Monthly Archives: July 2012

Windows Azure Load Balancer

Posted on July 20, 2012 by admin

All public facing compute resources in Windows Azure sit behind a load balancer. It provides round robin load balancing. It does not check the health of the compute resources as that is the responsibility of Fabric Controller application. As a … Continue reading →

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Windows Azure IAAS Resources

Posted on July 15, 2012 by admin

Official name of Windows Azure IAAS offering is Windows Azure Virtual Machines(VM). This feature is still in preview mode and is expected to become generally available later this year. I will use this blog post to provide a list of … Continue reading →

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Server Software Support for Virtual Machines

Posted on July 15, 2012 by admin

With the introduction of Windows Azure Virtual Machines on June 7th questions about support comes up very often. The following article provides details about which Server Software created by Microsoft is supported to run on Azure Virtual Machines. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2721672 There … Continue reading →

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Running Custom SuseServer Linux In Windows Azure

Posted on July 13, 2012 by admin

Windows Azure Image Library provides Suse Linux image but it has very basic packages installed on it. If you want to build a customer Suse Image you can use free SuseStudio tool. This blog post describes how to build a … Continue reading →

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Linux on Windows Azure Virtual Machine

Posted on July 13, 2012 by admin

Since Microsoft released Windows Azure Virtual Machines feature in June 2012 we have an ability to run Linux in Windows Azure VM’s. We have partnered with a few Linux distribution owners to provide supported version of Linux. These Linux distributions … Continue reading →

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