuration and user data. For example Tech-Coffee is powered by WordPress which needs a MySQL database. So in this topic we will see how to implement the MySQL Servers service on the Windows Azure Pack. MySQL ...
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