A quick blog post on a fix I found to resolve a replication issue between Hyper-V guest and Azure Migrate with error code 8079002c Using Azure Migrate and attempting to replicate an On-Premise Hyper-V guest (Server 2012R2) to azure, error code 8079002c kept appearing and the initial replication kept failing.
Assign Network Security Group to Virtual Machine Network Interface using PowerShell
A blog post to show how you can assign a Network Security Group (NSG) to a Virtual Machine Network Interface (NIC) in Azure using PowerShell. Firstly, get the Network Security Group you want to have assigned to the Virtual Machine…
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Hyper-V prevented starting virtual machine because it is prepared for failover fix
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 AzureAzure Migration issue and…
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Creating custom runbooks from start/stop VM solution for specific sets of VMs using tags for sequenced start/stop
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 stopSchedule VMs to start and stop in…
Azure Virtual Machine Security:- 6 Security suggestions to get you started
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…
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Azure Virtual Machine Change Tracking
Lets have a look at the Azure Virtual Change Tracking extension/solution that allows you to view guest-related OS changes within your Virtual Machine from Azure. This data can be used to alert-on if required various changes within your Virtual Machine…
cloud-init does not appear to be running error after installing WALinuxAgent fix
After a recent migration of a Linux VM (Ubuntu 16.04) from a data centre to Azure using Azure Migrate, it didn't include the installation of WALinuxAgent Why is this needed? This agent is how the Virtual Machine communicates with Azure,…
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Copy Azure Virtual Machine Snapshots to another region and create Managed disks using PowerShell
In my previous blog, I detailed how to create Virtual Machine (VM) snapshots of all disks and restore in Azure using PowerShell, this is a follow-on blog detailing how you can copy the Virtual Machine disk snapshots to another region,…
Azure Managed Disk snapshot and restore using PowerShell
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…
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Securing your Virtual Network with Azure Firewall and Network Security Groups
In this blog, I am going to be summarising how you can secure your Virtual network (vNET) with a combination of Azure Firewall and Network Security Group (NSG) Considerations for this will be that the environment will be a hub-spoke…
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