Category Azure

Five [easy] Public Cloud Use Cases for the Enterprise

  Don’t know where to start? Don’t know how to start? Below are five(5) initial use cases to understand how and why the public cloud will drive down costs (not just capital, but operational as well) while simplifying IT Operations in your organization…. Continue Reading →

Value of a Cloud Management Platform with Public Cloud

The more I dive into public cloud services across GCP, AWS, and Azure and their native tooling, the more the idea that the value of the CMP(Cloud Management Platform/Portal) is diminished and I start to think the need is just… Continue Reading →

Automating Azure PowerShell Logins

  After messing with Azure and four or five orchestration engines at the same time and not having one single good way to authenticate against AzureAD, I dig some digging and have put together about 78 pieces of info into… Continue Reading →

Public Cloud “Lock-in” – Is this really a thing?

  Why yes, it is a thing as I am writing an article about it. BUT – Is it something that an enterprise should be concerned with, ever? In my travels of visiting all sectors of industry in 2017 (and… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure in vRA Pt.10 – Azure SQL PaaS

As the cloud culture and message evolves one of the main drums that beat is the simplicity of public cloud services which include Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).  IaaS is cool, useful, and easy to spin up but IaaS is just one of… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure in vRA Pt.9 – com.microsoft.windowsazure.exception.ServiceException: ExpiredAuthenticationToken

After a little hiatus from blogging, I am back at it and my first order of business was to create a few more items around Azure + vRA that were top of mind. After logging into the lab after a… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure in vRA Pt.8 – Automated startup and shutdown of Azure VMs

The ability to shutdown workloads in the cloud based off of workload type, application, environment, etc which can be crazy powerful… and will save you and/or your company a few bucks. In this video, I will walk you through the… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure in vRA Pt.7 – Modifying the Azure Catalog Item

Looking back at my first vlog in this series, I showed you how to “enable” the ability to modify the OOTB vRealize Automation Azure XaaS blueprint and vRealize Orchestrator workflows to enable tasks like AD creation or change control creation for… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure in vRA Pt.6 – Changing the Instance Type of an Azure VM

The Azure portal has a really cool feature that allows its consumers to quickly change the instance type, which in essence is adding or removing CPU cores, Memory, possibly disks and disk types. In this vlog I will show you… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure in vRA Pt. 5 – Changing the Instance Types Available in vRA

The OOTB instance types VMware provided us are pretty old and need to be updated. Also, they frequently run “PROMO” instance types at steep discounts and lastly, maybe you don’t want your users spinning up G5 instance types which are nearly… Continue Reading →

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