Sysadmin Appreciation Day falls on the last Friday of July, and this year it falls on 26th July 2024. Sysadmin Day is celebrated to recognize the IT Administrator who keeps business running 24 *7 without any disruption in business operations. Sysadmins play a pivotal role [...]
Introduction This post details my experiences with Microsoft Copilot for Azure, highlighting its efficiency and enhanced utilization of Azure's capabilities. Microsoft Copilot for Azure is a significant advancement in AI-driven cloud management. It is tailored for Azure engineers, consultants, and architects, offering an intelligent assistant [...]
Introduction The significance of robust, scalable, and efficient storage solutions has recently sky-rocketed in cloud computing. Among the offerings, Azure Elastic SAN is a compelling solution designed to cater to IO-intensive workloads, ensuring seamless data management and accessibility. Having introduced the basic concepts of Azure [...]
What is Azure Elastic SAN? Azure Elastic SAN is Microsoft Azure's innovative storage solution, currently in preview, designed to cater to the diverse needs of enterprises, irrespective of their size. This fully managed, network-attached block storage service is engineered to provide high throughput and low [...]
Introduction In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, mobile accessibility is not a luxury but a necessity. For a long time, I've been using the Azure Mobile App, and I've found it incredibly convenient to quickly view or adjust something on the go, without the need [...]
In today's cloud-centric environment, protecting data and configurations is of utmost importance. Many of us rely on BDRSuite to back up Azure VMs, and for a good reason—it's reliable, efficient, and specifically designed for the job. But what about your complete Azure setup? Delving into [...]
Azure Resource Templates (ARM Templates) are a great way to deploy infrastructure in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft has even made available ready-made templates that can be used and customized. These ARM templates are special JSON files commonly used for Microsoft Azure infrastructure deployment. In the AZ-104 [...]
Deploying and configuring cloud infrastructure is often carried out using infrastructure as code (IaC). It is essential for cloud professionals to master. Microsoft Azure uses Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and the more recent Bicep files. These tools allow Azure administrators to manage their infrastructure [...]
Many features of Microsoft Azure storage allow for a fail-safe if data is deleted or accidentally modified. One of those features that provides an extra layer of protection and that you need to be familiar with for the AZ-104 exam is blob versioning. Let's take [...]
As we have seen, Libvirt is a tool that provides API management for multiple hypervisors, including Kernel-based Virtual Machine). Managing storage with a KVM virtual environment is important to the overall infrastructure. We will consider different storage types with KVM, such as iSCSI, NFS, GlusterFS, [...]
