Azure

Azure Migrate: how to assess on-premises servers for a future Azure migration

Azure Migrate provides a set of tools to assess and migrate on-premise infrastructure like Hyper-V or VMware virtual machines, physical servers as well as SQL and other Databases, web application… The Azure Migrate overview page resumes the different key(…)

Introduction to Azure SQL Database Auto-failover groups

SQL Azure Database by default offers a 99.99% availability SLA across all its service tiers. This means that for any database, the downtime should not exceed 52 minutes per year. Using Zone redundancy increases availability to 99.995% which is(…)

How to create an Azure SQL Database using Azure PowerShell

In this blog post, I’ll go through the steps to create an Azure SQL Database using Azure PowerShell. Introduction to Azure SQL Database The SQL database services provided by Microsoft on the cloud are now grouped under the(…)

How to install MABS (Microsoft Azure Backup Server) and use it to protect on-premise virtual machines

During my last blog-posts I tested the MARS (Microsoft Azure Recovery Service) through Windows Admin Center and how to use Azure Backup to recover files/folders or System State for protected servers. To continue my Azure protection possibilities overview I(…)

How to create an Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service (DBaaS) which gives us the possibility to create application with a performant database without to take care of the relying infrastructure. Azure SQL Database is based on the latest stable version of Microsoft(…)