Hyper-V virtualized in a VM (Nested Virtualization) in Azure

Nested VirtualizationHey guys, how are you?!! Did you know that it is possible to have a virtualized hyper-v inside a Virtual Machine in Azure (Nested Virtualization)? Or even use this same hyper-v to run your Docker containers? This idea is interesting (usually for testing purposes), when you want a server environment as if it were in the on-premisses environment, where there is a need to have host Hyper-V management.
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Public Preview – Ultra SSD Disk in Azure

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Guys, Microsoft doesn’t stop, they just launched the Ultra SSD, supporting up to 160k IOPs!!! Wow!! They will range from 4GB to 64TB for data storage, with less than 1ms read/write latency. These disks were developed for work environments such as SAP, SQL, ORACLE, etc… that demand large amounts of IOPs and large amounts of transactions. Managed Ultra SSD Disk:

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Official link with more details:: https://azure.microsoft.com/pt-pt/blog/announcing-ultra-ssd-the-next-generation-of-azure-disks-technology-preview/

Microsoft is surprising with new disk sizes in Azure… Up to 32TB with 20k IOPs in a single disk!!!

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Hey guys, Microsoft is surprising us with great news for storage in Microsoft Azure. Now we can count on “Large Disks” or in Portuguese: “Discos Grandes”. We will have the possibility of having up to 32TB for storage in a single data disk, with an incredible 20k IOPS, that’s right, 20k IOPs. Quite a lot, isn’t it?

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