Aidan Finn

In this “how do I ..?” article I will explain how you can use Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to migrate machines, VMware, physical, or Hyper-V, running Windows or Linux, to Azure with minimized downtime.

Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Cool Blob Storage in Azure, a new more affordable way to archive files in the cloud. In this post, I’ll explain what Cool Storage is, what Hot Storage is, how they are priced, how to deploy Cool Storage, and what you’ll see in the Azure Portal.

In this article Aidan will show you how to migrate the data disks of an Azure virtual machine (in Azure Resource Manager or ARM) from a Standard Storage (HDD-based) account to a Premium Storage (SSD-based) storage account to improve performance (more IOPS and less latency).

In this post I will show you how to create a route table and routes, and associate that route table to virtual subnets.

In this post I will show you how use PowerShell to create a route table and routes, and associate that route table to virtual subnets.

Aidan Finn shows us how to copy files up to an Azure storage account, down from a storage account, and even between storage accounts using a free tool called AzCopy.

Learn all about new improvements to failover clustering in Windows Server 2016.

Learn how you can customize network routing for Azure virtual machines on, from, and to a virtual network.

Learn how Azure Resource Manager (ARM) uses a virtual load balancer in the Azure fabric to implement NAT rules for Azure virtual machines.

Learn about storage feature improvements in the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5.

Learn quick and easy steps for how to install and upgrade the PowerShell module for Azure and Azure Resource Manager.

Learn all about the new networking improvements in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5.