Introduction As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, managing distributed infrastructure efficiently while maintaining security and compliance becomes a critical challenge. Microsoft’s Azure Arc Gateway for Azure Local, currently in public preview, addresses this by streamlining network configurations and reducing the complexity of connecting on-premises environments to Azure. This blog explores the Azure Arc […]
Category: Azure
Failed to trigger deployment for Azure Local instance
Problem I was recently test deploying Azure Local instances in my lab and hit an error were the deployment failed to trigger. This was after the validation stage where I wanted to kick off the cloud deployment, but I couldn’t proceed due to this error. Error Message Cause This was caused by me and the […]
Logical Networks
In this blog we are going to take a look at Logical Networks for Azure Stack HCI, what they are, why you need them and how to create them. What are they? Logical networks (abbreviated to LNets) are the Azure resources that represent physical networks and are self-contained projections of the on-premises physical networks. Logical […]
Arc Enabled VMs and the Resource Bridge
In this blog we are going to look at Arc Enabled VMs where you can deploy and manage VMs on your on-premises Azure Stack HCI Clusters, directly from Azure. You can do what now? Yes, that’s right, you can use the Azure Portal to deploy and control VMs on your local infrastructure clusters. This functionality […]
Automatic Virtual Machine Activation
What is it? Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA) is an optional feature in Azure Stack HCI that you can use to activate Windows Server VMs running on Azure Stack HCI hosts. Why is this useful? Individual VMs don’t have to be connected to the internet. Only licensed host servers with internet connectivity are required. License management is […]
Azure Benefits on Azure Stack HCI
What are they? Since Azure Stack HCI is considered an Azure service, Microsoft is enabling you to run a range of workloads and capabilities that you would usually only able to run in Azure, directly on your own Azure Stack HCI on-premises and edge environments. Check out the official article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure-stack/hci/manage/azure-benefits Why is this useful […]
Azure Extended Networks
In this blog post I’m going to discuss Azure Extended Networks, why you might need them (but ideally shouldn’t) and how to set them up. What are they? Azure Extended Networks enable you to stretch an on-premises subnet into Azure to let on-premises virtual machines keep their original on-premises private IP addresses when migrating to […]