Free Microsoft webinars on Operations Management Suite
Myself and my MVP colleague Marc Kean, with the help of Microsoft, have released a series of 4 webinars which covers the basics of Azure OMS. https://info.microsoft.com/AP-OMS-WBNR-FY17-11Nov-15-HowwillyoumanageyourHybridITenvironmentLogAnalytics-269151.html In https://info.microsoft.com/AP-OMS-WBNR-FY17-11Nov-15-HowwillyoumanageyourHybridITenvironmentLogAnalytics-269151.html of this new webinar series, learn how to separate the signal from the noise by gaining deeper insights into applications and workloads with Log Analytics: Collect, correlate and act on log data from multiple systems in a single view. Map and understand the application dependencies, and address incidents quickly. https://info.microsoft.com/AP-OMS-WBNR-FY17-11Nov-15-HowwillyoumanageyourHybridITenvironmentLogAnalytics-269151.html https://info.microsoft.com/AP-OMS-WBNR-FY17-11Nov-22-HowwillyoumanageyourhybridITEnvironment-272590_02OnDemandRegistration-ForminHero.html In https://info.microsoft.com/AP-OMS-WBNR-FY17-11Nov-22-HowwillyoumanageyourhybridITEnvironment-272590_02OnDemandRegistration-ForminHero.html of this new webinar series, learn how to take advantage of the economies of Cloud technology to get enterprise class Back-up and DR with OMS Availability. Restore applications and services quickly with disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). Orchestrate replication, create customised recovery plans, and easily test failover. Extend on-premises data protection tools with purpose built enterprise backup services. Remove the cost and complexity of Tape back-up. https://info.microsoft.com/AP-OMS-WBNR-FY17-11Nov-22-HowwillyoumanageyourhybridITEnvironment-272590_02OnDemandRegistration-ForminHero.html https://info.microsoft.com/AP-OMS-WBNR-FY17-11Nov-29-HowwillyoumanageyourHybridITenvironment-272784_02OnDemandRegistration-ForminHero.html In https://info.microsoft.com/AP-OMS-WBNR-FY17-11Nov-29-HowwillyoumanageyourHybridITenvironment-272784_02OnDemandRegistration-ForminHero.html of this new webinar series, learn how to prevent, detect, and respond to threats with the increased visibility that OMS Security and Compliance provides. Visualise outbound malicious IP traffic and malicious threat types. Understand the security posture of your entire environment regardless of platform. Capture all security log and event data required for a compliance audit. Save time and resources when producing a security audit with a searchable and exportable log and event data set. https://info.microsoft.com/AP-OMS-WBNR-FY17-11Nov-29-HowwillyoumanageyourHybridITenvironment-272784_02OnDemandRegistration-ForminHero.html https://info.microsoft.com/AP-HYBD-WBNR-FY17-12Dec-06-HowwillyoumanageyourHybridITenvironmentPart4Automation275348_02OnDemandRegistration-ForminHero.html In https://info.microsoft.com/AP-HYBD-WBNR-FY17-12Dec-06-HowwillyoumanageyourHybridITenvironmentPart4Automation275348_02OnDemandRegistration-ForminHero.html of this new webinar series, learn how to use Automation to take control of your environment by remediating operational issues & get time back to focus on work that adds business value. Consistently deploy, monitor, and automatically update your IT resources, with change management and patching solutions to enable environmental compliance. Use familiar PowerShell skills to automate complex and repetitive tasks. Extend cloud automation capabilities to your on-premises datacentre without human intervention. https://info.microsoft.com/AP-HYBD-WBNR-FY17-12Dec-06-HowwillyoumanageyourHybridITenvironmentPart4Automation275348_02OnDemandRegistration-ForminHero.htmlAmping up your disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery
If you are in the process of building or revising your business continuity plans, it’s worth taking a look at Azure Site Recovery (ASR). ASR is a disaster recovery service that allows you to failover on-premises applications running on Linux and Windows and using VMware and Hyper-V to Azure in the event of an outage. Today’s episode of Microsoft Mechanics walks you through how Azure Site Recovery can help you to keep your applications available, including setting up replication for your on-premises applications to Azure and testing that the solution meets your compliance needs. Read more about it in the Azure blog.Upgrade classic Backup and Site Recovery vaults to ARM Recovery Services vaults
Today, we are pleased to offer seamless upgrade of classic Backup or Site Recovery vaults to ARM based Recovery Services vaults. Last May 2016, we announced the General Availability of Recovery Services (RS) vault based on the Azure Resource Manager for Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery. Since then, we announced many new features for both services which are available only with Recovery Services vaults. The new upgrade feature allows customers on the older classic vaults of both Backup and ASR to seamlessly upgrade to RS vault with minimal downtime, no loss of data, recovery points or configuration settings, and take advantage of all the new features available with RS vaults. Read about it on the Azure blog.Cloud migration and disaster recovery of load balanced multi-tier applications
