Resizing VMs in Azure – sequel

Requested operation cannot be performed because storage account type ‘Premium_LRS’ is not supported for VM size ‘Basic_A1’, so the question then arises: How can I resize VM to the size that doesn’t support my storage account SKU?

How admin can restore (or try to restore) access to VM in Azure?

Do you remember the 1st time you’ve lost access to server you manage? I remember mine the server was in location around 1 km from my office, so… I wasn’t very happy but still just going to the data center, connecting with old school PS2 keyboard and VGA monitor worked fine. In current era of…

Resizing VMs in Azure

What one should know about vm resize in Azure IaaS? What are the options and limitations? How to use it from azure-cli

Managed vs unmanaged VM disks in MS Azure

Working with Azure VM, I’ve run into an issue trying to attach the disk. The command I’ve tried was simply $ az vm disk attach –vm-name azureuw-ap009 -g azureuw-ap009 –new –size-gb 10 –disk newDisk Addition of a managed disk to a VM with blob based disks is not supported. The natural question arises – what…

AWS vs Azure

AWS vs Azure. Comparison from the admin – cli user.

Azure CLI 2.0 (Part 2)

In the last post we successfully logged into Azure and created a resource group in the default subscription. This article will deal with simple virtual machine (VM) creation tasks. Azure CLI 2.0 (Part 2) Thanks to azure-cli autocompletion it’s quite easy to start with “az” and keep pushing <TAB> to learn the possibilities [1]. For me this…

Azure CLI 2.0 (Part 1)

A few days ago I started to play a little bit with Microsoft Azure. I logged into portal.azure.com and felt overwhelmed with the number of buttons, options and colours. Yes… it may be that I’m 31-years-old veteran of console. Fortunately, I’m not alone and Azure supports users requiring responsible and simple interface. Azure CLI 2.0…