If you’re using android devices, this freebies may suitable for you. we found out some free ebook available on Google Play Store. These ebook is available for FREE and you can view it using Google “Play Book” app. The experience to view it on tablet was great and experience is similar like view it on Kindle.
Here is the screenshot of Microsoft Azure and System Center ebook that might interest you.
Just head to here to get it. Enjoy!
Today we had a workshop organized by Microsoft Malaysia. The workshop session was about Windows Server 2003 End of Support and here is our agenda.
I’ve presented three session during this workshop.
Feel free to view the slide
Session 1:- How Secure is Azure?
In this session, we have talked about security of Microsoft Azure that most customer concern with. We go through on physical security, communication traffic, storage, virtual machine, data, identity and access.
Session 2:- Common Scenario to Start With
In this session, we have talked about few customer scenario on migration and few scenario to migrate Windows Server 2003 workload to on-premise, Azure and Hybrid Cloud.
Session 3: MAP Toolkit
In this session, we have walkthrough on how MAP toolkit play an important roles to perform inventory, performance assessment and server consolidation on desktop, server, virtualization and VM readiness at Microsoft Azure
During NIC 4th Edition Conference, Ben Armstrong has presented on two sessions. Credit to Charbel who share the link.Feel free to view the recording.
Topic 1 :- Microsoft, Container and You
Topic 2:- Getting the best performance out of Hyper-V
Enjoy!
[Updated 16 Feb 2015]
Recently we have been given an access by 5Nine to test 5Nine Cloud Security Azure Pack Extension (Release Candidate) on our WAP environment. Here is our test lab environment setup
[Preparation]
[WAP – Admin Portal]
With 5Nine Cloud Security Azure Pack Extension,it provide a security solution that enables its users to manage firewall configurations and protect their Windows and Linux virtual machines.
Tenant has an option to subscribe Cloud Security on their WAP Plan.
At the moment of writing the extension only include with Virtual Firewall functionality only which provide a protection to isolate VMs and control traffic. Leverage integration into the Hyper-V Virtual Switch on the host and monitor all traffic flowing to and from the VMs to provide agentless security. Click here to check out the virtual firewall features.
With the plan created and set to Public, it is time for Tenant to subscribe.
[ WAP- Tenant Portal]
On Tenant Portal, you can enable cloud security on virtual machine that has deployed previously using WAP
By default, no rules has defined. Tenant has chance to configure security regulations themselves and increase their privacy. Now they can set up security policies, settings, and firewall rules directly through the Azure Pack portal.
To begin with, start by creating a “User defined security group”. By default, all Virtual machine will park under “All VMs” Group which will apply default rules when enable virtual firewall. We want to apply rules to certain member of the virtual machine.
Next step is create user define template which consist a set of rules that you want to apply to group.
In the templates, you can start to add rules/policy to it
End result:-Web server rules Template
With templates created, it is time to enable virtual firewall and apply to VM. Just click on Use Template and select “Web Server Rules template” and then click “Virtual Firewall ON”
That’s all for today. 5Nine Cloud Security Azure Pack Extension is free so give it a try and test on your Windows Azure Pack environment. Good luck!
More related post:-
To configure chargeback and use on Windows Azure Pack, the extension which support it is using Cloud Cruiser Express. During installation of Cloud Cruise Express, you will notice the installation will failed and to know more detail, you can click on the link which point to the installation log.
You will notice that error message mentioning about JRE issue on some part has skipped. Sorry, forget to take a screenshot and busy on troubleshooting to find the root cause. The log is located in C:\Program Files\CloudCruiser\Install\
We have encountered the same when performing the installation on a virtual machine running
[Resolution]
[Product ]
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2
Update to UR5
[Error]
Verify the integration between SCOM and VMM connection and status reported “Error”
[ Solution]
Remove the integration between SCOM and SCVMM and configure back the connection. This happen due to new MP version has updated after install UR5
Well, you may feel weird that got a request to convert Generation 2 VM to Generation 1 Virtual Machine. At this moment, we cannot find any tool to perform this task. However we found one!
