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Using Azure Migrate to migrate Virtual Machines from a Hyper-V host to Azure, you may want to start a Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM) after they have been migrated for various reasons including:- VM not accessible in Azure Azure Migration issue and want to restore back to an earlier version of the VM again on Hyper-V … Read more
Azure provides a start/stop VM solution that allows you to stop/start VMs on a schedule; it consists of multiple PowerShell runbooks. This solution offers three options when deployed:- Schedule VMs to start and stop Schedule VMs to start and stop in ascending order by using Azure Tags Autostop Vms based on low CPU usage Overtime … Read more
Quite often I do get asked about Azure Virtual Machine security and what I recommend you to configure/look at in relation to securing your Virtual Machine configuration. In this blog, I am going to include 6 Virtual Machine security security suggestions to get you started that you may want to consider applying to your Virtual … Read more
Using Virtual Machines in Azure from time-to-time you may want to have a copy of the current point-in-time of your Virtual Machine, rather than taking a full backup of this using Recovery Services, can you create a snapshot of the Virtual Machine disk(s) using an Azure Snapshot Snapshots are in theory, a simple read-only copy … Read more
I am going to show you how to create a Hub-Spoke network configuration with Azure Firewall using PowerShell. What is a Hub-Spoke network? Think of the Hub-Spoke as two different networks, network1 is hub, network2 is spoke. Network1 acts as the central point of connectivity and perimeter for your network where all traffic has to … Read more