Automatically joining VMs to Active Directory on Google Cloud

By Christoph Petersen in Active Directory on

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 the inside of the VM), control plane functions can differ significantly.…

Moving VMs between sole-tenant node groups

By Christoph Petersen in Google Cloud on

Sole-tenant nodes are being used by customers for workload isolation and also for licensing compliance (e.g. bringing Window Server licenses). Throughout the life cycle of a sole-tenant node there might be the necessity of moving virtual machines to another node group or even to another machine family (e.…