January 2024 - eduardokieling.com

Configure multi-site resilient ExpressRoute circuits with Azure

Hello guys,

In the event of an outage at one of your locations, if you wish to maintain your private connection to Microsoft, Azure’s newly announced feature, the ExpressRoute guided portal experience, might be of interest to you.

This feature, which is currently in public preview, makes it easier for you to configure multi-site resilient ExpressRoute circuits and connect them to a virtual network gateway. It also provides information such as distance between the peering-locations (sites) and traffic engineering recommendations to help you make informed configuration decisions.

Introducing Azure Business Continuity Center: A Public Preview for Enhancing Your Business Resilience

Hello guys,

Business continuity is a vital aspect of any organization’s digital strategy, especially in the face of potential disruptions such as natural disasters, cyberattacks, or human errors. To help you achieve your business continuity goals, we are excited to announce the Public Preview of Azure Business Continuity (ABC) Center, a new initiative that enables you to govern, monitor, operate, and analyze protection at scale across all regions.

How to enable Azure Site Recovery on Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2

Azure Site Recovery is a service that helps you keep your data safe and your apps and workloads online when planned and unplanned outages occur. It allows you to replicate your Azure VMs to another region and failover to the secondary region in case of a disaster.

But what if you are using Premium SSD v2 disks for your Azure VMs? Premium SSD v2 is a new offering that provides the most advanced block storage solution for IO-intensive enterprise workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies and high IOPS and throughput at a low cost. Premium SSD v2 disks are currently available in select regions and can only be attached to zonal VMs.