If you worked with an application that is based on Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC), you may already know that sometimes we have to share virtual disks between servers. Scale-Out File Servers (SoFS), SAP, Remote Desktop Server User Profile Disk, Failover cluster instance (FCI) with SQL Server are some of the examples. If virtual machines are running on VMware, we can do this by enabling…
The role of a load balancer is to improve the availability of services by distributing the load to a pool of back end servers. When it comes to load balancing, Azure has a few different products to choose from.
• Azure Application Gateway – If you require a load balancer that can provide features such as SSL offloading, reverse proxy and works in the application layer (layer 7)…
Each organization has different standards when it comes to server/desktop provisioning. These standards change based on the nature of the business, compliances, server/desktop role and so on. By keeping the customized OS image simplifies the provisioning process as well as prevent configuration errors. In the local environment, we can do this simply using WDS, System Centre or other 3rd party…
If we need to access an Azure VM using RDP or SSH, most commonly we use public IP method. In this way, the virtual machine will have a public IP address (static or dynamic) assigned to it. Also, RDP or SSH service ports will open to the public via NSG. This is easy but not a very secure method.
If we have VPN or Express Route connectivity to Azure, we can connect to virtual machines using…