One of the reason to convert Gen 2 to Gen 1 VM is due to migration an existing virtual machine to Microsoft Azure and at the moment of writing this article, only Gen 1 VM is supported. And you need to perform this type of conversion.
Meanwhile, If you have Vmware VM running EFI/GPT, you can convert to Generation 2 VM but not to Gen 1 by using some conversion tools.
So what’s the tool to convert Gen 2 to Gen 1 Virtual Machine?
The answer is….. Platespin Migrate 11.
[ Platespin Migrate 11 Console]
[ Our test result- Successful]
Job status:-
Generation 1 VM :
To know more about Platespin Migrate, please click here.
Do you know other tools that can perform similar jobs? If yes, please let us know.. Stay tuned..
During our research at our lab environment, we got a request to convert Vmware Virtual Machine to Hyper-V for Ubuntu Virtual Machine. After browsing for a while, not many tool out there that can convert EFI/Generation 2 VM and work for Ubuntu operating system.
Let have a look on our scenario:-
[ Hypervisor]
[ Conversion tool ]
You may wonder why we choose MVMC vs 5Nine V2V Easy Convertor. Well, customer environment is running EFI/GPT Vmware Virtual Machine. Therefore, MVMC 3.0 is not suitable because it does not support EFI conversion. We almost lose hope however manage to get help from 5Nine to get our job done.
A quick comparison of different between MVMC 3.0 vs 5Nine V2V Easy Convertor (table get from 5Nine website):
For more information, you can refer to here
[ Deployment]
Select source (Vmware host)
Select Virtual Machine
VM Configuration
If
Select Host target
Select Host Resources
Note:
Do remember that Generation 2 Virtual machine is using VHDX.
If Vmware VM is EFI and you select VHD format, then the conversion will failed.
Review the summary and has an option to turn on VM after conversion
After click Finish, source VM will be turned off for conversion.
[ Conclusion ]
We waited for a while having a cup of coffee. When we are back, the conversion has completed successful.
As our conclusion of V2V conversion, we can converted
by just using 5Nine V2V Easy Convertor Tool. You can use this tool to try convert other operating system. 
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We was trying to deploy a VM from VMM 2012 R2 to Vmware host. We have completed the integration to Vmware Vcenter and imported Vmware VM Template. However encountered below error message when deploy a VM
Product:-
Error message:-
The virtualization software on host does not support setting NumLock. Specify a host that is running Windows Hyper-V and then try the operation again
ID: 10638
Resolution:-
It is time for us to look on how to restore Azure Virtual Machine Configuration. We assumed that you probably has accidentally delete the VM configuration however the virtual disk is still intact.
[Configuration]
Use Import-AzureVM cmdlet to restore and create backup VM Service Name and bind to existing virtual network. By default, Export-VM cmdlet does not export the configuration of the virtual network
| Import-AzureVM –Path “E:\Testbackup01.xml” | New-AzureVM –ServiceName “TestBackup01” –VnetName “ms4uvnet-azure” |
Condition for import to be successful:-
Error if import without vnet : “The virtual network ID cannot be null or empty”
[Result ]
Result after import
VM Configuration has successfully imported and VM will automatically power on. In our next round, we will check out on how to restore a virtual disk.
More information:-
Previously we have configure blob snapshot to backup virtual disk on Azure. Blob Snapshot did not backup the VM configuration. To do so, we need to use Export-AzureVM cmdlet.
[ Configuration ]
Get azure vm list and identify your virtual machine service name and name.
| Get-AzureVM |
Backup VM Configuration file and store at your local computer either when VM in power off state or running state.
| Export-AzureVM –ServiceName “VM Service Name” –Name “VM Name” –Path E:\vmname.xml |
[XML result]
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> |
Do keep the XML file in safe location and may come handy when restoration. Stay tuned for our next post about virtual disk restoration and configuration file
More information:-
