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…
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…
Today I was honored to present Server Management for hybrid environments as part of the Virtual Windows Server Summit 2019 webcast. Markus Klein [https://twitter.com/DrAzureStack] and I have been talking about hybrid backup with Azure Backup and hybrid patching with Azure Update Management. Recordings will be available shortly…