Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines overview

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Azure keeps expanding its compute portfolio, and one of the recent additions is the FXv2-series Virtual Machines. This new VM family is designed with a strong focus on CPU performance, making it particularly interesting for workloads that depend heavily on compute efficiency.

If you are working with performance-sensitive applications, this is definitely a series worth understanding.

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Implementing Azure Virtual Network Manager IP address management

As Azure environments grow, managing IP address space becomes increasingly important. What starts as a small set of virtual networks can quickly evolve into dozens or even hundreds of interconnected networks supporting multiple applications, environments, and regions.

Without proper planning and governance, IP addressing can become fragmented, overlapping, and difficult to maintain. This is where Azure Virtual Network Manager introduces valuable capabilities that help organizations manage networking at scale.

One of the key areas where this service can bring operational improvements is IP address management and network planning across large Azure environments.

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Draft and Deploy workflow in Azure Firewall explained

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One of the challenges when managing network security at scale is ensuring that configuration changes are introduced in a controlled and predictable way. This becomes even more important when working with critical components such as Azure Firewall policies.

A recent improvement introduces a Draft and Deploy workflow, which helps bring more structure and safety to how firewall configurations are managed.

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Resilient by Design: Azure Migrate Now Supports ZRS Disks

Hello Azure Community,

If high availability is a core part of your architecture strategy, there’s a new feature in public preview you should take note of — Azure Migrate now supports migration to Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) disks.

This enhancement means that during your migration journey, you can now directly target ZRS-enabled Premium SSD or Standard SSD disks for workloads that require zone-level resiliency. And the best part? Azure Migrate takes care of mapping and migrating eligible disks in supported regions.

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ASR Now Supports Trusted Launch VMs on Linux: Secure, Compliant, and Generally Available

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We’ve seen a steady evolution in Azure Site Recovery (ASR) when it comes to secure VM deployments — and now there’s another step forward: ASR support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs running Linux is now generally available.

If you work with high-compliance or security-sensitive workloads, you’ve probably already encountered Trusted Launch, which adds Secure Boot and virtual TPM (vTPM) to your Azure Generation 2 VMs. Until now, this kind of protection with ASR was only available for Windows-based VMs. That gap has been closed.

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