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Azure SQL Elastic Pool max size lower than max size of database included in pool

I am trying to save some money by utilizing Azure SQL Elastic Pools. I have a bunch of databases which only peak in usage once a while, so having them in a pool would be optimal. The problem now is ...
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Why are cloud platforms like Azure or AWS more expensive than dedicated server providers like Hetzner, OVH or Strato?

I'm wondering why cloud platforms like Azure or AWS tend to be more expensive than dedicated server providers like Hetzner, OVH or Strato. What factors contribute to this pricing discrepancy, and are ...
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What Does Avoiding Vendor/Provider Lock in Mean in Cloud Operations?

Am a relatively noob machine learning engineer interested in DevOps and Software Development, sorry for the vague and opinion based question. But multiple blogs and tutorials teaching some cloud ...
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"Request timed out" asp.net error in web application after server migration to Azure

My company has migrated all of our on-prem servers to Azure. We are in the process of functional testing our application. So far, we have found no errors save for one. Whenever we click on a button on ...
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selecting vCPU harware family while creating VMs on AWS or Azure or Google compute

Do the AWS or Azure or Google compute allow user to select vCPU architecture/Family while creating a VM? Is that possible if I have to specifically create a VM with Xeon family processor and another ...
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Hosting of inconsistent workloads in Azure

In our company we have a lot of algorithms which need to process large datasets. The time to run these algorithms differs from a few minutes to hours. They also need to be run ad-hoc from multiple ...
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What is the best way to setup FTP server on Azure Cloud

Is it possible to use just Azure Files. Or is a VM required with FTP server configured and a link to Azure Files. The data is expected to be 100GB or more.
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How can you connect Azure Cloud Services (Classic) Defender to Azure Security Centre?

Given Azure Cloud Services (Classic, not Extended Support) using Family 6 (Windows 2019). Windows Defender is enabled and scanning files. How can the logs and scan results be surfaced to the Azure ...
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unable to connect to VM using SSH and unable to connect deployed MSSQL container in VM

can anyone help me on below issue. I have added inbound rules with high priority, but still i am unable to communicate with MSSQL (1433) container deployed on Linux VM and unable to ssh. getting below ...
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What is the best resources Azure family size for E-Commerce

I'm trying to increase the Azure VM family size from B series to be bigger, I'm hosing web application that runs E-Commerce , As you expect multiple product photos, customer browsing the products I ...
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Error on deployment web api mvc4 on azure server

The requested VM tier is currently not available in Southeast Asia for this subscription. Please try another tier or deploy to a different location here is my api code: using System; using System....
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Deployable services on Azure Stacks HCI

What is the list of the resources/services that can be deployed to a hybrid Azure Stacks HCI appliance? Context I am doing an assessment about whether existing on-public-cloud applications can be ...
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Safe to delete managed incremental snapshots on Azure?

Incremental snapshots of managed disks on Azure is a relatively new thing, and is not completely documented, so I have a crucial question: If I have incremental snapshots A, B, C and D of a disk (the ...
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How can i connect my Vms connect to each other over virtual private network in azure?

How can i connect my Vms connect to each other over virtual private network in azure? should i have to do extra configutaion of just from one vm if i use private ip and port of other vm can i access ...
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Is there a per-connected-time (and per-storage-time) billed PostgreSQL server available in an european cloud?

A friend running a business with currently roughly 30 (somewhat elastic) employees asked me to make an existing personal/ desktop database available to his remote and somewhat distributed employees ...
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How can I determine if it is cost-effective to move my site to cloud solution?

I have a large, busy site; it currently runs completely on a dedicated server that I rent each month for ~$700. It has three parts that I think I could carve off to a cloud solution: Media (image/...
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Do all cloud storage services store data as objects instead of files? [closed]

I've been using AWS S3, and I'm not happy that I can't do things like an rsync from the Linux server to do a backup on S3. It's because S3 stores objects I'm told and not files. Is this something all ...
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Error: IO error: lock /home/admin/chain/LOCK: Resource temporarily unavailable

After logging into my Azure linux vm through ssh. I cd Error: IO error: lock /home/admin_dennis/.hsd/chain/LOCK: Resource temporarily unavailable
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How to do development for public cloud deployment locally on-premises

What if I want to do local development for cloud deployment? What options do I have? I have seen some hybrid approaches(Azure Stack, AWS Outpost), there is also this abstract layer toolkits(libCloud, ...
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Is there an exteded switch role for Azure?

I have been using extended switch roles on AWS. Now I want to use a similar functionality or extension for Azure also. I searched on web but did not find much regarding this. Following is the link to ...
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Azure VM backup

I am wondering how Administrators are handling Azure retention of decommissioned servers. We use our Azure infrastructure for development. Once we are finished with a server, I want to download the VM ...
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What TLDs can be used with Azure?

I am a newbie in the Azure world but am planning to use the App service to upload a PHP demo app. However, I was reading in the documentation that I can buy certain supported domains inside Azure but,...
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Can I run my onprem domain and Azure AD Domain Services at the same time?

