In the previous part we talked about clusters and the core concepts associated with them. We talked about what they are, how they work, how to create them, register them and manage them end-to-end via Windows Admin Center (WAC). In this chapter we are going to talk briefly about some networking concepts associated with Azure
When you deploy Azure Stack HCI, you deploy it in the form of a cluster, with multiple nodes participating. A cluster is basically a group of otherwise independent servers (nodes) that are interconnected to work with each other to provide features like scalability, high availability, load balancing, etc. and many more. An HCI cluster collects
In the previous part we talked about Azure Arc, which is integral in our Azure Hybrid Cloud story. Azure Arc is essentially the glue that sticks our on-prem or multi-cloud infrastructure to the Azure portal, for unified management and control. We are now ready to move on to other infrastructure focused concepts such as storage,
In the previous part we discussed the “HCI” part in Azure Stack HCI and how it is different than the conventional non-converged infrastructure and the advantages of it. Azure Stack HCI is very tightly coupled with Azure Arc and so it becomes crucial that we discuss Azure Arc first before we move on. Azure Arc
Before we start talking about Azure Stack HCI, let’s start with just HCI. HCI or “Hyperconverged Infrastructure” is a recent datacenter technology that lets you modernize and minimize your hardware footprint. A more “traditional” datacenter has different tiers of hardware (compute, storage and network) externally connected to each other, and as you can imagine this
This is the continuation of our discussion about the Azure Stack portfolio products and how they fit in your hybrid cloud story. In part 1 we established a few reasons as to why you would want to implement a hybrid cloud in the first place, now we will focus more on the actual products and
I work with the native Azure portal fairly regularly, but I hadn’t heard much about the Azure Stack family other than that it’s like an off-shoot of Azure but for on-premise infrastructure. Unfortunately, I’ve never had the opportunity to actually get hands-on with it. But recently, I was researching about the Azure Stack portfolio products
Recently, I was fortunate enough to co-host the rather historic SCOM conference – SCOMathon 2020! As evident by the name, it was indeed what it claims to be – A SCOM marathon! 16 straight hours of awesome SCOM content. A dream come true for any and all SCOMers. Being a SCOM lover myself, I got
Recently we noticed an unusual high CPU load on one Domain Controller. – The SCOM Agent was occupying nearly all resources. – This short blog post shows how to troubleshoot and fix issues like this. Problem High CPU load on one Domain Controller. – Taskmanager exposed that System Center Management Service Host Process alternating with
Azure Update Management (AUM) is a free service that helps to deploy patches on servers running in Azure and On Premises (in your datacenter). It provides basic capabilities, but enough to control the whole patch process. While evaluating AUM on a Windows Server 2019 hosted on Azure I noticed that either monitoring with SCOM or
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