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5 articles tagged Azure Virtual Machines.

  1. Azure Bastion SKUs compared: choose Developer, Basic, Standard or Premium

    Compare the four Azure Bastion SKUs on features, capacity and requirements, then deploy the right one to RDP and SSH into VMs that have no public IP address.

  2. Azure Update Manager: Schedule Patching for Azure VMs and Arc Servers

    Replace Automation Update Management or WSUS-only patching with Azure Update Manager: periodic assessment, maintenance configurations, dynamic scopes and scheduled patching for Azure and Arc servers.

  3. Azure VM Backup: Recovery Services Vault Policies, Immutability, Restore

    Back up Azure VMs to a Recovery Services vault: choose Standard or Enhanced policies, lock immutability, set soft delete retention, and restore files, disks or whole VMs.

  4. Azure VM Disaster Recovery with Site Recovery: Setup and Test Failover

    Replicate Azure VMs to a secondary region with Azure Site Recovery, prepare networking and recovery plans, and run a test failover that leaves production untouched.

  5. SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Azure VMs: Setup Guide

    Build a SQL Server Always On availability group on Azure VMs in multiple subnets: IP plan, Windows failover cluster, cloud witness quorum, Azure tuned thresholds, listener and failover testing.

    Databases & HA14 min read