Girish Azure Cloud Architect Blogs

Networking is a critical component of any cloud infrastructure. IT teams need to connect resources and optimize application performance -- all of which depends on solid network architecture. Azure Virtual Network (VNet):   An Azure VNet is an isolated network within the Azure cloud that enables enterprises to securely connect cloud resources, such as VMs. Can create multiple VNets within an Azure subscription or region.  Azure Load Balancer:  Azure Load Balancer is a Layer 4 load balancer designed to ensure high availability. IT teams can configure the service to perform internet-facing load balancing, which balances incoming traffic from the internet among Azure VMs, as well as internal load balancing, which manages traffic among VMs in a VPN. Azure Application Gateway:  Azure Application Gateway is an application delivery controller service that offers Layer 7 load balancing. Its features include HTTP load balancing, URL-based content rout...

How do I create an Azure Storage Account​? This is step-by-step instruction to create an Azure Storage Account using the legacy Azure Portal: ​Visit  https://manage.windowsazure.com Go to  Storage .​ Click  New . Select  Storage  >  Quick Create . ​​Choose a URL for the storage. ​​Select the location of the storage. In the Replication field, select  Geo-Redundant . Click  ​ Create Storage Account . Now the storage account appears in the storage list. ​​​This is step-by-step instruction to create an Azure Storage Account using the new Azure Portal: ​Visit ​ https://portal.az​ure.com​ Click  New .​ Select  Storage  >  Storage account . Enter a name for your storage account.​ Choose  Resource manager​  for the Deployment model. Choose  Blob storage  for the Account kind.​​ Note:  If you are using the v2 endpoint for a document migration, you need to select  STORAGEV2 (ge...

  In this article I will talk about Availabilty Set with Fault Domains and Update Domains Availability Set: Availability Sets ensure that the Azure virtual machines are deployed across multiple isolated hardware nodes in a cluster. By deploying your vms across multiple hardware nodes Azure ensures that if hardware or software failure happens within Azure, only a sub-set of your virtual machines are impacted and your overall solution is safe and in working condition. Availability set provides redundancy for your virtual machines. Availability set spreads your virtual machines across multiple fault domains and update domains. If you want to leverage Microsoft’s 99.95% SLA from Microsoft you must place your VMs inside availability set except your VMs are having premium storage. Following are the 3 main scenarios which can cause your vms in Azure: Unplanned Hardware Maintainance Events -  When Azure platform predicts that the hardware or any platform components associated to a phy...