Support for Microsoft Azure virtual machines availability sets has been a highly anticipated capability by many Azure Site Recovery customers who are using the product for either cloud migration or disaster recovery of applications. Today, I am excited to announce that Azure Site Recovery now supports creating failed over virtual machines in an availability set. This in turn allows that you can configure an internal or external load balancer to distribute traffic between multiple virtual machines of the same tier of an application. With the Azure Site Recovery promise of cloud migration and disaster recovery of applications, this first-class integration with availability sets and load balancers makes it simpler for you to run your failed over applications on Microsoft Azure with the same guarantees that you had while running them on the primary site. We look at how to failover or migrate a load balanced multi-tier application using Azure Site Recovery. Read about it in the Azure blog.Azure Site Recovery now available in five new regions
To increase our service global footprint, we recently announced the expansion of Azure Site Recovery to Canada and UK regions. Apart from these two new countries, we have also deployed our service in West US2, making it available to all non-government Azure regions in the United States. With this expansion, Azure Site Recovery is now available in 27 regions worldwide including Australia East, Australia Southeast, Brazil South, Central US, East Asia, East US, East US2, Japan East, Japan West, North Europe, North Central US, Southeast Asia, South Central US, West Central US, West US2, US Gov Virginia, US Gov Iowa, West Europe, West US, North East China, East China, South India,Central India, UK South, UK West, Canada East, and Canada Central. Read about it on the Azure blog.One-click disaster recovery of applications using Azure Site Recovery
Disaster recovery is not only about replicating your virtual machines but also about end to end application recovery that is tested multiple times, error free, and stress free when disaster strikes, which are the Azure Site Recovery promises. If you have never seen your application run in Microsoft Azure, chances are that when a real disaster happens, the virtual machines may just boot, but your business may remain down. Why use Azure Site Recovery “recovery plans”? Recovery plans help you plan for a systematic recovery process by creating small independent units that you can manage. These units will typically represent an application in your environment. Recovery plan not only allows you to define the sequence in which the virtual machines start, but also helps you automate common tasks during recovery. Read about it on the Azure blog.
Azure Site recovery clearing locks
Recently had an issue in re-protecting VM's following failover to a secondary region. Tried everything and couldn't resolve eventually after speaking with Azure support i ran the below script and resolved the issue with locks not clearing on failed over VM's cls $subscriptionId = Read-Host 'What is your Azure Subscription ID?' $rgName = Read-Host 'Specify the name of the Resource group in which your VM is located' $vmName = Read-Host 'Specify the name of the VM' # Sign-in with Azure account credentials Login-AzureRmAccount # Select Azure Subscription Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId # Remove any locks $locks = Get-AzureRmResourceLock -ResourceGroupName $rgName -ResourceName $vmName -ResourceType Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines if ($locks -ne $null -and $locks.Count -ge 0){ $canDelete = Read-Host 'The VM has locks that could prevent cleanup of Azure Site Recovery stale links left from previous protection. Do you want the locks deleted to ensure cleanup goes smoothly? Reply with Y/N.' if ($canDelete.ToLower() -eq "y"){ Foreach ($lock in $locks) { $lockId = $lock.LockId Remove-AzureRmResourceLock -LockId $lockId -Force Write-Host "Removed Lock $lockId for $vmName" } } } $linksResourceId = 'https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/' + $subscriptionId + '/providers/Microsoft.Resources/links' $vmId = '/subscriptions/' + $subscriptionId + '/resourceGroups/' + $rgName + '/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/' + $vmName + '/' Write-Host $("Deleting links for $vmId using resourceId: $linksResourceId") $links = @(Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceId $linksResourceId| Where-Object {$_.Properties.sourceId -match $vmId -and $_.Properties.targetId.ToLower().Contains("microsoft.recoveryservices/vaults")}) Write-Host "Links to be deleted" $links #Delete all links which are of type Foreach ($link in $links) { Write-Host $("Deleting link " + $link.Name) Remove-AzureRmResource -ResourceId $link.ResourceId -Force } $links = @(Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceId $linksResourceId| Where-Object {$_.Properties.sourceId -match $vmId -and $_.Properties.targetId.ToLower().Contains("/protecteditemarmid/")}) Write-Host "Cross subscription Links to be deleted" $links #Delete all links which are of type Foreach ($link in $links) { Write-Host $("Deleting link " + $link.Name) Remove-AzureRmResource -ResourceId $link.ResourceId -Force } Write-Host $("Deleted all links ")General availability of Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and Hyper-V
We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and Hyper-V. This tool helps VMware and Hyper-V enterprise customers to understand their on-premises networking requirements, Microsoft Azure compute and storage requirements for successful Azure Site Recovery replication, and test failover or failover of their applications. Apart from understanding infrastructure requirements, our customers also needed a way to estimate the total disaster recovery (DR) cost to Azure. In this GA release, we have added detailed estimated DR cost to Azure for your environment. You can generate a report with the latest Azure prices based on your subscription, the offer that is associated with your subscription, and the target Azure region for the specified currency. The Deployment Planner report gives you cost for compute, storage, network, and Azure Site Recovery licenses. Read about it in the Azure blog.
