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…
Azure File Sync [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-sync-files-planning] lets you tier data from on-premises systems to a cloud share based on Azure File. Local nodes can act as hot-caches, caching data based on access and modification patterns. Azure File Sync supports multi-master sync so that you…
If you are archiving diagnostic logs [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/monitoring-archive-diagnostic-logs] or activity logs [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/monitoring-archive-activity-log] to a storage account through Azure Monitor be aware that on Nov 1, 2018 there will be a breaking change in the format. The current…
When using Azure Backup to manage (geo-)distributed backups across a company you may find that the Azure Backup Reports with Power BI [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-configure-reports] is limited to a single storage account. Unfortunately the reporting telemetry coming from Azure Backup needs to be written…