Disaster Recovery – how to recover your application if a disaster occurs. Disaster Recovery is part of what we call “resilience” today. Resilience is the how to ensure that our applications are reliable or recoverable. This is a different approach and view of the more legacy “disaster recovery” environment where a cold (or warm) standby […]
As a continuation of my AZGateway migration scripts I entered the scripting world again for the migration of VMs. As anything worth doing is worth doing twice I actually wrote the entire script and then found out the Microsoft Azure SAP team already had something lined up. While their script did migrate VM’s there were […]
As promised, I would cover Availability Zones a bit more in the next few posts. If your Azure region supports Availability Zones you probably want to use them. Yes the services are a bit more expensive but you gain a higher SLA and the ability to adopt an active-active infrastructure. This active-active infrastructure usually starts […]
Microsoft is working hard to make “Availability Zones” available for most of their primary Azure regions. What is an Availability Zone will be covered later in another blog post, including why you should use it, what advantages it brings and more importantly (as most of the previous is covered by Microsoft documentation) – how do […]