When running Storage Spaces Direct in Cloud environments where disk resources can be provisioned at a moments notice with any capacity, it can be the norm that disks will be (hot) added from a cluster to account for growing capacity or performance needs. By default, disks added to cluster nodes…
Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) [https://cloud.google.com/iap] is a powerful tool in the tool chain of Google Cloud administrators and users. It can be used to control access to cloud-based and on-premises applications and VMs running on Google Cloud. IAP adds common authentication and authorization infrastructure based on Cloud…
One of the most requested features from customers that deploy Cloud SQL for SQL Server (Cloud SQL) [https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sqlserver] has been Active Directory integration [https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sqlserver/configure-ad] which was released last year. Since then Google Cloud has added cross-project capability…
Many enterprises that migrate their IT estate to cloud will face the question on how to continue to support operations across workloads that remain on-premises and workloads that are migrated to cloud. While virtual machines (VMs) behave largely the same in cloud from a data plane (what is happening on…
Sole-tenant nodes are an important service on Google Cloud Platform to run workloads that require workload isolation or need to comply to specific licensing requirements that demand dedicated infrastructure. A detailed description what a Sole-Tenant Node is and how it is different from general fleet VMs can be found in…
Sole-tenant nodes [https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenant-nodes] are being used by customers for workload isolation and also for licensing compliance (e.g. bringing Window Server licenses [https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/windows/ms-licensing]). Throughout the life cycle of a sole-tenant node there might be the…
This article has now been published on the official Google Cloud Blog. [https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/how-to-use-vm-manager-os-patch-management-to-clone-a-disk]…
Who doesn't want to version their Jupyter Notebooks? Integrating Cloud Source Repositories and AI Platform Notebooks is not hard but I wasn't able to find documentation to set it up. Before we get started you need to create a new repository in Cloud Source Repositories [https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/…