@scottalanmiller said in Moving Away From Azure To Colo Server:

@fuznutz04 said in Moving Away From Azure To Colo Server:

@nashbrydges

I'll be in the same boat too. I get some free credits for Azure as well, and I can honestly say that I have never once had an issue with it. However, once my free credits expire, the costs of the VM will be far too expensive to keep it there.

We have free credits and we found them to be worthless.

I can't say the same, but I can say that after the credits run out, I won't be using them most likely.

I guess I am one of the lucky ones who just has a good experience with Azure so far. (that I have noticed) No downtime at all in over 2 years. I am in the East cost data centers. Perhaps that makes a difference.

@ambarishrh said in Office 365 Reports:

Not sure if you've checked the compliance center in O365. There are lot of audit tools available like Manage Engine o365 audit. I just found this as well (haven't tested but looks interesting)
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Office-365-Auditing-Tool-01747cd4

Hey, yes I have checked the Compliance Center. I've setup some alerts from here but it's hit and miss really. Then you have the Azure portal which gives you other reports. They're scattered everywhere. I'll check out the link you referenced. Thanks

@black3dynamite said in Migrating on-premises VHD files to Azure is not rocket science:

I can believe Azure still doesn't support vhdx.

Although if you use an Generation 2 VM it is the only file supported
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/dn282285(v=ws.11)
Still open case with Azure
https://feedback.azure.com/forums/216843-virtual-machines/suggestions/4271962-upload-vhdx

@flaxking said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:

I've heard that GitLab uses Azure in order to test their resiliency

They do, it's caused a bit of outages there.

@storageninja said in VMware on Azure?:

@nerdydad said in VMware on Azure?:

Kind of interesting in concept. Charges has to be outrageous though because one would be paying for both Azure and VMware licenses at the same time. Suppose Azure annually would be comparable to physical hardware on-prem throughout its lifetime.

Recently I discovered that I can restore a VM from Veeam on a VMware workload to Azure. I thought that was a twist.

The issue with doing a restore like that is it's typically a one way trip as...

Transit costs OUT of azure suck. You would have to switch to doing agent-based backups to get data out.

In the case of this announcement, it's unilateral (With VMware saying they were not consulted). Considering VMware licensing for hosting providers is a special program and Microsoft is not in it this leads to speculation that...

Are they trying to get another partner to deploy/manage it? This would likely breach the EULA on the hosting program as it prevented co-marketing/white label stuff like this the last time I read it.

Microsoft thinks it can offer vSphere as a service without joining the VMware Cloud Provider Program (This will likely be met with legal).

Azure is known to run on custom hardware servers. Unless they've got DL380's or something certified this will not be supported.


Wow, just wow.

@syko24 free... and useless:

Limitations of the free license:

The free license is limited to five locks per day which means the free edition defends your system against five unique attacks per day. [...] The free license does not contain reporting (like the PRO edition does).

Also, no official support for Windows Server 2016.

https://cyberarms.net/download-pricing/installation-configuration.aspx

Amazon and Azure both offer many different storage methods. Can you tell us more about how the data is stored and where you will put it? Is this between VM, or is this storage like S3?

@scottalanmiller said in Azure & "CentOS based" Compute node:

@fuznutz04 said in Azure & "CentOS based" Compute node:

@scottalanmiller said in Azure & "CentOS based" Compute node:

But in the past CentOS was there as a direct option. We used it and have customer still using it.

I wonder if MS will offer a base image again in the future with their new "commitment to Linux" claim.

Their commitment was never to CentOS. Ubuntu and Suse.

Ahh, missed that detail.