I currently have a hybrid environment that's syncing with O365/Azure. Can I run my on prom domain along with Azure AD Domain services at the same time with no conflicts? I'm trying to set up a backup ...
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Query regarding Azure SQL database setup

I am new to Azure and I am required to create a Azure SQL database. So far I have created a Azure SQL server and post that sql database. Now my main concern comes as to how to access that database? ...
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Manage WIndows clients in the Azure cloud

I'm looking for a solution for the following scenario: We are planing to install several Windows 10 systems (about 30 to 50 PCs). We want to create user centrally, and also want to push group ...
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Moving On Premises Infrastructure into Azure/AWS

I am new to Server Fault (coming from StackOverflow) and please tell me if this is not the right place to ask this general question. Basically our company is trying to move away from an on premises ...
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Cloud instance start time comparison [closed]

Is anyone keeping track of the performance of instance start times from the various cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP etc.)? Obviously this will depend on a lot of factors e.g. instance type, instance ...
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Azure cloud only with on-premesis file server

Long time reader. First time poster! Im a sysadmin at a small company. We utilize Azure + Office 365 and use a cloud-first approach. All Windows 10 PCs are Azure AD joined (we have no local AD). We ...
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Azure ARM Templates for deleting the resources

I know we can create infrastructure using ARM templates. Can we do the same for deleting the Resources. I dont want to delete all the entire resource group but few resources in a resource group. Is ...
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MS Azure VM drive mess

I'm new to Azure and I already hate it :D Anyway, I'm trying to do a simple task - create a VM with 8 cores, >=8GB RAM, 128GB drive (gonna run Ubuntu server on it). Just ONE OS drive. Nothing else. ...
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Can Azure cloud servers use customer-owned IPs?

Question: Can Microsoft Azure servers appear to use customer-owned public IP addresses? My company is migrating on-premise VMs to Azure cloud. Some of our servers use static public IPv4 addresses (...
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Azure cloud VM change letter of temporary drive

In azure cloud when you start a windows image the running vm will have a temporary drive D: where the page file is set. Is any way I can call the api (powershel, az cli etc.) and be able to specify ...
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How can I create the large disks in Azure that are currently in public preview?

Azure started supporting extra large disk sizes in September 2018 (as described here) as a public preview, currently available only in the West Central US region. I'm trying to create a new S60 (4-8 ...
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Azure File Share - Custom URL/file

Hi Serverfault community, Does Azure's File Share provide an individual URL for each file I place on "transfer area"? Is it possible to grant permission to individual files but deny the final user to ...
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Updating Expiring Keys - Azure OS Disk Encryption

Whilst day dreaming at my desk this morning, something occurred to me and I have not been able to find an answer of yet. So I am hoping someone may shine some light for me or just have a good ...
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How to expose HTTP port on azure VM

I am trying to expose port 7445 on my azure VM (Windows server 2008) for HTTP (not HTTPS) requests, I have added an inbound rule for this port still cant access it. Dose any one have idea what I am ...
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How to automatically start a cloud windows instance periodically?

I have zero experience with windows server management, azure, etc. and therefore asking for an advice here. There exist an automation script that needs to be executed every N days, it takes ~10 ...
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Is it safe to run do-release-upgrade on a cloud VM?

I have a few Ubuntu VMs on Azure running Server 17.10 and I'm wondering if it's safe to upgrade them to 18.04.1 LTS using do-release-upgrade. If so, what precautions should I take?
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Azure Backup - Is last backup copy retained indefinitely?

If I enable Azure Backup on a VM and, after a few recovery points are saved, I disable Azure Backup, is the newest recovery point kept indefinitely, regardless of the retention policy? I saw the ...
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Automatic update the file in cloud whenever database of java standalone application is changed

I have created a java standalone application for windows and used SQLite as database and now i want to connect this application with azure so that database can be saved on cloud an anyone help me how ...
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Azure Security Center - Would the Monitoring Agent work on AWS and GCP VMs

I'm looking at Azure Security Center. I know it can be used to monitor not just VMs on Azure, but also VMs outside of Azure using an installable Monitoring Agent. My question is whether this agent ...
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issue when trying migration via Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

I want to migrate my Esxi VM from on promise to Azure cloud. I've found solution which provides it to me. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter, provides migrating to Azure Cloud. During migration ...
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Is It possible to split a reserved VM on Azure?

Is it possible to split a reserved VM to 2 VMs with half specs of original reserved VM? I know it's possible on AWS EC2 but they should from within the same family without cost changing. Example; ...
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How can I automatically deallocate an Azure instance once a script is complete?

I want to spin up an Azure Linux instance, process some data and then have the instance automatically enter the stopped (deallocated) state to avoid further billing. Is it possible to do this, ...
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Azure App Service IIS - Going down

I hope you can help me here since Im more a DEV than a Server / Infra person. I have a site hosted in AZURE, with the following tier. It is a fairly simple site TuGrieta where you allow people to ...
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Unable to see shared workspace in Azure ML studio

We are collaborating with multiple people on Azure project. We are sharing one ResourceGroup under MSDN Subscription. I have been assigned the role Owner under that subscription. I see all the Azure ...
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Cannot Enter-AzureRMVM - Azure CloudShell (PowerShell)

I have a SQL Server on IaaS Windows 2016 using the default marketplace image (SQL Server 2016 SP1 Enterprise on Windows Server 2016) today, after fighting the East US region problem yesterday which ...
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Alternative way to deploy Azure VM from generalised image with AzureRM

I am wondering in what way should I spin-up windows VM for Azure from generalized image, in order to add custom settings (from what I know it's impossible to customise the VM which was deployed from ...
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Azure AD auth with on premises servers

Is it possible to have Azure AD authentication for all users in an office, yet have them use the same credentials to access local servers? If so, how would I set that up? A little background: We are ...
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Azure Cloud Shell history persist across sessions

My Azure Cloud Shell history does not persist across sessions (which time out after 10 mins so this is annoying). The .bashrc has # append to the history file, don't overwrite it shopt -s histappend ...
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